Make Room For Crazy

Day 296  “Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.” “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imagination. It’s your superpower. Tapping into the dream. It’s a good thing not aContinueContinue reading “Make Room For Crazy”

Chiaroscuro

Day 288 “All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.” – Jewish Hanukah Prayer It’s Food For Thought Friday, and today’s daily prompt is candle. When I saw that I thought I would easily be able to find an inspiring passage or poem toContinueContinue reading “Chiaroscuro”

Nip It In The Bud

Day 287 “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” – Mark Twain I took my cat to the vet yesterday for her annual checkup. After her examination, the doctor told me that Ippa is “in intensely good health.” She suffered from mild asthma as aContinueContinue reading “Nip It In The Bud”

Recognize It. Accept It. Own It.

Day 284 “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.” – Jim Rohn At the beginning of this month, when I logged on to one of my first web-based email accounts, I was forced to changeContinueContinue reading “Recognize It. Accept It. Own It.”

The Joy Of Giving

Day 283 “Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.” – Steve Maraboli It’s Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Thanksgiving was originally celebrated as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvestContinueContinue reading “The Joy Of Giving”

Better Not To Know

Day 282 “Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being…there are NO limits. There are plateus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”ContinueContinue reading “Better Not To Know”

Picture Perfect

Day 280 “The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver I’m sure you’ve had a scenario in your life where youContinueContinue reading “Picture Perfect”

Might I Suggest…

Day 279 “The subconscious mind is like a suggestion box. Each day, it takes in hundreds of subtle suggestions placed there by ourselves and others. We, as humans, are highly suggestible beings. We respond to suggestions from others and from ourselves, hundreds of times each day.” – Louis P. Bauer Doesn’t today’s feature image just make youContinueContinue reading “Might I Suggest…”

Planting Patience

Day 278 “You know great things are coming when everything seems to be going wrong. Old energy is clearing out for new energy to enter. Be patient!” – Idil Ahmed Sometimes it feels like no matter how hard you try, things just don’t seem to work out, and you just don’t get the results you’ve beenContinueContinue reading “Planting Patience”

Peck. Not Speck.

Day 273 “If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts.ContinueContinue reading “Peck. Not Speck.”