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A very warm welcome to you! Thank you so much for taking the time to visit. My purpose for having this blog is to offer a place of serenity, encouragement and to hopefully brighten your day from the hustle and bustle of life. This is a blog where everyone is welcome, and all ages are welcome. From near or far, children to the elderly, I hope to provide in my posts a chance for you to relax, smile, laugh or just take time to unwind, to live in the moment.
Hello dear friends and fellow bloggers! A very warm welcome to you all! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to come and visit me here! I really appreciate you all so much! My Monday post will publish on my blog by 7 p.m. on Sunday Eastern Standard Time.
Here are today's selections, which I hope will brighten your day!
Are we really sure the purring is coming from the kitty and not from our very own hearts? - Terri Guillemets
Purrs of Wisdom with Ingrid King
If humans count sheep to fall asleep, what do cats count? :)
Cat Wisdom 101
The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up. - Robert Tew
Healthy Place
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
Healthy Place
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach
Smart Living 365
If you have the character to hang in there when it's tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to win the game of life. - Zig Ziglar
Trvst
You are amazing simply for hanging in there and holding on, no matter how hard things get! And for moving forward no matter how scared you are or how anxious you feel. You are impressively awesome. - Karen Salmansohn
Masters in Life
Hang in there! You're going to make it; you're going to be at peace; you're going to create and love and laugh and live; you're going to do great things.
SayingImages
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. - Les Brown
Trvst
Hang in there, see you tomorrow.
Jolie Carte
Never give up! Reach inside! Give it all you got! As long as you're alive you can keep on trying! Never give up! Discover how strong you are! Don't let anyone or anything bring you down! Instead be someone who lifts others up by not giving up and inspiring others with all you've achieved! Never give up! - Karen Salmansohn
To you, the soul reading this. I know you're tired. You're fed up. You're close to breaking down. But there's strength within you...even when you feel weak. Keep going.
Karen Salmansohn
Never give up. Great things take time. - Frank Zane
HubPages
Never give up.
PictureQuotes
No matter how much it rains - there's a place in you that never stops shining. - Jane Lee Logan
Princess Sassy Pants & Co.
Don't believe everything you think.
Tiny Buddha
Happiness is letting go of what you think your life is supposed to look like and celebrating it for everything that it is. - Mandy Hale
Tiny Buddha
Don't give up. One day you'll look back and be glad you didn't.
PictureQuotes
The following photos are my own, which I took with my cellphone on Friday, April 24th. You can click on any image to see a larger view.
Both of these photos are of a display I found in a shopping mall. I love the green hues in this display, so I decided to take photographs of them.
Different mall display as the photos above. There was also a fountain and plenty of beautiful flowers! The fragrance was beautiful and I loved all the gorgeous colours!
The following video is a Just for Laughs Gag (Juste pour Rire in French). This gag was done in Europe. Enjoy! :)
Rescued chimp pauses to hug Jane Goodall before returning to the wild (The Dodo)
Dumped over divorce, cat cries for a hug (GeoBeats Animals) I love this cat!!! :)
Wonderland by Night - Bert Kaempfert
Paper Roses - Marie Osmond
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Hello dear friends and fellow bloggers! A very warm welcome to you all! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to visit me here! I really appreciate you all so much!
Just a special note...on Blogger, I have noticed that there is a delay in new blog posts in that they don't appear right away in the NEWS READER. However, the post will appear immediately on your blog itself at the time it is published. This means that your readers and followers will not know that your new post is up until between 30 minutes to a few hours later, even several hours later when it finally appears in the Blogger Reader...if it even appears at all. This doesn't happen all the time, but I just wanted to let you all know that it is something I have noticed.
And just to let you all know, I schedule my new posts to publish on Sundays and Wednesdays between 6:30 and 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. You should see my new posts by checking my blog at the above-mentioned times. I only post on Mondays and Thursdays. Thank you so much.
Here are today's picks, which I hope will brighten your day!
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Quotes Gram
Hearts that beat to the tune of kindness can change the rhythm of the world! - CJ Peterson
Big Cat Rescue
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. - Frederick Douglass
Bright Drops
Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. - Charles Kettering
Bright Drops
Happiness blooms from within.
Heather Stillufsen
The more uncluttered I lived, the more joy I found. - Zina Harrington
Artful Homemaking
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. - Hans Hofmann
The Simplicity Habit
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. - Steve Maraboli
Life Simplicity Online
Simplicity is often one of the greatest strengths. - Erik Spoelstra
Intrepid Quips
Strength is not measured by the depth of your struggle, but by the height of your resilience.
