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Love to Plan/ Plan to Love
One cannot plan for what LOVE does.
It always results in a thing that is more perfect
richer
deeper
and more soul satisfying than anything the mind can conceive.
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Oh Happy Day
I’ve been strolling the sunflower fields and eating handmade pasta—in my mind of course.
And picking grapes in Tuscany 🙂
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Whiskerlicious and One for Me/One for You
It’s spring—some are kicking up their paws in celebration.
It’s spring—some of us are working like dogs to support those who are kicking up their paws.
Winter blues are being shed along with…..a LOT of fur.
Eddie says, what’s a little hair among friends?
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Rosie Signs and You Look Easy!
Ahhh the French and their roses.
Poetry that climbs the walls in a red velvet dress 🙂
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A Blue Ball Jar Giveaway and Happy Happy!!
A taste of France for you today and a quote.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom. ~Marcel Proust
Thanks for making my soul blossom 🙂
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Southern Girls and New 2014 Workshops Added!
I love tulips for oodles of reasons.
They have a mind of their own and will rearrange themselves at the drop of a hat 😉
They say so much with so few petals.
They blow in your door and bring spring right along with them.
They are….
very much like ALL the great women we know!!
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Two Questions
1. If no one ever saw anything you created, would you still create?
2. Are you letting your heart have what it really, really wants?
Believe it or not, the answers for these two questions are very connected.
The first question was posed to me many years ago and at the time it was very disquieting to me. The exact question was, ‘If no one ever saw any painting you ever did…would you still paint?’ and although that person was confident of their own answer, I was silent on the matter.
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Gathering Lavender
No shoes allowed.
You must sit just so in the chair and nestle your toes in the grass
then close your eyes and listen.
You will hear the hum of happy bees working in the lavender.
Take a breath of the soft breeze filled with scents heated in the sun.
ahhhh…..lavender—is there anything that is as calming?
And what’s that other heavenly smell?
Oh yeah, it’s the roses that decided to climb the tree 😉
Open your eyes and taste of life.
It is very good.