On the Cover and Critters

 Good morning to all and welcome to 

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

 and I'm also posting to City Daily Photo

We realize success is often determined by the amount of time we put into our work but,

Why not put our emphasis on the 

quality of time instead?

Featuring Dash on the cover 

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another."

William James

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

Nelson Mandela

"Instead of that airy commotion live in the water that gently cools as it flows. 

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love."

Rumi

Photo above from earlier this week before the storm.

 "Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal." Chuck Palahniuk

By Wednesday this was our view.

Just when it was beginning to feel like spring.... old man winter strikes again.

Believe in the magic of simple, unexpected gifts. 

An ordinary life can be extraordinary.

"Play to your strengths."

Smile. Snap. Share. All good words to fill your days with.

We grow and change. We get older and wiser. Let each new day bring newness. Learn something new. Share it relive it and embrace who we are a lot more than we do. Thrive. Revive. 

Unfold your own story.

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself." 

Rumi

Thank you for stopping by and gifting me with your thoughts.

Enjoy each moment and take good care of you.

Travelers on a Cosmic Journey and Loving Critters

 Everything is energy.

I'm posting to SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

 and City Daily Photo

"I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do."

Haruki Murakami

"Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you - you should control them."

Murakami

"Giving and receiving are different expressions

 of the same flow of energy in the universe."

Deepka Chopra

Below a quote by Haruki Murakami

"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive.

But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library.

And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in the fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, "I sometimes think that people's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while."

Murakami from Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

"We must remember life is fleeting. Our choices determine our outcomes. If you grab only pointless things in life while allowing the really important things in life to slip away, you won't be able to live with yourself while wallowing in thoughts of regret. 

The Really Important Things to You, in Life, 

are The Important Things."

Karen Sather

Thank you for stopping in and leaving your comments.

 Take good care of you.

LIVE. LAUGH. DREAM.

Let's live life as if 

Everything blows us away.

Art Shanty Project and Critters

 Hello everyone and welcome to a spin around Lake Harriet during the last weekend of 

"The Art Shanty Project" 

"How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand."

Frances Hodgson

My sweet adorable little Dashy (Dashiell Hammett named by my daughter) says (by his loving eyes) rise and shine everyone it's a new day.

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

 

Look at such style and grace in each step.

These little doggie boots were made for walking!

SATURDAY'S CRITTERS

and City Daily Photo

Is this ice safe?

Ice report says Yes! 21 inches thick in the village.

No worries walk on my friends.

"Why is it that when the story ends,

 we begin to feel all of it."

Rupi Kaur

 

I miss my sweet Misty girl every day.

Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul."

Frances Hodgson

"Shift your energy to what you can create."

"You got to look on the bright side even if there isn't one."

 Dashiell Hammett

"Surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time-

 and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one."

Frances Hodgson Burnett

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin

"In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats."

Wait, this is a dog!

Every dog must have his day, especially on my blog.

"You will always be lucky if you know

 how to make friends with strange cats."

Colonial Proverb

Human cats rocking out!

In closing remember those comments your parents or grandparents said over and over, stuck like glue, see even that! 

I recall my mother's quote "rise above it" often.

Reaching inside for our hidden power that's waiting to be reclaimed if anyone tries to bring you down, remember this, it's their agenda and not a limitation for you. Rise above it! Keep on truckin'.

 You have the resilience to rise above anything. Live your dreams, push your efforts, own your own beliefs. 

Your heart and soul know what matters.

Thanks for stopping by and gifting me with your comments.

Take good care of you and journey on!

To Be or Not To Be

That is the question, will these kind and welcoming posters remain on the school walls, or shall they be ripped from existence? Yet to be determined as I mentioned in my Saturday post, and that may all change at tonight's school board meeting. On the agenda it states there will be a discussion and then a vote on removal. 

Above are the posters on the chopping block.

#allchildrenmatter

All Are Welcome Here

Kindness is Always Welcome

Agree to Disagree 

and I respect your opinions.

(my favorite quote)

We will never all agree on everything, thank goodness what a boring world that would be. Image if we all loved the color red and no other colors to be worn? I don't even like the color red.

Although at tonight's meeting I will wear a shirt that Target has given to their employees to wear whenever and especially when we volunteer at Target events.

Kindness and politeness are not 

overrated at all

They're underused.

Tommy Lee Jones

Thanks for sharing time with me

 and I'll let you all know which way the board will go.

I've posted this photo before. I'm in the center and I'm sharing a volunteer event of "Feed My Hungry Children" with fellow team members from our place of work. Aren't we a sweet bunch!

Faces Around Town

 The street is my runway, the city is my playground.

 Things to see, places to go. People to snap.

I open this post with David McNally an author that gave a witty presentation at our recent District 5M6 Midwinter Convention. He's brought his recent book

 If You're Alive 

Your Mission on Earth Isn't Finished Yet.

David with his grandson.

David believes, in the transcendent nature of the human spirit. No matter our age, we can stay engaged in life in a way that ensures living is always meaningful and fulfilling.

Yes, I was one of many who bought his book.

Seeing faces that aren't actually faces.

Often called a mysterious pareidolia phenomenon.

Seeing a face that isn't really there. Can you see it?

Did you know that July 19th is observed for

 "Stick out your tongue day?"

Why not,

Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor?

Rumi

Be inspired by little things.

When you let go of who you are,

You become who you might be.

Rumi

Clowning around is the best way to learn.

Every day is a new opportunity to be the best clown you can be.

Unfold your own myth.

You are the universe in ecstatic motion. 

Rumi

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Rumi

Your boundaries are your quest.

Rumi

Thanks for stopping in and for your comments.

Take good care of you.