Hugs my Heart

Alone with myself
The trees bend
to caress me
The shade hugs
my heart.
~Candy Polgar~

A Promise

“Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.”

~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Hold your hands out

 

Hold your hands out over the earth as over a flame. 

 To all who love her, 

who open to her the doors of their veins, 

she gives of her strength, 

sustaining them with her own measureless tremor of dark life. 

Touch the earth, love the earth, honor the earth, 

her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; 

rest your spirit in her solitary places.

 For the gifts of life are the earth's and they are
given to all,

 and they are the songs of birds at daybreak,

 Orion and the Bear, 

and dawn seen over ocean from the beach.
~Henry Beston~

Ohana

Ohana means family 

no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten.

  ~Lilo & Stitch~

DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down. 
Don't dance so fast. 
Time is short.  
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day 
On the fly? 
When you ask "How are you?" 
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done 
Do you lie in your bed 
With the next hundred chores 
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down 
Don't dance so fast. 
Time is short. 
The music won't last.

Ever told your child, 
We'll do it tomorrow? 
And in your haste, 
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, 
Let a good friendship die 
Cause you never had time 
To call and say,"Hi!"

You'd better slow down. 
Don't dance so fast. 
Time is short. 
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere 
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day, 
It is like an unopened gift.... 
Thrown away.

Life is not a race. 
Do take it slower 
Hear the music 
Before the song is over.

The Truest Friend

A mother is the truest friend we have, 

when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; 

when adversity takes the place of prosperity; 

when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; 

when trouble thickens around us, 

still will she cling to us, 

and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, 

and cause peace to return to our hearts.  

~Washington Irving~

Colleen, 

You will live in our hearts forever.

Thank you for the gifts  you have given us.

Strength, beauty, love, and most of all

Peace.

We love you Nana.

We will miss you.

Sunrise

Climb up on some hill at sunrise.  

Everybody needs perspective once in a while, 

and you'll find it there.  

~Robb Sagendorph~