Valentine...

  To you on Valentine's Day, a day that's all your own...
  May I repay in every way all the love you've shown...
  Someone who gives not to receive has something that is so rare...
  You give so much in an envelope of love; sealed with kindness and care...
  May you wish upon a star and all of your dreams come true...
  May your life be filled with happy days and things that mean the most to you...
  May you be shown by someone special that you are truly loved...
  May you be shown by someone special that you are thought the whole world of.



 Sign it by: someone special-will you be my Valentine!

Before you...

       Before you there was air everywhere but my lungs were not full. Before you there was always spring but I did not see the flowers grow. Before you I was by myself but did not feel alone, I was hollow. Before you the world was constantly going on around me and yet I was so caught up in my own life that I did not move forward with it. Before you there was sun and there was dark but I failed to appreciate a sunset, a sunrise, or the multitude of stars lighting up that darkness.
       The things in the path of my life have been there all along and yet I have been in such a rush to make it to somewhere that I passed so much by with a blind eye or head turned. I was living but I was not alive inside. Perhaps I have been searching for something that I simply knew was missing but did not know what it was; but that was all before you...

Wish you hadn't, Wish you had...

      So, you went ahead and said it anyway and now you wish you hadn't. So, you had the chance to speak your mind but you but did not and now you wish you had. So, even though advised not  to you went ahead and did it and now you wish you hadn't. When opportunity came knocking you didn't answer the door and now you wish you had.
       Regrets, we all have them for they are the stepping stones for learning from the mistakes and one should never regret something if you walked away from it with a lesson learned. Wisdom is golden and it comes from making those errors in life but try not to look back and either wish you hadn't or wish you had...

Forget about it...

    We have all heard this from the Mafia movies this phrase "forget about it." Sometimes that did not mean a good thing but at other times in life it means exactly what it says. Let us look at a few examples of this for it warrants some attention.
     For those days that you begin to ponder something that you wish you could go back and change then you need to change direction. Let it go; you can't change it, you can't paint it a pretty color or fix it so "forget about it." People need to cut the anchors that bind them. Some things in life just aren't worth fighting for or about so just "forget about it." When you look back at the end of the day and see that it was a miserable one, "forget about it" for the day is over and tomorrow you shall begin anew. Try not to allow worry to consume you for you are paying rent on something that may not even happen; we face enough stresses each day without dragging around extra baggage. Place your list by item of priority and give each one its due attention, let it take its path and you sit back and follow and as for the rest- "forget about it..."

Why didn't I? ...

        This, if analyzed to the lowest terms, is truly a two-way question for we could also ask "Why did I?" I have found that when I look back on most of my regrets it is with a "Why didn't I?" Regrets make us question ourselves, our abilities, beliefs, and looking back can be hard. We are hard on ourselves and ask why didn't I try harder? Why didn't I say what I thought more often and share what I felt more often?
         The questions we could pound ourselves with are endless. Why didn't I just give it more time? Why didn't I make more time to spend with those I love and why didn't I watch more sunsets and sunrises? Why didn't I just trust my gut and trust in myself and give it a try more often instead of choosing to sit the dance out? Regets can fester my friends and sometimes leave wide, gapping wounds for as I said this knife cuts both ways, but you let that baggage go and take hold of the reigns and steer your path toward what you are proud you did do. Take chances, everything doesn't come with a safety net but don't look back with "Why didn't I?"

Pam's evening thoughts...

First this, then that...

    When it comes to dealing with the vast amount of twists, turns, and obstacles ahead of us we approach things a bit backwards. I know people who worry of what might happen or what might not. You can not worry about what is "that", you must focus on what is "this". To waste your mental energy or place too much time worrying over things that are generally out of our control is to let "that" live rent free inside of your head.
      Place your focus on the here and now, on "this". Yesterday is gone, today is shortening, and tomorrow is a blessing so there is no time to waste on overlooking or sweeping under the rug what lays before us now. We have to arrange and fix "this" if need be for "that" is yet to be seen. Things are so easy to fall astray and off balance so try to be in order and handle things with this first, then that...

Ripple in the water...

     Our lives are like that which we see when we toss a pebble into the water. Just before the toss the water is smooth and calm just resting and waiting for us to arrive with our hopes and dreams. The waters are all great wishing wells into which we shall toss our pebble(penny) for good luck. Standing on the soft banks of the water we see the sky in the reflection of the shimmering surface and our own face there as well.
      Toss your pebble into the waters and pretend it is your pool of dreams-watch as it creates a small circular ripple in the center just enough to awake the calm. Do not be discouraged when the ripple begins so tiny for everything has a center and core and must start from there. As you watch longer and longer you will begin to see perfect circles extend outward from the center and that is your dream growing larger and larger-look how the reflection has changed now. Be not afraid to disturb the calm-toss your pebble and revel in the rewards of watching your life ripple with change just like the ripple in the water...