I’ve been seeing websites with gorgeous compilations and collages of photographs, and was dying to be able to do it myself. So yesterday, opening up my pics in Picasa, lo and behold, the answer was right there. Did I have some fun! I can see many an hour ahead wasted spent creating glorious collages.
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Life is not a someday thing
or a one day thing.
It is a right now,
everyday thing.

Life is in the living,
every hour of every day.
~source unknown
On this beautiful Monday morning, I found this poem a powerful reminder! I’ve been thinking a lot about the future and needed the reminder that I am living now. not then.
It is [...]

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Three years ago, I started a journey. I took my first steps full of trepidation, wondering how they would be received.
Slowly I grew in confidence while all the time searching for the right thing to say.
I knew, right from the start, that I was meant to do this. It was in my blood – that [...]

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It’s been a big day and I’m thinking it might be time to pop a cork on a cold bottle of bubbles tonight.
This morning, we launched the lastest edition of The Calm Space – our sixth edition! This month, we’re talking about Dreams… and I am loving the incredible variety of ideas and perspectives that [...]

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Before me peaceful
Behind me peaceful
Under me peaceful
Over me peaceful
Around me peaceful
~Navajo Prayer

My summer holidays are over.
If you were wondering where I was, then worry no more. We’ve been resting, rejuvenating. Playing games and having fun. Lots of love and laughter. Lots of food and drink. Some sun (it’s been a rather wild and wet summer [...]

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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
-Ralph [...]

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself, any direction you choose.
Dr Seuss

Happy New Year!
Today, January 1st, like no other day, marks the first day of the rest of your life (all clichés aside).
I’m wishing you opportunities abounding, possibilities astounding and love rebounding…
(in honour of that most [...]

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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
~ Albert [...]

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Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of someone else.
~ Judy Garland

As I start another week, ushered in by violent storms right through Sunday night and into the morning, I found this quote.
Yes, you’ve probably heard it before. I have. But it is no less meaningful or right [...]

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Since I was three years old, October 15 has always been about my brother’s birthday (Happy B’day Mark!) but this year, it’s also about something bigger, more all encompassing (although, of course, no more important ;- )
I like to start my week with joy. Filling Mondays with precious inspiration helps the week start the best [...]

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