Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A Bit of Inspiration




Today Connie inspired me. 

She's choosing happiness in the face of overwhelming stress and turbulence. 

Last week, I found myself in the depths of winter dreariness and I kept trying to readjust my focus and regain perspective. 

It is so encouraging to see that other people do the same; that I'm not the only one who has days where I have to actively choose happiness.  

On a lighter note, that dose of vitamin D I got from my time in the sunshine this weekend started my week in a very cheerful place!


Last night, I got to spend time with my housemate who I've been neglecting recently with all of my travels. We shared a bottle of wine over dinner and caught up on our lives and loves. 

Source: istockphoto.com via Rebecca on Pinterest


Good girlfriends are definitely one of the most valuable things in this world. You know the ones who don't mince their words, hold a mirror up to you and make you look, and get what you're trying to say without any explanation? Those are the girls to keep in your life. 

I heard a funny thing the other day from a guy - apparently, if a girl doesn't have girlfriends, it is the number one giveaway that you should run the other direction because she is either crazy or mean. 

I don't know that it's always true. 

Some girls are shy or are surrounded with crazy girls in which case, the lack of girlfriends is proof of sanity. 

I suppose though, as a general rule, it's probably pretty on point. 

What do you think?

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

A Bit of Chesterton

I find this piece by Chesterton to be lovely:

Madonna Mia
About Her whom I have not yet met
I wonder what she is doing
Now, at this sunset hour, 
Working perhaps, or playing, worrying or laughing,
Is she making tea, or singing a song, or writing,
or praying, or reading
Is she thoughtful, as I am thoughtful
Is she looking now out of the window
As I am looking out of the window?

and then 
On Love
...For romance was only the name given to a love of life which was something much larger than a life of love...

finally 
Irish Impressions
A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in.