Remember

For love of country they accepted death...

~James A. Garfield

Remember
Today is a day to stop and remember. Before you set out for your BBQ, before you celebrate a Monday off from work and before you run out to the stores to catch a good sale, let us all remember for a moment what this day is all about; those hundreds of thousands of men and woman have given up their lives to serve our country. Many of them, too many, have lost their lives in the hopes of preserving ours. They had hope and dreams like we all do. They had a vision for their life just as we have a vision for ours. They gave the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. It's time to pause and remember them. It's time to send a prayer to all of our armed forces, those still with us and those who have passed, and to their loved ones. Today is not about the biggest burger you can consume or about the coupon in your pocket. Today is about those who live everyday fighting for our freedom. Maybe if we all can send some love and peace to them, from our soul to theirs, we just may be able to heal the world and bring peace to everyone. Maybe it can be them next year, home celebrating with their families and getting ready to go to a BBQ.


A beautiful video tribute to our troops from a Veteran. Please cut, paste & watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=oxBpUFtrXs8&feature=related

Carpe Diem

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.

~Chinese Proverb

Carpe Diem

What are you waiting for? More time? More money? More stability? Well guess what, times a wasting while you're busy waiting! Get up, stretch, dust yourself off and get going. No more thinking about what you want to do. Now is the time to actually do it! Life is meant to be lived, enjoyed and loved. I am sure you have a list of things you would like to do or would like to learn but you have been putting it off for some time now. Well here is your permission to start. Don't wait for the "best" time to do something for it may never come. You need to make the time for that in your life which you want to enjoy. That's what life is ultimately meant to be ~ a life filled with happiness that you create. So go on, get going! Create something magnificent.

Flow of Life

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.
~e.e. cummings

Flow of Life

Have you ever felt like you were a bystander in your own life or even felt that you were on a "holding" pattern waiting for something to take you in another direction? We are constantly waiting for life to happen to us but what we fail to realize is that it is happening, we are just not going with the flow. We bury our heads in the sand or we stick our feet so far down that we become immobile. But guess what, life hasn't stopped, we have. Well it's time to get unstuck! Let's dust off our swimmies and leap back into life, our lives again. Let's not wait for change to happen, let's be the change!

(picture taken by my sister Colleen)