Happy Halloween / Samhain

 

A year of beauty. A year of plenty.
A year of planting. A year of harvest.
A year of forests. A year of healing.
A year of vision. A year of passion.
A year of rebirth.

This year may we renew the earth.
This year may we renew the earth.

Let it begin with each step we take.
And let it begin with each change we make.
And let it begin with each chain we break.
And let it begin every time we awake.
~Starhawk~

  Reclaiming Samhain

Autumnal Face

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne~

Spirits of Things

Halloween is huge in my house

 and we really get into the 

"spirits" 

of things.  

~Dee Snider~

Pumpkin Love

Yesterday was time for the annual butchering of pumpkins!

A little crazy, a little gross, a little evil.

A LOT of fun!

Truly Live

It is only when we are aware of the earth

 and of the earth as poetry 

that we truly live.

~ Henry Beston ~

Gnomie

What could make you happier than a garden gnome?

Bless Susan's Existence Day!

Miss Susan,

Thank you for being in my life.

You are the Best Friend anyone 

could ever ask for.

You are my heart and soul.

I Love You My

Beautiful Kind Lady.

 The greatest gift that you can give to others

 is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. 

~Brian Tracy ~

Five Elements

There are five elements: earth, air, water, fire, and garlic.

Louis Diat

Bird

A bird does not sing because it has an answer.

  It sings because it has a song.  

~Chinese Prover~

Her Wish

The dance of the palm trees, 

the oceans calling, 

the first rays of sun and heaven is here.  

~Mike Dolan~

Pumpkin Picking

Pumpkin Picking at Boxx Berry Farm

2012

"My favorite word is 'pumpkin.' 

You are a pumpkin. 

Or you are not.

 I am.”
~Harrison E. Salisbury~

Last Gasp Of Summer

Goodbye Summer.

You were well loved.

Time to embrace the Fall.

Had You Known

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted 

but getting what you have, 

which once you have got it 

you may be smart enough to see

 is what you would have wanted 

had you known. 

 ~Garrison Keillor~

A Creation Of Our Mind

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, 

and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: 

Our life is the creation of our mind.

~Buddha~

Give and Take

Give and Take...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving 

is a need and an ecstasy.

 ~ Kahlil Gibran~

Vanishing of the Bees

Be Someone

Be someone who heals instead of hurts.

Be someone who loves instead of hates.

Be someone who gives instead of takes.

Be someone your children would want to be.

Real Power

Respect your efforts, 

respect yourself.  

Self-respect leads 

to self-discipline. 

 When you have both

 firmly under your belt, 

that's real power.  

~Clint Eastwood~

Unique Existence

It takes a great deal of courage to live according to your principles

 and the values that are behind them,

and to tolerate the pain, the isolation, 

and the anxiety of being different from other people,

of being creative, of living a unique existence; the courage to face death with equanimity.

To stand by one's beliefs is part of that, too.

It takes courage to stand behind one's beliefs

when they run counter to a society or a group or pressures from other people.

Love Everybody

You gotta love everybody, make 'em feel good about themselves
You gotta love everybody, make 'em feel good about themselves
You Got To! 

 Love everybody tonight!
You gotta love everybody tonight!
You gotta love everybody, 

make 'em feel good about themselves

Alllllllright!

~the Presidents of the United States of America~

Welcome

Welcome people in peace,

Show them love,

Share your joy.

Shine

Meditate.  

Live purely. 

 Be quiet. 

 Do your work with mastery. 

 Like the moon, 

come out from behind the clouds! 

 Shine.  

~Buddha~

Mosaic

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting 

and autumn a mosaic of them all.  

~Stanley Horowitz~

Opposing Miseries

 

Bittersweet October.  

The mellow, 

messy,

 leaf-kicking, 

perfect pause
between the opposing 

miseries of 

summer and winter.
  ~Carol Bishop Hipps~

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of Happy Hippie Heart.

This blog has become an outlet for us to keep us from being too dark.

It forces us to look outside of our heads and find the beauty, the funky, and the peaceful.

Thank you so much for your kind words, your love, and your support.

Our hope is that the blog makes you smile and makes you appreciate life.

From the bottom of our happy hippie hearts,

THANK YOU!

No Hurry

Nature does not hurry, 

yet everything is accomplished.

  ~Lao Tzu~

Thus It Begins

 It's time for witches, zombies, and ghouls.

Squeals, screams, and cackling.

I love October.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Happy Birthday Day!

I am so very lucky to 

have you as my my Dad.

I Love you more than words

could ever say.

Growing old is mandatory; 

growing up is optional.  

~Chili Davis~

Beautiful Tomorrow

Look not at the days gone by

 with a forlorn heart.  

They were simply the dots 

we can now connect with our present, 

to help us draw the outline

 of a beautiful tomorrow. 

 ~Dodinsky~

Pumpkin Season

Oh how we love pumpkin season.  

You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right?  

Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... 

We anxiously anticipate it every year.  

~Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer, October 2010~

Speak ~Sarah Jones~

Speak  

Speak of an aim that they dream of

Speak  of a dream that can't be done

speak of love and you have won 

speak of the world you wanna see and

speak of this and that and for all you see

speak and you will see.

~Sarah Jones~

Thanks Happy Hippie Heart  and what they let me see!

Happy Birthday Ducks!

Happiest of Happy Birthdays to you my friend!

Thank you for all that you are,

and all that you do!

You are loved more than you will ever know.

My wish for you this coming year is Peace.

Always and Forever,

Susan