Love Awe Wonder…

Living Life Filled with Love, Awe and Wonder


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Seeing Life

Seeing life though eyes other than brown, green or blue could be an answer to seeing the beauty all around.

What color do you see most in life?
How vibrant are the colors that surround your life?

One particular fall, years ago, I drove down a street I had always driven down. For some reason that day was different. What I saw took my breath away. I was in awe. The vibrant colors of the fall trees were like nothing I had ever witnessed. The colors were stunning.

To this day that moment still stands out in my mind…

So it has me wondering…

Lets be in awe of the beauty that surrounds us everyday…
Live seeing life through eyes filled with vibrant colors…
Be filled with Love, awe and wonder daily…

Just thinking out load…

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What’s in the Word Pretty?

You look Pretty vs You look Pretty Good

Most of us want to hear the word pretty I would imagine… Hearing “you look pretty” is always a nice feeling.

I’ve come to realize that same word can make you wonder what was meant when it was said…

Yesterday a friend of the family said to me…
“you look pretty good”
it made me wonder
hmmm “Pretty Good”
not just good or just pretty…
But “pretty good”…

Oh the wonder of words

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They Want Fishing Yesterday!!!

“Today is yesterday’s tomorrow and there are more memories to create today…”

This is one of my favorite pictures of my beautiful children I took yesterday… Well, it seemed like yesterday. Memories captured, a yesterday cherished.

I believe it’s the memories that are priceless, not the stuff we buy our children. The Love we give them freely, the awe we create in their lives daily and the wonder we teach them to discover, are life lessons that live forever in their hearts.

I am thankful for today, blessed by my yesterday’s and excited about my tomorrow’s…

A new season In our lives, my “fisherman” will soon be teaching their little ones to fish continuing the cycle of creating memories for their children…

Memories: A gift to pass forward…
My daddy passed it forward to me.

What a beautiful gift to have received…

In Awe of my Yesterdays

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A Simpler Life

Remember when…

Life seemed so slow and simple, the winters were filled with snow and fun. We made igloos, snowman and played outside for hours, then we came inside to cookies and hot cocoa… The fresh cool air filled our lungs with life…

That first smell of Springtime, when the birds would sing and you knew “April showers would bring May flowers”…
The end of the school year was almost here… Vacation was just around the corner.

The warmth of the Summer sun was so delightful. Those days where endless,
hours of outdoor fun with friends, no school for 40 months (so it seemed) swimming, BBQ Picnics so much Joy, newness all around… Life was so simple…

Then… there was those special nights at the Drive In theater…
The family, the food, the love, those little animated dancing hotdogs on the huge screen… The speakers were placed in the window, the window was rolled up by hand…
It was a time in life that seem to stand still… A simpler time!

The colors of Fall would arrive… You knew something special was taking place. Fall and its beauty, the crisp air and all the great smells we would come to remember as adults… Apple cider, fresh donuts, grandma, baking something homemade…

Today I am thankful to say
“I can remember when…”

“Today will be tomorrow and tomorrow will be a yesterday …. Live in the moment… Create memories today for tomorrow’s yesterday’s”

In awe of life…

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Stages of Life…

What stage of life are you in?

Have you completely arrived?

Are you a beautiful butterfly yet?

Life has many stages. As we complete one stage and progress to the next, it’s nice to know someday we will fly freely…

As we continue to emerge from our cocoons, the wonder of life and all its glory is ours to experience.

We must keep moving forward in order to fly…

And as I always said to my daughter:

“Fly Baby Fly”

You are more than a moth…
You are a beautiful butterfly!

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Who have you become ?

Ive Been Asked…What Do You Do?

What I do, doesn’t make me who I am,
who I have become, makes me who I am…
And who I have become is a collection of what I have experienced in life.
My experiences tell my life story.
My story is made up from past history and decisions
Many decisions made from what I knew, or what I thought I knew at any given moment…
A moment in time when choices were made without thinking about any consequences.
Thinking there were no consequences because of youth and being invincible.
Realizing invincibility doesn’t exist.
We are who we are, because of who we were, which has made us who we have become…
Do you like who you have become?
And Instead of asking
“what do you do?”
why not ask someone
“what makes you, you?”

In Awe…

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“Drink from the Words you Say”

“Drink From The Words You Say”
(Hunter Hayes)

I’m not much of a groupie when it comes to music and their artists.
I don’t necessarily follow any one particular style of music. I enjoy all styles, from the oldies to Country (no rap or heavy metal please… )

I find myself listening or maybe I should say “hearing” the words to songs recently, more clearly. I find their meanings more interesting as I have aged, or maybe it is because of where I am in this season of my life.

As I was listening to my car radio the other day I heard a song by Hunter Hayes called Wanted… It moved me in a way that made me want to hear more of his songs. As I want to iTunes to check out the song, Wanted, I also heard another one called
” If You Told Me To” the one line that I loved was
“Drink from the words you say ”

He was speaking about the words that were spoken to him…

I love this metaphor…

“Drink from the words you say”
Learning from words and literally quenching our thirst for life!

So next time you have a chance to listen to someone’s words or listen to some great lyrics my hope is….
“You drink from the words they say!”

Love, Awe and Wonder

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I Have to Wonder

I Have to Wonder…

Life being so short and precious
Why would we ever live in any other
emotional state other than Peace, Love and Joy… Life itself being the answer…

Striving daily to see the good in life,
the joy in others and sharing the love you have, is a wonderful place to start…

Life is good, other people may be the issue! Remember not allowing others to steal your Joy benefits you…
Stay filled with Joy spread the Love!

Hug someone today…
And when you have a chance hug a dolphin!!!

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Injustice

Injustice at its Worst…
The Court System!

I have listened and watched as friends have had to Live with injustice because of New York State court system…
Frankly the legal system sickens me…

Do right, do good have morals get screwed… Shame on NY State, it’s system, the waste of time, money and the lawyers who fatten themselves from the injustice that takes place daily!!!

To anyone who has ever been helpless because of the court, lawyer or judge who plays the role of god…
I say don’t give up …
Justice will prevail!

Not quite love
Certainly not in Awe
But definitely makes me Wonder…
What the Hell!!!

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Time Flies Swiftly

I got thinking this morning about Time… The time and just how quickly it moves… And then I thought
“if time truly flies what kind of bird would it be?”

Some say the fastest bird is the peregrine falcon…. So time is like the peregrine faclon but this bird only flies the fastest when it is in a hunting dive… So they are not considered the fastest of all birds, the fastest bird overall at the speed of 106 mph is the Spine-tailed swift…

Hmmm… of all the names the fastest flying bird is a bird named Swift

So you could say:

“Time is Swift”

“Time flies as swiftly as the Spine-Tailed Swift!”

Just thinking out load ….

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