Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

Saturday, November 12, 2016

Love Trumps Hate




Oh Donald Trump.

I was in shock, like much of the world, to discover that he won the election. I mean how in the name of all that is good, sane, decent, civilized, honest, intelligent and human did this happen? Especially at a time when our floating blue and green planet needs our care and protection the most.





Fortunately or unfortunately (depends how you look at it) I was in an unusual situation when I heard the election results.


I was hooked up to several monitors in the intensive cardiac care unit in one of our city’s most wonderful hospitals while doctors searched to find the source for the “heart attack” I appeared to have suffered last Saturday night.

Yes, this was before the election results
so I can’t blame Donald for that!




Luckily, strangely (just like life) the enzymes in the blood test that declared with almost certainty that my heart had suffered a traumatic event and been injured were proved wrong by the best tests science has to offer.

Five days later, on a sunny Wednesday afternoon
I walked out of the hospital, heart-healthy and free!




The first thing that struck me, waiting outside to be picked up by my children, was how blue the sky was. A crisp November breeze rushed up to fill my lungs and the setting sun caressed my cheek with a mother’s love.

This world is so beautiful.





I wanted to skip, jump, sing, dance.

I was healthy!
I was home.
I was loved.




My husband never left my side in the hospital (sleeping the first 2 days in a chair, and the rest in a cot) and my children spoiled me each day with their time, homemade meals, fresh clothes, board games and stories.


My epiphany: Donald Trump’s win changes nothing.

The world existed before him and the world will exist after him
because there are billions of people who know and cherish
what really matters...

* LOVE *

Family, friends, health, home, nature, the sun, moon and sky.




At home, looking out my kitchen window, it felt like I’d never left, never been terrified for my heart, my life. I watched the giant yellow maple in our backyard shower the ground with its sunshine-yellow leaves…




With everything that had just happened to me I followed the urge to be there, right under it, head turned up to watch the leaves
dance through the air on their way to the ground,
to be part of that beauty.




We are surrounded by magic…every day.






Donald Trump can’t ruin that.

I, and billions of others, won’t let him.

And whatever he does ruin, we will fix.




Continue to believe in magic and magic will continue to exist.


Thursday, December 31, 2015

A Shiny New Year - 2016!


Pop the cork on this New Year.
Drink deeply.
Let the bubbles tickle your nose.
Savour each moment.
Live!


May you be surrounded by warmth, love and light.
Happy 2016!





Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Gifts


This Christmas...
Let the world know Peace


Let the sky be full of Hope


Let our hearts overflow with Love

Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday to all my blogger friends.


Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Love Is In The Air


My usual parade of flower pictures
is being interrupted today
for a grand display
of love
~ tra-la-la ~


It took weeks (or maybe minutes) of courting
before she allowed him
to get this close
to her


In no time at all
I will be photographing
their adorable, misbehaving
flying toddlers.

I can't wait!


Saturday, February 14, 2015

Valentine's Day


A love story can begin anywhere.
Let it begin with you.

Happy Valentine's Day


Saturday, May 25, 2013

Hearts For Sale


Hearts for sale
They're worth the price


Feeling blue?
Don't think twice

Better reach out
Pick one quick


Without a heart
You'll be lovesick


A happy heart's
Like a summer day


It fills you up
Chases your cares away


Best choose wisely
One that's right for you


Nothing lasts longer
Than a heart that's true


Do be careful
Hearts can break


Always give more
Than you ever take

So, what's the price
For this precious heart?


Cherish it, so
That you'll never part

Hearts For Sale
By: Rosemary Danielis

Friday, March 1, 2013

Ice Diamonds


Although it doesn't seem possible, we received another huge snowfall yesterday.

Earlier, before the storm hit, the sun came out and with it
I felt the gentle touch of spring.


Here are my favourite clematis seed-heads wearing ice diamonds,
whose beauty is both rare and ephemeral.

"They say diamonds are forever,
Yes forever and a day,


But if diamonds are forever,
Then they must be here to stay.

I think love will live forever,
Way beyond forever's day,

It's not diamonds as eternal,
No matter what they say.

Diamonds are a fleeting fancy,
As soon they will be gone,

But if love is your true diamond,
It will ever linger on.

So if you are seeking diamonds,
And I know you always will,


Then just find the kind of diamonds,


That your life,
with love,
will fill.


"Diamonds are Forever"
By: W. Diane Van Zwol

Thursday, February 14, 2013

You Can't Hide Love


You feel it too,
Though you try to hide

This powerful feeling
Deep inside




 I know the truth
And so do you

Cardinal's love to play
Peek-a-boo :)


Happy Valentine's Day!


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