June 2017

Flowers and Smiles

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~ Joseph Addison Flowers make me smile and this one put a big smile on my face. I have lived in my house going on 12 yearsContinue reading “Flowers and Smiles”

Words

“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” ~ Yehuda Berg

Mango Soup

Memorial Day weekend is the “unofficial” start of summer. Kids start dreaming about the end of school and summer vacation. Personally, I start dreaming about warm weather, sunshine, paddle boarding, and lots and lots of gardening. With the current weather pattern that we are in I am really dreaming about seeing the sun for longer thanContinue reading “Mango Soup”