Big Picture in the Smallness

Today I am looking for comfort in the big picture by looking at the smallness of the world around me.  May the small wonders in each of our days bring joy to our hearts.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Kindness & Generosity

As the years have been added to my life my wisdom has grown to reflect a few revelations. We all have them but do we all take them to heart and give these revelations the credence they are due. Should that last sentence end in a question mark or a period? That is one of the punctuation rules that never did stick in my brain but what has stuck with me and grown is the meaning of kindness and generosity.

True kindness goes beyond a few good morning greetings or the holding of the door for the person behind you. True kindness is to speak up for someone who is not in the room when others choose to talk ill of them. You can do this by simply asking that the others end this part of the conversation and talk about a more pleasant subject matter or you can excuse yourself from the conversation and not take part. True kindness means to not express unfavorable light on someone when you would not say such words to their face. It is not finger pointing or placing blame just for diversion sake.

To be truly generous in not just the giving of gifts or trinkets wrapped in a pretty perfect bow. Generosity is something that comes from your spirit, from inside your heart.

The revelation that I have recently made about these two words, these two nouns, is that some people will learn the meaning of true kindness and generosity while others never will. It appears that some will live their entire lives being unkind to others that are around them. They will gossip and bad mouth like kindergarteners on the playground still trying to figure out where they are in the pecking order for the afternoon snack. Some of us never grow up to become kind and generous adults.

Perhaps it is just in my nature or perhaps it was part of my nurture but I know that I am a kind and generous person.

This part of my confidence still remains.

Where Did You Go?

Where did you go dear confidence? Why are you hiding from my sight? When exactly did you leave? It was just yesterday, or so it seems, that I felt confident and secure in the things that I knew and I could accomplish most tasks that were asked of me. But today I feel as if I know nothing, not even my name. Who am I without my confidence?

Ode to My Grandpa

Ode to Grandpa brave and strong who’s hard work and dedication built a family to which I am proud to belong.

So many stories over the years can be told of your spirit and triumphs at life’s every corner, each one a treasure to my heart worth gold.

Ode to my Grandpa brave and strong who’s warm smile is music to my soul and an honor to pass along.

Show & Tell

Show & Tell time! I just love show & tell time. It is where someone gets to show off a bit of their handy craft work or a really cool item that they own and tell a small story about said article.

Today I feature a widow that you have seen before and if I can find the post I will share it with you. This window is a treasure that we found at our local recycling center (a.k.a. the garbage transfer sight – you know – the dump) and the great thing about it was that it still had all of its original glass intact.

Not too long after it was cleaned up and hanging on our wall I was blessed with a very wonderful gift of the photograph of the cherry tree in the deep of winter. Since our move to Anchorage I have added two other black and white photos to accent my window.

The top left photo is from a very talented friend of a dear friend in Minnesota. It is of her back yard after a late spring snow storm that inspired me to write a few lines. Click HERE to see that post.

The bottom right photo is from the same photographer as the cherry tree, thank you Jake for always being willing to share your fine work with me. It is funny how I have a Brazilian photographs of my own that I think are fairly pleasing to the eye but I always choose to show off another’s great works.

What do you have to show & tell these days?

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P.S. it was hard to get a decent photo of the window under the lighting conditions at the time.

Hi Ho Hi Ho ~ its Monday

Photo credit goes to the interwebs

Hi ho hi ho it is off to work we go! Happy Monday to all near and far, of which most of you live far which makes me sad but this Blue Foots dance will make us all happy again.

High Five Friday for Weather

High five Friday for the daily temperature.  A big frowny face for all my Minnesota friends and family.  I am sure our day is coming, this is Alaska after all!

Share the love and the warm blanket!

Veterans Day

For photo credit click HERE

Today we honor our heroes!

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Above photo is a an example of the American aviator wings worn by the US Military  for the FLIGHT NURSE - USAAF, circa 1939-1945 (W-123)

Wings pin description: One piece construction marked acid test in raised letters. Non gold washed wings were issued post 1943. Clutch back. Flight Nurse wings were worn by women of the Army Nurse Corps who completed an eight week training course for flight nurses. Flight nurses served aboard casualty evacuation aircraft such as DC-3 aircraft.  

High Five Friday for Renewal

High five Friday for the Phoenix and the chance for renewal.  

May the luster of a new days sun
bring you a restoration of spirit and hope!

Creating

What can we do? Can we hold it back? Absolutely not, we must create. We were created to coin a thing of beauty, a song that plucks at the heart, a poem that persuades its way into the soul, and a vision that holds the splendor of heaven itself.

Creating is the gift of what we are here to do.

Yesterday I asked myself: what have I created in my lifetime that embodies the grandeur of why I am here? First and foremost the answer is son number one and son number two. Creating a healthy happy bright and loving family is one of the greatest ways for me to exemplify the glory of the gift I was given.

Today I ask myself: what will I create in my future that embodies the dignity of why I am here?

Milestone ~ 1300

It was a slow start and at times the task ahead was daunting but the love is always worth sharing. Here is to tons of love that fill your heart with joy and my 1,300th post!