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A Thanksgiving Memory...

11/21/2022

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"Bill, Diane and I doing the 'Waiting for the Turkey Dance'" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
This week I have been thinking of my first Thanksgiving living in the San Francisco Bay Area.  I cannot remember who all was there and the pictures I have only include three of us.  However, I do remember we roasted a 22 pound turkey in the oven of the wonderful Okeefe/Merritt gas range that was in my apartment.  We ate appetizers and drank the whole time the bird was in the oven.  By time dinner was served, we were all sloppily happy.  Diane made the mashed potatoes with a mixer while drunk...and I had to clean off the cupboards and counters the day after...she must of held the mixer in the air, still running and coated with potatoes.  I do remember it was a very good dinner, however.

​There so many good memories in my life such as this.  I miss my friends and wild exuberant fun we used to have.  Both Diane and Bill are no longer with us...they died within one week of each of other from cancer...each had a different kind.  Although they are missed, the memory of days such as this makes my heart smile.
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"Me, Toasted, with the Roasted Turkey" (Image Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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"Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source - a Sower of Dreams - just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true."  ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

12/31/2018

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"Jack Frost Thoughts" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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A thought for the day after Christmas...

12/26/2018

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"The Old Barn" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
“May Light always surround you;
Hope kindle and rebound you.
May your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your Heart embrace Feeling.
May Wounds become Wisdom;
Every Kindness a Prism.
May Laughter infect you;
Your Passion resurrect you.
May Goodness inspire 
your Deepest Desires.
Through all that you Reach For, 
May your arms Never Tire.” 

  ~D. Simone
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“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.”   ~Roy T. Bennett

12/18/2018

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"December Berries" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
Don't Just

"Don't just learn, experience.
Don't just read, absorb.
Don't just change, transform.
Don't just relate, advocate.
Don't just promise, prove.
Don't just criticize, encourage.
Don't just think, ponder.
Don't just take, give.
Don't just see, feel.
Don’t just dream, do. 
Don't just hear, listen.
Don't just talk, act.
Don't just tell, show.
Don't just exist, live.” 

  ~ Roy T. Bennett
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"I am God's Song"

11/30/2018

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"The Rose of Faith" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
"Faith is the expectation of the unexpected. Faith is an open and courageous heart. The arms of faith are outstretched, not in supplication but in surrender to life’s sovereign will, in submission to the ruling order of the universe, in receptivity to good. 

Faith is the power to see in the disappointment of today the fulfillment of tomorrow, in the end of old hopes the beginning of new life. Faith is the inward power to see beyond the outward signs, the power to know that all is right when everything looks wrong.

When our fondest dreams seem to go amiss and our dearest prayers seem to remain unanswered, faith is a vision of life that soars beyond the limitations of the self - these narrow senses, this imperfect reason, this drift of circumstance - and sees that our life is a part of something more than we have ever understood. In spite of all that may seem and all that may happen there is an ultimate fulfillment, that all is truly well, that all must be well. Life has an eternal meaning, we are one with the infinite, and whatever may befall us, in the all-infolding, all-unfolding ever-ness of God, life will work out for good.

When from your heart the troubled cry goes up, know that there is no cry but that somehow there is an answer. There is a love. There is a power. There is wisdom, and there is way to go. Let your heart hold fast; the way will be made plain."

​~James Dillet Freeman


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“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”   ~Roy T. Bennett

11/29/2018

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"Last Leaves of Autumn" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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"The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of Life really takes place."   ~Barbara De Angelis

11/28/2018

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"November on the St. Croix River" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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"the whole Universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty..."

11/27/2018

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"Somewhere's Road" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."

  ~John Muir
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“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!”   ~Steve Maraboli

11/26/2018

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"Lake Superior and Winter" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
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"When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there." ~Anon

11/25/2018

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"Holiday San Francisco" (Photo Courtesy of Wylddane Productions, LLC)
"I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new,
meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy."

  ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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