Happy Birthday Shannon & Ron

Happy 11th Birthday Baby!

You Sparkle,

You Shine,

You Love,

You are so very Loved.

Keep Being your Crazy

Wonderful Self baby.

I Love you!

It's wonderful when you can bring sparkle into people's lives

 without fading away from your own true color.

 Keep the hue in you.

 ~Dodinsky~

Happy Happy Birthday Ron.

We are all so blessed to

have you as a part

of our lives.

Best of Luck today and Next Year!

We Love you!

 

Growing old is mandatory; 

growing up is optional. 

 ~Chili Davis~

Common Link

Our most basic common link is

 that we all inhabit this planet. 

 We all breathe the same air.  

 We all cherish our children's future. 

 And, we are all mortal.
~John F. Kennedy~

Belonging To Yourself

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... 

In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; 

only in the winter, in the country, can you have 

longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.  

~Ruth Stout~

Burning with Love

A joyful heart

 is the inevitable result of

 a heart

 burning with love. 

 ~Mother Teresa~

Light Within

“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 

but when the darkness sets in, 

their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~

Nobody but Myself

All my life I had been looking for something,

 and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  

I accepted their answers too, 

 though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.

  I was naïve. 

 I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which 

I, and only I, could answer.

  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging 

of my expectations to achieve a realization 

everyone else appears to have been born with: 

 that I am nobody but myself.  

~Ralph Ellison~

Delight

Joy delights in Joy!

~William Shakespeare~

Happy Christmas from our houses to yours!

Walk Forever

Happy Birthday 

Mommy....

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, 

I could walk forever in my garden. 

 ~Claudia Ghandi~

An Honor

Shall we all open our heart to be a forever home for lost pets?

~Martha Steward~

It is an honor having these wonderful girls as part of our families.  

It is humbling and uplifting.

 I am so grateful that they chose us.

Lovely Action

All the beautiful sentiments in the world 

weigh less than a 

single lovely action. 

~James Russell Lowell ~

Conspiracy of Love

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love!

Heart

The human heart feels things 

the eyes cannot see,

 and knows what the
mind cannot understand.

~Robert Valett~

Good Thoughts and Love to

all who are needing it today.

Intangible

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, 

that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance.  

It may weave a spell of nostalgia.  

Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, 

but always it will be a day of remembrance - 

a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.  

~Augusta E. Rundel~

Not Missing a Thing

I think ‘vegan’ is a beautiful word.  It is more than just a description for our diet.   I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life.  Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.

~Philip Wollen~

The Spirit of Christmas

“Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. 

All else is outward display - so much tinsel and decorations. 

For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. 

It isn't the tree not the firelight's glow. 

It's the warmth that comes to the heart.”

~Unknown~

Happy Birthday Sean!

Happy Birthday Baby!

I love you more than I could ever say.

You are growing up so fast.

Just remember ........

"Oh, take your time... Don't live too fast,
Troubles will come and they will pass.
You'll find a woman, you'll find love,
And don't forget son,
There is someone up above.

And be a simple, kind of man.
Oh be something, you love and understand.
Baby be a simple, kind of man.
Oh, won't you do this for me son,
If you can?

Forget your lust, for the rich man's gold
All that you need, is in your soul,
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.



Boy, don't you worry... you'll find yourself.
Follow your heart, lord, and nothing else.
And you can do this, oh baby, if you try.
All that I want for you my son,
Is to be satisfied.


Baby be a simple, be a simple man.
Oh be something, you love and understand.
Baby be a simple, kind of man. "

~Lynyrd Skynyrd~

The Thing With Feathers

Hope is the thing with feathers,

that perches in the soul,

and sings the tune without words,

and never stops at all.

~Emily Dickinson~

Know

Know what you want to do,

hold the thought firmly,

and do everyday what should be done,

and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

~Elbert Hubbard~

Hope

Hope begins in the dark, 

the stubborn hope that if you

 just show up and 

try to do the right thing,

 the dawn will come. 

 ~Anne Lamott~

To Yourself: Respect

Christmas gift suggestions:  

 To your enemy, forgiveness.  

To an opponent, tolerance.  

To a friend, your heart.  

To all, charity.

To every child, a good example.  

To yourself, respect.  

~Oren Arnold~

Focus

If you focus on results,

 you will never change. 

 If you focus on change, 

you will get results.
~Jack Dixon~

Time and Love

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. 

~Peg Bracken~

Peace

If we have no peace, 

it is because we have forgotten 

that we belong to each other.

  ~Mother Teresa~

Cool Beans

I bet it seems weird that we have a picture of coffee on the blog.

Well, it all started on Monday morning.  

I woke up, dragged out of bed, and checked on the blog.

Becca put up a quote by Dean Koontz, one of our favorite authors.  

I thought that was cool.

On Wednesday, she used a quote by Stephen King.

Well, now she's just showing off!  

Of course I had to issue a challenge, being who I am.

Becca, being who she is, took it.

"If you can find a Bentley Little quote for Friday's post and make it a hat trick, I'll buy coffee".

Anyone who knows anything about us knows of our unwavering loyalty to Cool Beans, 

so of course this will be Cool Beans coffee.

Who the heck is going to find a quote for a blog called "Happy Hippie Heart" from Bentley Little.

Bentley Little of twisted freaky books like Dominion and The Vanishing.

Becca.  That's who.

Friday's post.

So, I owe Becca coffee.  

The debt will be paid on Monday.

Everyone should bask  in the awesomeness of Becca.

 

Fear

 I’ve always thought that fear is man’s natural state. 

It’s why we have armies and policemen, why we band together in cities and countries, 

why we jump when there’s a loud noise nearby, why we lock our doors and leave our porch lights on at night. 

I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again:

 I don’t care who you are, if you were stripped naked and placed somewhere alone in the dark 

and you heard a sound nearby, you would not laugh, you would not be excited,

 you would not be aroused or feel romantic, you would be afraid.

 It’s the one gut reaction that we all share, 

that can be counted on to kick in at the same specific times for everyone in the world. 

It’s why jump shots in horror movies are so effective. They’re easy, they’re predictable . . . but they work. 

The fear in us is very close to the surface, and it doesn’t take much to bring it out 

That’s why horror has always been around

 and always will be around.

~Bentley Little~

Yield

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, 

which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.  

~Henry David Thoreau~

Stay as long as you want

You can't deny laughter; 

when it comes, 

it plops down in your favorite chair

 and stays as long as it wants.  

~Stephen King~

Starve

“I couldn't live where there were no trees,

something vital in me would starve.” 

~Anne Shirley~

Chaos

At the core of every ordered system,

whether a family or factory,

is chaos.

But in the whirl of every chaos

lies a strange order,

waiting to be found.

~Dean Koontz~

Thanks Papa!

Just Because

It made me smile.

Haven't had a Just Because in a while.

Love you Ducks!

Conspiracy of Love

Blessed is the season 

which engages 

the whole world

 in a 

conspiracy 

of love!  

~Hamilton Wright Mabie~