Halloween

 

I think if human beings had genuine courage, 

they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

 Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? 

And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? 

Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? 

Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. P

eople would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs. 

~ Douglas Coupland~

Being Normal?

Being normal, whats that? 

Its a setting on a washing machine, no one wants to be that!

~Ashley Purdy~

Brightly-Lit

 

There is a child in every one of us 

who is still a trick-or-treater 

looking for a brightly-lit

 front porch. 

~Robert Brault~

Pumpkins

October's the month
When the smallest breeze
Gives us a shower
Of autumn leaves.
Bonfires and pumpkins,
Leaves sailing down —
October is red
And golden and brown.
~Author Unknown~

Living Messages

 

Children are 

the living messages 

we send to a time 

we will not see.  

~Neil Postman~

Almost Halloween!

Hold on, man.  

We don't go anywhere with "scary," "spooky," "haunted," or "forbidden" in the title.  

~From Scooby-Doo~

Happy Birthday Susan

You know you’re getting old;

 there are certain signs.

 I walked past a cemetery,

 and two guys ran after me

 with shovels.

~Rodney Dangerfield ~

Happy Birthday !!!

Thanks for being you,

I love you tons baby!!

Community

I nod to a passing stranger,

and the stranger nods back, 

and two human beings go off, 

feeling a little less anonymous.  

~Robert Brault~

Family Unit

A family is a unit composed not only of 

children but of men, women, 

an occasional animal,

 and the common cold.  

~Ogden Nash~

Feel Better Papa

We Love you!

Consequence Free

Wouldn't it be great, if no one ever got offended
Wouldn't it be great to say what's really on your mind
I have always said 'all the rules are made for bending'
And if I let my hair down, would that be such a crime?

I wanna be consequence free
I wanna be where nothing needs to matter
I wanna be consequence free
just sing Na Na Na Na Na Ne Na Na Na

~ Great Big Sea~

GBS

 

Live This Life

In every life, there lives a melody

In every heart, there hides a knife

Every soul shall seek its harmony

While every fist shall find a fight

And we live this life

Between wrong and right

And I feel so alive

Tonite

Every dawn, a simple symphony

In every song, a broken line

In every day, a different destiny

In every love, there lives a lie

And we live this life...

And every star, with night falls back to life

And every fire will lose its light

Every tear, you ever shed will dry

While every smile

Will burn on

So

Bright

And we live this life

Between wrong and right

And I feel

So alive

Tonite

~GREAT BIG SEA~

Successive Autumns

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love — that makes life and nature harmonize. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a pefect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. 

~George Eliot~

Learn and Enjoy

 

Apprentice yourself to nature.  

 Not a day will pass without her 

opening a new and 

wondrous world of experience

 to learn from and enjoy.
~Richard W. Langer~

Be Someone

Be someone who fights for what they believe in

Be someone who does what is right

Be someone that your children would be proud to be like you

Be someone who cares

Everybody

Everybody needs a hug.

  It changes your metabolism. 

 ~Leo Buscaglia~

Merry October

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets 

and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins.... 

Merry October! 

~Rainbow Rowell~

Be Healthy

Life is like a tree

 and its root is consciousness.

 Therefore, once we tend the root, 

 the tree as a whole will be healthy. 

~Deepak Chopra~

What It's All About

While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
~Angela Schwindt~

Successful and Happy

My boy ran in the 5k

Whatcom race for education

Yesterday.

It made Me so so happy

to see him raise money for

the local schools and

most of have he had a great time.

Good Job Sean!!!

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers

 you cannot be successful or happy.  

~Norman Vincent Peale~

The Most

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.  

~Sara Teasdale~

Followed Immediately

Autumn is a season followed 

immediately by

 looking forward to Spring.
~ Anonymous~

Odds Are

The odds are that we will probably be alright
Sure things go wrong, but I’ll take my chances
Odds are long, so why not play?
It’s a twenty-three four-to-one
That you can fall in love by the end of this song
So get up, get up
No I’m never gonna let up
So you might as well sing along
The odds are that we will probably be alright
Odds are we're gonna be alright, 

odds are we're gonna be alright tonight

~Barenaked Ladies~

Thank You

 

With arms outstretched I thank.

 With heart beating gratefully I love.

 With body in health I jump for joy. 

With spirit full I live. 

~Terri Guillemets~

 

Thank You

to everyone who 

has helped  me,

listened to me rant, 

watched me freak out,

and be the fierce Mama Lion I am.

Thank You

Thank You

Thank You

Braved The Storm Of Life

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: 

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, 

or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

~Hunter S. Thompson~

Our lives aren't easy baby, but we're never going to merely exist!

Home

Home is not where you live 

but where they understand you.  

~Christian Morgenstern~

Don't Hide

Follow your inner moonlight;

 don't hide the madness.  

~Allen Ginsberg~

Grow Young

 It takes a long time

 to grow young.

  ~Pablo Picasso~

Happy Birthday Daddy

We Love you!!!!!

A Parade

If you're being run out of town,

 get in front of the crowd

 and make it look like

 a parade. 

 ~Author Unknown~

Moonlight

Moonlight is sculpture.  

~Nathaniel Hawthorne~

Laughter

What soap is to the body,

laughter is to the soul. 

~Yiddish Proverb~

Happy Birthday Becca!

What is a friend?  

A single soul dwelling in two bodies.  

~Aristotl~

Have a wonderful birthday!  Know that you are loved and so appreciated!

Happy Birthday baby!