#100happydays Day 13

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have been so busy finding my happiness I totally forgot to post pictures of it! On Monday my happy place was meeting with our Special Touch Chapter Committee. This great group of folks is planning a disability awareness day for July. I get tot lead worship and preach that day! 🙂 🙂 🙂

#100happydays Day 10

Today I am happy about the progress our artists are making through C.cada. One of our artists created the mural you see below out of chalkboard paint for our church’s coffee shop. We heard today that a project we are working on with a local hospital is once again a go (we thought sure it had stalled out) …AND… I finished my painting for next week’s art show! Now to frame it!

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True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Share Your World 2014 Week 22

Week 22????? Do you know what this means?!? We are almost half way through the year 2014!!! Folks it’s almost Christmas!!! share-your-world2 Today’s post is brought to you by Cee at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/06/02/share-your-world-2014-week-22/

I am quite sure she has already finished her Christmas shopping. Meanwhile here I am just getting started (late as usual) with week 22 of sharing my world and I think I might have totally missed week twenty-one and several of the teen weeks. My tardiness lately is giving me serious  doubts that I am going to be ready for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza or any other holiday before February of 2015. Can I have a little more time please?

So Cee asks…

Regarding animals would you prefer not having them around or having domestics pets, farm animals, or seeing them in nature or the zoo?

I love my little white dogs. They are great company  but I have often wondered what it would be like to keep chickens or goats. Everyone says I am crazy to even think it. And I probably don’t have time for them anyway. I certainly would never have time to get them Christmas, Chanukah or Kwanza gifts;  So I guess my little dogs will just have to do.Christmas presents]tmas-tree Are you a collector of anything? 

Books! Books! And more books! I use to collect rocks. That doesn’t take as much time but rocks are not as much fun to read. And few people like to get rocks for Christmas, Chanukah or Kwanza so having a book collection can be advantageous if you are pressed for time.

🙂

If you could know the answer to any question, besides “What is the meaning of life?”, what would it be?

Why is it the older you get the faster time seems to go? I mean, it seems like it should work the other way around. When I was a kid I just wanted things to go slower and Christmas always seemed years away (we didn’t celebrate Chanukah and Kwanza hadn’t even been invented). Now it seems I don’t even have time to lose the Christmas decorations in the attic before it’s time to find them again.

If you were to treat yourself to the “finer things” what would you treat yourself to?

A Christmas, Chanukah or Kwanza shopping spree is the only thing that comes to mind this week. 

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful it wasn’t Christmas, Chanukah or Kwanza. And apparently I am looking forward to starting my holiday shopping. It is rather odd where these questions take me sometimes! 🙂

#100happydays Day 2

I am on a happy kick. Like Pollyanna I am determined to find something to be glad about everyday. Really there are lots of things but here’s my happy thought for the day:

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I am really happy about the progress of the community gardens being created in back of our church. This week we went from three to eleven beds!

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.” 
― Sebastian BarryThe Secret Scripture

my inspiration for this post comes from three places:

http://justliveitblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/100-happy-days/

and

http://ajourneyinmyshoes.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/starting-something-happy/

and

100HAPPYDAYS.com

 

 

Share Your World With Cee 2014 Week 21

I am so glad to be making the time to share a corner of my world this week! When you have finished here pop on over to Cee’s place and see how her other contributors have answered the questions.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/26/share-your-world-2014-week-21/

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Here are Cee’s great questions of the week:

If you could make a 15 second speech to the entire world, what would you say?

Don’t forget about Jesus. He has never forgotten about you. Oh and eat your broccoli,  unless of course you have hematomacrosis in which case avoid broccoli (I had to add that last sentence in order for my speech to be long enough).

🙂

If you could take a photograph, paint a picture or write a story of any place in the world, what and where would it be?

I think I would choose the New England countryside. Oh wait I am already doing that…

If you had to spend one weekend alone in a single store but could remove nothing, which store would you pick?

Why Barnes & Noble of course. You don’t have to remove the product to read it!

If you were given a boat or yacht today, what would you name it?  (You an always sell the yacht later)

Tomorrow’s Nest Egg (Since I am selling it much to my daughter’s chagrin)

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so thankful for the folks who came out to the class on love last week and I am thankful to have the opportunity to teach the next class in the series tonight!

Share Your World With Cee Cee 2014 Week 19

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This post is written in response to Cee Neuner’s blog series Share Your World. It has been a few days since I have written anything so I thought this would be a good exercise to warm up my “write” brain.

When you have finished with me here go on over to Cee’s forum to see what her other contributors have said. You can find those posts here:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/12/share-your-world-2014-week-19/

Here are Cee’s questions for the week:

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I just had to answer this before I began the questions proper. The reason I could not write this weekend was because I was attending my daughter and future son-in-law’s graduation.

Amanda Lillie, graduate Northpoint Bible College

Amanda Lillie, graduate Northpoint Bible College

 

James Franklin graduate Northpoint Bible College and his future wife Melanie Lillie

James Franklin graduate Northpoint Bible College and his future wife Melanie Lillie

Now all of my kids are college grads. It was so nice to have them all together for the graduation. We made a pretty splendid party when all was said and done.

 

 

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Note how happy Amanda is to be photographed

This week I am looking forward to meeting with the Winchendon Garden Club to discuss the Ingleside project and our community garden project.

Do you prefer shopping or going to a park?

I much prefer going to the park. I was just telling my life coach the other day that I needed more time to just sit and watch the world go by. I don’t need to buy it. I just need to see it.

What is the highest score you’ve ever made in bowling?  Actual or virtually played.

Oh this is embarrassing. I think my highest score was between 60 and 70.

Name the foreign countries you’ve been to.

I have been to Mexico, England, Iceland, Ireland and Holland. I am going to tour Ireland with Amanda in the fall.

Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less.

Follow Christ. Love others.  Live your passion.

Of Funny Words and Monkeys

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This post was created in response to Cee’s weekly questions at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/28/share-your-world-2014-week-17-2/

Stop on by Cee’s blog to see how others have seen things 🙂

What are some words that just make you smile?

There are so many words that tickle my fancy but for sheer sound pleasure I love the words: syllogism, lullaby, misanthropic, palindrome, and verisimilitude

When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own?

We light both plus an oil lamp or two. We own more candles than we can count but only one or two flashlights.

What is the longest book you ever read?

The Bible

So you win a pet monkey at a fair, but this isn’t just any old monkey. It can do one trick for you whenever you want from getting a pop out of the fridge to washing your hair. What would be the trick?

My monkey is an expert at shiatsu massage.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful God gave me health for the days I needed it to accomplish His tasks. I am looking forward to a week without any more illness!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

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Howdy Everyone! I am getting back on track with blogging after my second illness in two weeks. I finished with the flu and promptly caught a horrific cold. I am on the upside of that now and would love to be enjoying the flower gardens right along with Cee. Since however it is all of 40 degrees and the only thing growing in my garden right now is frustration I thought I had better share some pretty-pretty pics from last years trip to Holland.

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan



Check out more flower photos at:

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers