daily GOOD

Day 30

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. --Albert Schweitzer

Fact of the Day:
"My cousin Heidi was stricken around age 16 with a debilitating disease, which took her life about 20 years later. As the disease progressed, she became wheelchair bound and unable to easily communicate (I'm not sure of the disease -- it may have been a combination, including Parkinson's).When she was in her late 20's, she would often have her mother take her out into the front yard when the weather was nice so that she could sit in her wheelchair and watch the cars pass by. One day, my aunt was doing dishes and looked out the window to see a car pulled to the side of the road." What happened next was a brief and beautiful exchange that the author of this real-life story would never forget. [ more ]

Be The Change:
Take time to share in some way -- not only with friends and family -- but with strangers too.

Unique Play Mates

Day 29



"I Come in Peace."


Stuart Brown describes Norbert Rosing ' s striking images of a wild polar bear coming upon tethered sled dogs in the wilds of Canada ' s Hudson Bay

The photographer was sure that he was going to se e the end of his dogs when the polar bear wandered in.

The Polar Bear returned every night that week to play with the dogs.

May you always have love to share,
Health to spare, and friends that care.

More Arfs Fur You

Day 28

Arf arf arf
I likes helping Mom woof cleaning the dishes too.

Arf, Arf, Arf!!!

Day 27

Now that yur laughin' I bet you don't want to go out and hurt someone. So that's proof that cartoons contribute to
WORLD PEACE!

Have a happy day!

Whoof!!

daily GOOD

Day 26

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon. --Beck Hansen

Fact of the Day:
Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers -- but they don't spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds. That's what unhappy people do. Although people who describe themselves as happy enjoy watching television, it turns out to be the single activity they engage in less often than unhappy people, said John Robinson, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. [ more ]

Submitted by: Trishna Shah

Be The Change:
Center for Screen-Time Awareness shares information about how we can take control of electronic media in our lives, not allowing it to control us. [ more ]

Light Mail

Day 25

Daily Inspiration:  I am happy and content because I think I am. ~Alain-Rene Lesage

Today’s Affirmation: I savour this sweetness in my heart and share its magic with the world.

Today's Contemplation: Every person’s natural state is joy. When we release our attachments we find ourselves in a state of joy. All things naturally rise to their level of buoyancy; all we need to do is let go.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Light Mail

Day 24

Daily Inspiration: Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. ~J.T. Fields

Today’s Affirmation: I let my love warm the hearts of all I meet.

Today's Contemplation: Often we think of love as something we can give to some while withholding from others; love is who we are we either give it freely or withhold it from all. My relationship with my barber is no less loving than my relationship with my spouse, it is far less intimate and far less personal however it is no less loving or compassionate.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Light Mail

Day 23

Daily Inspiration: Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. ~David R. Hawkins

Today’s Affirmation: I love myself and treat myself gently.

Today's Contemplation: Gentleness, and kindness, starts with how we treat ourselves and springs from patience. I recognize always that all my dreams will not unfold in a day and the real gift I give to me is to be alert to their unfolding in this moment.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Hooman Whoofs

Day 22

Forgiveness:

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

-- Henry Ward Beecher --


Gratitude:

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

-- Joseph Addison --


Love:

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

-- Kahlil Gibran --


Peace:

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes --

Whoof for Peace

Day 21

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

-- Robert Fulghum --


There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on.

-- M.A. DeWolfe Howe --

Day 20 of NoBloPoMo

Day 20

Gratitude:

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

-- Meister Eckhart --


Forgiveness:

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."

-- Maya Angelou --


Love:

Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

-- Buddha --


Peace:

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war - as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

-- Dorothy Thompson --

3 Special Quotes

Day 19

Gratitude:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

-- Denis Waitley --

Forgiveness:

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

-- Joan Lunden--

Peace:

"If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."

-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire --

Forgiveness for Peace #2

Day 18

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.

