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The Lessons of Gratitude...

1/21/2021

"Flowers in January" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.
It turns what we have into enough, and more.
It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.
It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

~Melody Beattie

It's the Dawn of a New Day...

1/20/2021

"A Moment for Reflection" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Believe in the goodness of life.
Believe in the power of time to heal and to renew.
Believe in the power of forgiveness and gratitude.
Believe in the gift of rainbows and butterflies.
Believe in the laughter of children.

~Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ~Mark Twain

1/19/2021

"Contemplation" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

1/18/2021

"A Time to Reflect" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.

~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamor." ~Charles Stanley

1/17/2021

"Olde Barn" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." ~Albert Schweitzer

1/16/2021

"Winter Wonder" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you." ~Robert Anton Wilson

1/15/2021

"A Cold Day in January" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes." ~Soren Kierkegaard

1/14/2021

"Seagulls at Sharp Beach - Pacifica, CA" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become." ~Brooke Foss Westcott

1/13/2021

"A Walk in the January Forest" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

"Our Deepest Fear..."

1/12/2021

"Spring on My Mind" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson