Carpe Diem!

                                   

 

If
Rudyard Kipling (1910) If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream--and not make dreams your master; If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run-- Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!

YOU'RE THE MAN!

               HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

                   

 

High from the earth I heard a bird
Emily Dickinson (1896) High from the earth I heard a bird; He trod upon the trees As he esteemed them trifles, And then he spied a breeze, And situated softly Upon a pile of wind Which in a perturbation Nature had left behind. A joyous-going fellow I gathered from his talk, Which both of benediction And badinage partook, Without apparent burden, I learned, in leafy wood He was the faithful father Of a dependent brood; And this untoward transport His remedy for care,— A contrast to our respites. How different we are! You are the best FATHER ever!

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Summer Lovin'

101 Reasons Why I Love Summer: Flowers, flowers, flowers... (repeat flowers 98 times)  

 

10 THINGS I LEARNED FROM GARDENING

 

1. SUNSHINE AND RAIN MAKES ONE PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY FIT.

2. FEED BUT DO NOT OVERFEED.

3. SOME WEEDS AND WILDFLOWERS GROW UP TO BE BEAUTIFUL AND BENEFICIAL.

4. SHARE YOUR BOUNTY. THAT PESKY SQUIRREL USUALLY GOES AWAY WHEN HE HAD HIS FILL.

5. WORMS AND BEES ARE YOUR FRIENDS.

6. TAKE CARE OF THEM AND THEY WILL THRIVE AND PRODUCE.

7. MUSIC IS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY.

8. NO CHEMICALS, PLEASE. 

9. TO EACH HIS/HER OWN.

10. GARBAGE IN, ORGANIC AND HEALTHY PLANTS OUT.