Sylvia's world in thoughts and pictures
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| Get out the magnifying glass, get into your best sleuthing clothes and start prowling your environment looking for those wonderful, but sometimes elusive shadows. This fun and challenging meme is hosted each week by Tracy over at Hey Harriet! Click on the link under the blog title and sign up to play!! And, you guessed it, a week of rain!!! Hope you have fun looking back -- again! |
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| Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay |
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| Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the post title and sign up to play with us! And, yes, still another week of GRAY! So, let's see what I managed to dig out of the files for today! |
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| Long on the wave reflected lustres play. Samuel Rogers |
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| Live in rooms full of light. Cornelius Celsus |
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| Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius |
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| Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by Klaus and the Sky Watch team of Klaus, Sandy, Wren and me. Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! Click on the post title to be taken to the SWF website where you can sign up. Can you believe that Christmas will be here in nine days!!!! Ah, well, time flies whether you're having fun or not!! We've had a few HOURS of sunshine and blue skies this past week and I'm not exaggerating! Ah, but what we had when we had them they were wonderful!! So, I went looking for them as I gnashed my teeth over the current politics! Hard to believe that Will Rogers and Mark Twain are not here today! Their quotes are amazingly current or perhaps politics have always been the same game???? |
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| Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse. Will Rogers |
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Anal Glaucoma A woman calls her boss one morning and tells him that she is staying home because she is not feeling well. "What's the matter?" he asks. "I have a case of anal glaucoma," she says in a weak voice. "What the hell is anal glaucoma?" "I can't see my ass coming into work today." |
What Love means to a 4-8 year old . . Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is so worth it.
Touching words from the mouth of babes.
A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:
'Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.'
Terri - age 4
'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.'
Danny - age 7
'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss'
Emily - age 8
'Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)
'If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'
Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)
'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.'
Noelle - age 7
'Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'
Tommy - age 6
'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.
He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.'
Cindy - age 8
'My mommy loves me more than anybody
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.'
Clare - age 6
'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'
Elaine-age 5
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'
Chris - age 7
'Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.'
Mary Ann - age 4
'I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'
Lauren - age 4
'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)
Karen - age 7
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross.'
Mark - age 6
'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.'
Jessica - age 8
And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
'Nothing, I just helped him cry'
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| Got your dictionary out? You ready to play with the letters? It's that time again! ABC Wednesday is hosted by Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and the ABC team: Denise, Annelie, Leslie, Nathalie, Joyce, Donna, Helen, Roger, Troy, Jay, Barb, Gattina and me! Viva the V Day! Are you ready to Vacate the TV and Videos, stop Vacillating and staring into space with that Vacuous look in your eyes? You don't live in a Vacuum you know! You're not a Valet or a Vagabond hunting in Vain for something of Value to Validate your life! You are Valuable! So, start adding to your Vocabulary, use your Voice for a new Venue! A trip to Vienna, some rich, purple Violets, some Vintage Vino and Vermouth .... and maybe even some Vodka! Those should help you let your Voice be heard -- they certainly do mine!! And here are my Valued V words for the V as in Victory Day!! V is for Veggies! Lots of them for you Vegans! And V is for Valley, Vase, Volunteers, a Viable View, and Violets |
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| Oh, and all the photos except for the Volunteer sign and the Valley are mine! Enjoy your week! |
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| That's My World is hosted each week by Klaus and the My World team, Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Fishing Guy and me. Join us and share your world with others from all over Our World! Just click on the post title, read the rules, sign up and play with us! So! How is your world this week? Have you taken time to see the beauty there? What is it about your world that makes you smile or laugh or feel grateful for? Wish I could say that we've had lots of sun and warm temps, but I'd be lying if I did! So, as with some of the other memes I participate in, I'm having to look backwards for the beauty of My World!! And, of course, a little wisdom from Will Rogers!! He and Mark Twain did manage to see Our World with great clarity and humor! We could all use that! |
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| Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. Will Rogers |
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| I'm dolled up, doing laundry in the yard for this guy to take pics for for a special edition -- of what? Little Woman's Day on the Prairie? |
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| Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! We'll be waiting for you!! |
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| Hey, remember last week when I was wishing Mojo was back home? Well, she's back, but this weekend Stella and her Mom came to visit us! What's with this back and forth stuff??? I said I missed Mojo -- not everybody else!! Ah, well, Mojo's Dad is happy -- I'm not so sure about how happy Mojo is though!!! Hee hee! She has to share her Dad and the house!!!See the look on her face? Know what she's saying? "Why me? Wasn't Sam and his Mom enough???" Ha Ha Ha!! Guess not, huh!!!! |
