If all of us only could...

When I opened the email from Avalon Rose Design today and saw this beautiful creation of theirs I immediately loved it, and gave it a lot of thought. The statement itself by the accomplished Thomas Edison might have been made before he changed our world forever with what he was capable of!  Now in my life I have a bucket list of things I'd like to accomplish before I'm called home, the least of is writing a letter to each member of my family telling them a memory I have of them and how very deep and forever lasting my love is! Then my thoughts turned to time and the length of my list! I'm not naive enough to think I could even begin to do all I want to before I leave this earth and honestly some days I don't feel like accomplishing anything. So, this moment in time I say to the world...I will do what I can and some of it will most assuredly astound me and I'm hoping some of those I love so dearly! ༺♥༻

The Charm of Tenderness

•٠•●♥Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ  I find nothing so endearing as to find someone who is truly tender hearted.  How could one tender hearted soul not be drawn to someone that will cry with you during the sad times and yes, during the happy times! I always carry an extra "hankie" to share!  ༺♥༻

Sleepless in Oklahoma!

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(¸.•´♥ღ♥ (¸.•`Yep, it's 4:45AM and I've had about 3 hours sleep!! And the night before I got even less. The total knee replacement (November 19th, 2012) was the best thing I've ever done...I can do things that have eluded me for years during the day, I'm a new woman! But come sundown it hurts so bad it drives me crazy. Heating pad doesn't work, ice doesn't work, Ben-gay doesn't work, Aleve doesn't work! How long does this last? Any of you who've had this surgery, please tell me it's almost OVER! I want to sleep peacefully like this baby! I walk like a youngster, I can kick like a Rockette, but I can't sleep! Woe is me! ༺♥༻

The Farmer's Wife, July, 1932

Happy Valentine's Day!

Can't let the day of "love" come and go without acknowledging how important it is...

I feel like Valentine's Day is a day of love, not just for sweethearts, but for each and every person we love in this life.  It gives us an opportunity to make sure we've passed on the love we have within us to those that share our lives.  Love encompasses so much... compassion, kindness, forgiveness, acknowledgement, laughter, thoughts, friendship, kinship and whatever it means to you! 

Being loved is just about the greatest asset we can have in this life.  But not just being loved, but in loving others.  A heart full of love soars!  I know love can hurt, too.  I've been there where I thought I'd never recover and to make it from one day to the next I had to push the pain to the deepest part of my heart.  Heart aches come in all different ways, too. Being disappointed by someone we love. The pain of a lost love is one that everyone thinks they will never recover from, but we do. To me the worst pain is that of a lost life. When someone we love is called home to Heaven it makes a scar on the heart that lasts a life time. Oh, with time we can push it further and further back, then one day a memory comes flooding in and the remembrance of that loss renews the pain.  Here come the tears! If you're like me I try to hide them 'cause everyone doesn't understand tears from years past.  We are just flesh and blood trying to live in this world and the greatest need is love!  ༺♥༻

So for this Valentine's Day I wish you LOVE!

Don't keep it for yourself...pass it on!

And for each of you a virtual hug!

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