Shop Girls

This morning my sister and I went shopping. 

We talked about politics in the food court, laughed while she was trying to dust sparkly bronzer all over my face (I think some got up my nose), oohed and aahed over clothes and dishes.

I loved it. 

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

Coco Chanel
"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."
Coco Chanel

(photos courtesy of: weheartit)

Sailing

I love the water.

  On my Dream List is: One day help build a wooden sailboat.

"I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark.

But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."

Arthur Ashe 

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death."
Morgan Freeman

"My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent 

over the long run."

Dennis Conner

Sunday

Nothing can tear us from

The grip of His mighty love

We've only glimpsed, His vast affection

heard whispers of, His heart and passion

It's pouring down...

His love is deep,

His love is wide

And it covers us

His love is fierce,

His love is strong

It is furious

His love is sweet,

His love is wild

And its waking hearts to life

The Father loves and sends His Son

The Son lays down His life for all

He calls us now, His sons and daughters

He's reaching out...

 and its waking hearts to life

He is waking hearts to life

He is waking hearts to life

(song: Furious by Jeremy Riddle

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Friendship

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”

This is a story about friendship. The lady who told me this 

story is now in her 90's. After World  War 2, there was much

 mistrust and prejudice towards the Japanese Americans. This 

woman told me that she and her husband (who had been away 

for 3 years in the military because of the war) became friends

 with a Japanese American couple. It started out with their daughters

 becoming friends, then dinner, playing cards every week,

and eventually into a life-long friendship.

She told me that people were angry and would ask them "Why are 

you friends with them?" And this is what she  said to me, "They 

were humans too. They were our friends." These two couples 

stayed friends through, sickness, distance, up until death.

I am so lucky to have heard this story. 

I hope that I will be a friend like that.

(photos courtesy of: google image) 

Brown Eyed Susan

I cannot resist, because I feel like a little girl on the night before Christmas. 

One week from today my sister Susan is coming to see me! 

I already have a list of things we will do together, restaurants 

where we will have delicious food, laughing, talking, laughing 

some more, movies, stories...the list goes on and on. 

I'm so lucky. I love her. Yep, that's it. 

(photos courtesy of: natalie garret, susan brak)

Freckles

It has been beautifully sunny for the past few days. 

This morning I only put on a light coat and by noon, I had shed it, 

rolled down my windows and let the breeze dance across my face. 

When the sun makes its appearance, so does something else...freckles. 

Yes, freckles. Across my cheeks, on my nose and up and down my arms. 

 I remember at one time being self-conscience of these 

little polka dots on my face until one day, someone said, 

"I love your freckles!"

It's funny how the things we often want to change about our faces, 

are the very things that someone else finds endearing. 

Who knows of why or what use freckles are; yet, 

I kind of like mine and would miss them very much if they were gone.”

~Owen J. McClain

Girls' Night

I am a romantic at heart. A love story on film

can make me laugh and cry but...

 I am also a girl who loves action movies. 

Last night my friend and I went to the movie

theater and did not get tickets for the newest 

romantic comedy but instead watched

the god of Thunder-Thor. Yes, Thor. 

It was the best of two worlds. It had an arrogant
man who changes to become a humble hero,
and a woman who was beautiful on the inside
as much as on the outside.

 Action and romance...

 it was a wonderful

girls' night out. 

Thank you Pristine for liking action movies too:)

(photos courtesy of:google image) 

Mother

Dedicated to my Mom. I love you.

"My mother never gave up on me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back." ~Denzel Washington

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one." 

~Jill Churchill

"There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness". 

~Andrew Jackson

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  ~Abraham Lincoln

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.  ~Tenneva Jordan

Happy Mother's Day

(photos courtesy of:weheartit) 

Celebrating Age

 This past Thursday (May 5th) was my birthday.

From the moment I woke up and received phone calls from my loved ones, walking into the classroom that was decorated with streamers, "Happy Birthday" being sung to me in Spanish, and to birthday wishes from friends around the world...I was a blessed woman.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday 

but never remembers her age."

~Robert Frost

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

"Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."  ~Mark Twain

"Do not regret growing older.  It is a privilege denied to many."  ~Author Unknown

(photos courtesy of: weheartit.com) 

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

The other night I was home studying. I noticed that it was beginning to

become dusk (the light was fading) and started to turn on the lights

in my apartment.

 I looked out the window and do you know what I saw? 

A brilliant hued, double rainbow.

 It caught me by such surprise that I stopped what 

I was doing and just stood by the window and looked at 

it. I was so glad I wasn't in the car, in a rush to 

be somewhere, that instead I actually

had that moment to simply take in 

a beautiful rainbow...

it made an ordinary

night, special. 

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