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It was so nice to receive responses on my Easter musings! I really like knowing that you do indeed read and enjoy. It was especially nice to get the cards. The love flowed between us...don't you think?
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTgKA4bytzs30bQOCJZE5hBizGt92AthuB41wVykhXiLWXb6rt7pA "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." http://us.cdn4.123rf.com/168nwm/jkraft5/jkraft51203/jkraft5120300009/12471146-closeup-of-a-hummingbird-in-flight.jpg ~ Oprah Winfrey h ttps://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ2Xh3m5d6Dng4gGGw2AsYPpJWFtfzwASgHn3YPThKkbL92O-P2
Taken from Trinidad Guardian, March 2013 Here is the ad I mentioned in a previous writing. Hope you can read it (take our the magnifying glass, if you can't). For me, the advertising firm, Ross Advertising can win the Happiness Award! I started internet searching using the word, happiness, about 4 years ago when I was at a low ebb and boy can you ever find variations on a theme! Some are seeking to build a better society, while others point to individual happiness. What we perceive as happiness is as varied as all other things God has made. It's interesting, this thing happiness, that we all seek and it seems it comes through the incremental things we do. For some people it is found in hard work or having money in the bank, the smell of a baby, your pet coming to greet you, standing on a podium giving a speech,liming with the boys, the smell that comes out of the hot earth as the rain beats down, the delight in a...
I was watching, not intently, the television show where wives swap households for 2 weeks and during that period try to impart some good to the new family. In this episode, the children of one household were asked to give up one prized possession in exchange for spending time with their father. They could not. There was a great deal of "weeping and gnashing of teeth” with father at one time asking, “can you not give up 1 thing for me?” Father, at this point revealed softly with large tears plopping from eyes to cheeks that he was hurt, pained and disappointed in his children’s reaction, in particular, the behaviour of the elder. He felt he had failed in showing them that material things were less important than another human being. Somewhere during this show, the elder of the 2 children realized that she was not comfortable with her action and indeed gave up a prized possession for time with her father. I too have been devastated as I am fo...
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