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True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending or selling out because it's safer. It's a practice that requires us to be vulnerable, get uncomfortable, and learn how to be present with people without sacrificing who we are.
Dr. Brené Brown
Belongingness entails an unwavering commitment to not simply tolerating and respecting difference, but to ensuring that all people are welcome and feel that they belong.
John A. Powell
Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Theresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don't talk anymore, they don't sit down to talk and listen. They go to the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, update their status on the internet, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories
Paulo Coelho
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say, ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.
Fred Rogers
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
When we choose to wonder about people we don’t know, when we imagine their lives and listen for their stories, we begin to expand the circle of those we see as part of us.
Valarie Kaur
We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference. We can never be too generous or too kind.
Marc Bekoff
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life — whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, and stay safe! ❤️❤️❤️
Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas
2025
When I was a kid, we had a pond in the cow pasture that grew cattails. They were magnificent and made great swords to whack each other with (I had 4 brothers and a sister). This is not a realistic scene as that pond was a mucky, muddy depression in the field that dried up in the hot summers in California. There was star thistle and tar weed. Yuck.
This is what I wished it had looked like. We can remake our memories as we wish if we have paint and the chance to play. I kept the cattails and re-invented the rest.
May you have as much fun remaking the memories you would like to see differently. I would much prefer to base this effort on the beautiful images that Flickr provides.
Has heat that cuts through the static sky
With its coffee stained clouds
Breathes an uneven dust
Will not back down even if you
Offer him a Stroopwafel
It’s a pity he’s wrecking the city
But he is honestly just a big angry kitty
Who holds grudges over hundreds of years
Senses our utterly human fears
No flood here
But flames and the Black Death may abound
Wherever Dutch monsters are found.
**The above photo was taken in Amsterdam and is a remnant of fliers left on a telephone pole, conveying secret messages and urban fairy tales that very few people pay attention to.**
**All photos and silly poems are copyrighted**
Today is the 12th day of Valentine's month of February; I must include laughter in my February love group. Laughter keeps one younger, lightens up everyone's mood, and can change the direction of the general mood from a sad, gloomy one to a happy and joyous one. Laughter in itself is a kind of medicine, one that we cannot live without!
Ernie Haase & Signature Sound - The Laughing Song [Live]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25cTs5J9P4
I Love To Laugh (Sing Along Songs)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvAGNSJ7Wrc
Laughing Song
William Blake
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
when the meadows laugh with lively green,
And the grasshopper laughs in the merry scene,
When Mary and Susan and Emily
With their sweet round mouths sing "Ha, ha he!"
When the painted birds laugh in the shade,
Where our table with cherries and nuts is spread:
Come live, and be merry, and join with me,
To sing the sweet chorus of "Ha, ha, he!"
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E.E. Cummings
We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres
With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️