-- Mother Teresa --

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

-- Mark Twain --

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

-- Marianne Williamson --

Forgiveness for Peace

Day 17

I've heard Mom saying that forgiveness is necessary to the path to peace and love, so I decided to give you some good forgiveness quotes today. If Peace is your goal, then Forgiveness is one of the steps to that goal.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

-- Robert Muller --

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

-- Catherine Ponder --


"Forgiveness offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind -- the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace with others -- the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future."

-- Kenneth I. Pargament & Mark S. Rye --

More Peace Fur You!!

Day 16

Whoof!! A walk in the park today makes me feel much more peaceful inside. I was all full of energy and it just kept bubbling out all over the place. Now I got rid of some of that energy so I can lay on the floor by Mom's chair and rest instead of bouncing all over the place. I feel so peaceful.

Here are some more peace quotes fur you. Maybe they are having an effect on this ol' dog... arf, arf, arf.

“Peace is its own reward.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi --



“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”

-- Unknown --



Look what I found and got Mom to help me get it fur showing to you. It was in an ad on one of the "Peace Quotes" sites I was visiting. It's a Peace Watch!!! I like that, WOOF!!

Watch Fur Peace

I sure would like to give one of these to my Mom 'Bean, arf. She would so love to have one cuz she believes "its' Time Fur Peace". The peace sign is even done in crystals and Mom likes sparkly stuff.

Peace to all of you!!

Whoof for Peace

Day 15

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

-- Mahatma Gandhi --


Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

-- Buddha --


There never was a good war or a bad peace.

-- Benjamin Franklin --

Another 3 quote for Peace

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

-- Thomas Jefferson --


Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

-- Indian Proverb --


Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,which is the goal of all evolution.Until we stop harming all other living beings , we are still savages.

-- Thomas A. Edison --

More Peace Quotes

Day 13

"Wheresoever the sun shines, the wind blows, there is an ear to hear, and a mind to conceive, there let the precepts of life be made known, let the maxims of truth be honored and obeyed, let there be music, and let there be Peace".

-- Dave Johnston, guitar player --

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --


Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

-- J. Martin Kohe --

Peaceful Parrot?

Day 12

Here are some piktures of DW, Mom's parrot. This is her new "Play Land" Mom made fur her to keep her out of trouble so have more peace around here. She gets up onto that piece of wood and chews it all up, ripping chunks out of the branch. She sure works hard on that, but then she flys over to the chinchilla cages on the other side of the room to cause trouble over there sometimes. Earlier today she was having a bit of a fight woof one of the chinchillas through the wires of the cage. Mom heard either Daisy or Sheri spitting, that's the closest I can come to describing that chinchilla sound, so she looked over and there was DW on the cage side and Mom saw a chin move away, but couldn't tell which one and there are 2 living in that cage.

Please... pray fur peace!!
We need it.
Arf!

Peace... finally

There is more peace in our home again now. Thanks to Quilly and her OC fur giving me some info on parrots to pass on to Mom. She had already done most of what was suggested, but it sure was nice fur her to hear that she was on the right path to peace woof the silly parrot. Mom hung a big piece of wood above DW's cage, and hung some 'toys' on it, rope, parrot toy, leather stip... and she moved the cage out several inches from the wall. Also attached a chop stick to the side of the cage. DW has been very busy chewing on the wood. Mom found another small piece of wood today and put it through bars in the cage so it sticks out fur DW to sit on and chew at too. Mom figures that maybe being bad was cuz of being bored, so is trying to give her stuff to do that will take her lil bird brain off the wall paper and mirror frame that she likes to chew on. Early this evening DW did fly over to the chinchilla cages and hung out there fur awhile, then when Mom went to get her she wasn't happy and flew off into the kitchen, but then she let Mom catch her. She sat on Mom's arm for the walk back to the cage and she got a peanut fur a treat fur being a good bird. Ya right, Whoof! some good bird.

It sure is nice to have peace in our home again, and no more 'earth quakes' that cause DW's cage to shake a bunch every time she chews on the mirror or wall.