Scatter the flowers

Google photo   "If you hang out with chickens you're going to cluck, and if you hang out with eagles you're going to fly."  ~Steve Mariboli, author 🐔 "Dentists, germs, needles, milk, death, snakes, mushrooms, heights, crowds, elevators." - this is the list, in order from greatest to least, of Adrian Monk' s irrational fears. I'm not quite that irrational, but I have a fairly healthy list of phobias - claustrophobic darkness (like the kind in an inside cruise ship room or cave, anything to do with water, germs from putting my purse down in a restaurant or bathroom, mountain lions in any setting, spiders.  I think that's enough for now.  🐔 I just went up in a small plane with a very trustworthy pilot friend and then took a tour of caves - easily hit two on my list.  Now I don't have to do either again.  Ever. Am I a better person for having done that?  I doubt it.  My friends talked me into it-something about living life to the fullest, facin

  google image "Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are truly never free." ~Christine Caine The Constitution guarantees us freedom- of religion, press, peaceable assembly, etc. - all things on this earth.  But in spite of dedicating their lives to public service to protect these freedoms, even the early U.S. Presidents weren't immune from criticism &  nicknames :     George Washington - "Fake Patriot" - called this by a newspaper after he signed an unpopular treaty with Britain.  He was vital in the creation of our Constitution.     John Quincy Adams - "Mad Old Man" - but went on to fight slavery repeatedly while in office.     James Madison - "His Little Majesty" - because he was 5'4" and 100 pounds (something he had literally no control over).  Wrote the 'Federalist Papers' and helped ratify the Constitution, referred to as the "Father of the Constitution".     Willia

  Google image "Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." ~H. Jackson Brown Jr, author of Life's Little Instruction Book 💗 Did you know one of the most expensive Valentine's gifts is a $366,500 pair of sunglasses made from 60 grams of gold & 51 river diamonds?  How long would it be before you lost them or sat on them accidentally?  Yikes.   Maybe if that doesn't demonstrate one's love quite enough - there is the $647,000 pen containing 840 diamonds & over 20 carats of gemstones.  Sure, I wouldn't lose that.  💗 Or there's the ever popular dinner at the top of the Empire State Building for $10,000.  I put the link in the picture below if you are interested in buying tickets.  I mean, the view's totally worth it.  Valentine's Day makes us think of love.  Which makes me think of chocolate.   Just kidding.  Not just any chocolate - I'm much more specific - See's Bordeaux Bars.  Which... I give to my family because I

"If you stay stuck in the past season, or fixated on the future season, you will miss the one you're in."  ~Maree Dee, Christian author ⛈ Ever had a day?  A season?  Elderly parents have some health issues.  The work demands seem to be especially heavy right now.  The car needs snow tires.  Kids are being especially challenging because it's that testing time right before dinner where everyone's 'hangry'.  And, don't forget that you promised to bring cookies to that thing tomorrow.   Aaargh!  ⛈ Where can you go to get some peace?   Go for a run?  Maybe, but that seems like it would require energy to put shoes on.   Hot tub?  No thank you. The germs-ugh.  Zone out with the TV?  But how  many episodes of The Great British Baking Show will it take to make it feel better?   Bake cookies?  Yes, of course, but then there's the guilt, so maybe just eat the dough.  I kid you not, there is an article that says eating chocolate chip cookies releases serotoni