Reminiscence and Critter Love

and Happy Mother's Day to all mothers 

and especially all you critter mothers too!

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

Imagine

Keeping my

Eyes wide open.

What roams about your world today?

Sanctuary.

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will be as one." John Lennon

Let your heart sing! 

How about a game of

Duck, duck, goose!

When you feel you've lost that feeling of connection-

STOP!

it means it's time to reminisce all over again.

A tree says, 

A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought,

I am life from eternal life.

Be still and observe. 

Hermann Hesse Baume.

I love when memories make me feel at home.

What's your "go to" song?

If you say Yummy, Yummy I've got love in my tummy then well I know just how you're feeling!  Or Sugar, Sugar! Oh yeah.

Go ahead be the first to, Shock the world. Why not. Just Be silly!

"Whatever I like, even after a long time, I still like it."

There's a special place in my heart for ALL snowmen. Always.

and besides snowmen it's fun to just hang with your best buddy.

It keeps me humble to know exactly where I came from 

and all the hard work I put in to be here.

After looking at this piece of art,

what's your first thought that comes to mind?

Working with your hands, is a marvelous feeling.

Pleasure in the job

puts perfection in the work.

Artistotle

and

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

What The What

Whatever could these shadows be?

"Everything that is, casts a shadow."
Neil Gaiman

“You are either supporting the vision or supporting division.”

 Saji Ljiyemi

There are so many layers
 to peel back if we are to uncover the treasures 
we can unleash at the end of our brushes.
Me

"By choosing your thoughts, 
and by selecting which emotional currents

you will release and which you will reinforce,
you determine the quality of your light.

You determine the effects that you will have on others 
and the nature of the experiences of your life."
Gary Zukav

My own artwork, just playing with
 paint and the colors in my kitchen.

Thanks for stopping by enjoy your week!

National Tell a Story Day with Critters

Welcome to

 SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

and today is

 National Tell A Story Day

First I hope everyone's Easter was bunny-wonderful

and the happiest of celebrations in whatever manner you celebrate.

Live your truth.

Express your love.

Share your enthusiasm.

Dance and sing to your music.

Embrace your blessings.

Steve Maraboli

For National Tell A Story Day

Follow the Gnome

I slowly began to roam 

across the open field

feeling as if an invisible dragon had crossed this way

when out of the pond a watery foam

should appear 

yet, not a Gnome this way.

Knowing any comparisons for a Gnome 

are most inadequate without a poem

It bears repeating that this hug buddy isn't a Gnome

either, I swear.

But where?

Beneath the stars?

Finally, just out of the darkness with shimmering eyes a Gnome

like magic shining in the moonlight

out from under an unbelievable full moon-

should appear

(not a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer)

but yes, a wee little guy (they call gnome)

weaving his kindness and intelligence 

and a wee bit of shenanigans
our way.

and not to forget the characteristic of any Gnome

is like the driving force of the family dog (or cat)

in every home

each possessing their own powerful strength 

with a lovable tone

and superior capacity with a dome

of compassion and wit no matter where they roam.

and so it goes

they're most often lost incognito by way of their secretive 

offerings of happiness and vividly suggestive imaginations.

In places where only the Gnome

and the moon knows.

The End.

May your weekend be filled with happiness,

genuine spring, and all the love you can gather.

Thanks for stopping in.

Saturday Connecting and Critters

Don't you just love Sparky?

Welcome to
SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

Are you seeing bunnies around your town?

You have to leave your city of comfort and go
into the wilderness of your intuition. What you discover 
will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
Alan Alda

I just adore everything I saw while in England.

Connect with: Something, anything out
 of nothing and the ordinary. 

You were born with ease
don't mess it up with uneasiness. 

Of course Olaf is a favorite critter of mine.

Be gentle with yourself.
Observe, listen, see with eyes wide open.

"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school." Beverly Cleary 

WooHoo for the 
Farmington Fire Department 
Easter Egg Hunt

Thanks for stopping by
your visits mean everything to me 
take good care of you.

When You Want Something

What is the one thing we all desire?

Think hard now, no short paths.

The one thing I'm pretty sure we all desire is,

Wanting something.

It's just that our wants and desires differ.

"When you want something

all the universe inspires in helping you

 to achieve it."

Paulo Coelho

Be kind.
First and Always.

Be brave.

Take risks.

Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

"Close some doors today.

Not because of pride,

incapacity or arrogance.

But simply

 because they 

lead

 you nowhere."

Paulo Coelho

I want to recapture all my favorite trees.

I want to remember to look up as well as around.

Our Perspective is everything.
But still I want to be open to new things.

I want to smell 
freshly mowed grass
and
I want to get my hands into dirt
 and grow beautiful things.

I want us to all be team-players. 
In everything.

"We are here as beacons and
Guiding lights.
We are the ones that we have been waiting for."
Panache 
and
Change your energy, change your experience.


"It's the possibility of having a dream come true
that makes life interesting."
Paulo Coelho


I want the weathermen to be wrong about snow 
arriving soon.

I want to see this in 236 days
 on December 1st.

I want to stroll the streets of Minneapolis
 and capture as many reflections as humanly possible.

Keep looking up.
Always.




"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things,
and only the wise can see them."
Paulo Coelho


Thanks for stopping in to make my day brighter.
Take good care of you,

Quest For The Real Moment

Hush, child don't ask personal questions, said the lion.

That's the only kind I have, said Rain.

Gregory Maguire

Nothing we do makes us real.

That which is real makes us do.

Life can be a piece of art

a magic enchantment,

a fetching fairy tale or an adventurous story

trimmed with alluring episodes.

Erik Pevernagie

Up to this point I agree with Erik.

It's his next line that I question. 

"But it may as well be a delusive or hazardous act 

with many wildcat players

seeming to be what they are actually not."

Erik Pevernagie

What are your thoughts?

Dreams, and also, the ideas that become real.

Making something from the point of nothing,

into something.

"Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives."

Joseph Beuys

Know that you can start late,

look different, be uncertain,

and still succeed.

If you're alive you are creating.

Take good care of you.