Sandjest
Remember: despite how open, peaceful and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they've met themselves. - Matt Kahn
MoveMe Quotes
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. - Henry David Thoreau
Trvst
I make myself rich by making my wants few. - Thoreau
Shannon Torrens
Tranquility...it is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
Shutterstock
Every breath we take, every step we make can be filled with peace, joy and serenity. We need only be awake, alive in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Bella Bleue
Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but finding peace deep within it.
QuotesGram
No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past. - Karen Salmansohn
Central Jersey Family Law
The following photos are my own, which I took on Friday, April 24th with my cellphone. You can click on any image to see a larger view.
I found this pothole in the parking lot of a shopping mall. Yes, Spring is a beautiful season, but there are hazards that come with it...potholes, flooding, just to name two! So please be careful when you walk, sometimes you may not see a pothole, and you can twist an ankle or worse! This happened to a woman here in Montreal that was on the news, she got hurt pretty badly.
I took this photo of the sign outside of one of my favourite housewares stores here in Montreal. Hart! The sign is in French, as pretty much all signs here in Quebec, so I will translate it for you all so that you can understand. "maison en gros" means "in bulk store"
They get their items directly from the manufacturer, which transfers to savings for customers. A great store!
I came across a little sparrow who had a nest in the top part of a bus shelter. How I found him? He was chirping away! So adorable! You can see the nest on the upper middle part of my photo and you should also be able to see the sparrow as well! (by clicking on this picture to see a larger view)
An American Eagle store in a mall.
The following photos I took of a beautiful display in a mall! These are the remainder of the photos from my last post. You can click on any image to see a larger view.
The following video is a Just for Laughs Gag (Juste pour Rire in French). Although the majority of these gags are done here in Montreal, they have traveled to different countries as well to do them, and this particular one was done in Europe. Enjoy! :)
A wallaby lost her mother. So this woman carried her in pouch for a year. :) (GeoBeats Animals)
Genius Chihuahua does bare minimum for treat :)
(GeoBeats Animals)
Monday, Monday - The Mamas and the Papas
Theme from a Summer Place - Percy Faith
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Hello dear friends and fellow bloggers! A very warm welcome to you all! Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy day to come and visit me here! I really appreciate you all so much!
Here are today's picks, which I hope will brighten your day!
We are all in this life together. Be kind!
Big Cat Rescue
Disengage from situations, people and news that don't add joy, calm and support to your life. - Georgia LaCroix
Purrs of Wisdom with Ingrid King
You do not just wake up and become the butterfly. Growth is a process. - Rupi Kaur
Out of Stress
Learn to trust the journey even if you do not understand it. Sometimes what you never wanted or expected turns out to be what you need.
Tiny Buddha
Stop asking: why is this happening to me?
Start asking: how might I learn and grow from this?
Karen Salmansohn
If it's challenging you, testing you and pushing you...it's helping you become more of who you're meant to be. - Mandy Hale
Life Life Happy
Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
My Cup of Cocoa
Like a wild flower, she spent her days allowing herself to grow, not many know of her struggle, but eventually all knew of her light. - Nikki Rowe
Floating Petals
Embrace the beauty that blooms in the simplest things.
Flowers Bloom Hope
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty. - Seneca
Reader's Digest
Sometimes your happy ending is finding the strength to move on. - Nitya Prakash
Hub Pages
The road ahead may be long and winding, but you'll make it there safe and sound.
Alamy
Hang on! There are better days ahead.
Alamy
The world you see is created by what you focus on. It's never too late to adjust your lens.
Tiny Buddha
The secret to getting ahead is getting started. - Mark Twain
7ESL
When you're hitting the wall, focus on one brick. - Anonymous
Purrs of Wisdom with Ingrid King
Just a little reminder that you don't have to make resolutions or huge decisions or big proclamations. You can just set some sweet intentions and take each day as it comes. - Victoria Erickson
Sketches in Stillness
The following photos are my own, which I took with my cellphone on Thursday, April 23rd. I came across this cross and decided to take this photo. It was a gorgeous day...cool, sunny and perfect for walking! You can click on any image to see a larger view.
This is a statue in front of a Catholic church.
Same statue as in the photo above; however, this time you can see the left tower of the church behind it, so this photo is at a slightly different angle. Note how beautiful and blue the sky is!!! As well, they are doing some work on the right tower, which is why it looks kind of ugly. :)
These last photos are ones I took in a shopping mall! Yes, they had a stunning display that I enjoyed so much and wanted to share! You can click on any image to see a larger view.
The following video is a Just for Laughs Gag (Juste pour Rire in French) done here in Montreal! Enjoy! :)
Cat visits the library so often, he now has his own library card - A Montreal Story! (CTV News) :)
Great Pyrenees walks himself to CVS (The Dodo)
Kentucky Rain - Elvis Presley
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong (original spoken intro version)
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