Mid-Week Relief

Hello everyone!  A very warm welcome to you all! The videos I have chosen for this post are:

Tropical Birds with Orchids and Butterflies in Slow Motion with Nature Sounds

Mr. Bean - Stone in Shoe

Dog Argentino and Kitten are Best Friends

Arietta by Leroy Anderson

For the following, I am providing the link sources beneath each photo.  You just need to click on the images to see a larger view.

When we do the work on ourselves, we heal the world. - Unknown

HeartMath Institute

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but a beautiful soul will always be a beautiful soul.

Di Riseborough, Intuitive Life Strategist

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. - Morris Mandel

Healthy Place

My goal is to be filthy rich.  Rich in adventure, in health, in knowledge, in laughter, in family, and in love.

Inspire Positive Soul Sensations

After rain there's a rainbow, after a storm there's calm, after the night there's a morning and after an ending there's a new beginning. - Unknown

Inspired by Gratitude

Nothing is more important than this very moment, because in this very moment you are here.

Sketches in Stillness

Life is too short to live the same day twice.

Recharge Your Mind

There are things in life that will threaten to dim your light...use them as fuel to shine brighter!

Princess Sassy Pants & Co

Not everyday is sunshine and happiness, there will always be days filled with sadness.  We have to take the good with the bad, learn to love and appreciate all we have.  Always hope for the best but prepare for the worst, even the clouds in the sky get heavy and burst.  When life gets heavy let your tears fall like rain, let go of the pain so the sun can shine again.

Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

I think it's time to be happy again.

Karen Salmansohn

It's time to stop beating yourself up about the mistakes you've made.

Karen Salmansohn

Be patient and tough.  Some day this pain will be useful to you. - Ovid

Karen Salmansohn

Terry Runyan Art and Illustration

Raphael Vavasseur Art

Thank you all so much for visiting me here!  I always appreciate and enjoy reading your kind thoughts, which you are always welcome to share!

Monday's Mix

Hello everyone!  A very warm welcome to you all!
The videos I have chosen for this post are:

Squirrel Terrorizes Old Lady- Funny Animal Rescue

John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - Beekeeping

Cat and Seagull

Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell - Begin the Beguine Tap Dance Duet

For the following, I am providing the link sources beneath each photo.  You just need to click on the images to see a larger view.

When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you. - Unknown

Healthy Place

No storm lasts forever.

Healthy Place

There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares. - Richelle E. Goodrich

Healthy Place

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. - Lao Tzu

HeartMath Institute

Stay rooted in your inner island of serenity, don't give power to external things.

Sketches in Stillness

Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.

Recharge Your Mind

Be open to new opportunities this week.  Do not be afraid to go outside your comfort zone...stretch yourself.  Do your best.  Work hard.  You can reach your goals!

Rose Hill Designs by Heather Stillufsen

A house is not a home without a cat.

The Catington Post

Wishing you a day full of wonder and imagination.

Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

Place everything you have ever learned or discovered in a box labeled "thank you". - Jennifer Pastiloff

Karen Salmansohn

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. - Lily Tomlin

Karen Salmansohn

Anti-bullying reminder:  calling someone ugly doesn't make you any prettier.  Actually it makes you an uglier person.

Karen Salmansohn

Terry Runyan Art and Illustration

Raphael Vavasseur Art

Thank you all so much for visiting me here!  I always appreciate and enjoy reading your kind thoughts, which you are always welcome to share!

Weekend Tranquility and Depression

Hello everyone!  A very warm welcome to you all! 
Those of you who have been followers of my blog for a while now are aware that I struggle with depression, and that I have for decades now.  I have been on medication for this and it does help me.  I also had thyroid issues which only made the depression worse, but thankfully I have a good doctor and he was able to discover this and help me with it.  I just discovered something in the last month or so that I wanted to share with you all and that has been helping me tremendously.  Now I don't know if this will help others who struggle with depression, but I feel that it is worth mentioning, as it certainly can't hurt to try (so long as you don't have an allergy to tomatoes!)

For the last about over a month I have been consuming tomatoes on a very regular basis (at least 4 days a week, and sometimes several days in a row)...and it doesn't matter if the tomatoes are fresh or canned, the results are the same.  I discovered that my mood has been improved considerably, to the point that I haven't had any feelings of despair.  In other words, the tomatoes seem to be really helping me a lot with the depression.  Before I discovered this over a month ago, even with the medication I am taking for depression I would still have episodes with the depression, but now I have been feeling so much better.  The best thing about this is that I discovered this totally by accident, and that I love tomatoes, so it is a win-win situation for me.  I can eat tomatoes every day, once a day with a meal, and they have many other health benefits as well!  My favourite way to eat tomatoes is the following:  I make mashed potatoes, heat up some canned tomatoes and spoon them over the potatoes, with some of the juice as well.  It not only keeps the mashed potatoes hot much longer but even though it may be a little mushy, I don't mind at all, because it is delicious!  :) You can have this with either chicken, pork, sausages or whatever meat you have.  If you are a vegetarian, perhaps some zucchini sauteed with onions would be a lovely side for this!  You don't have to struggle with depression to get the health benefits and enjoyment from tomatoes, I am just sharing that it has helped me tremendously. I hope that by sharing this discovery it may help some people.  

The videos I have chosen for this post are:

Flight Attendant Adopts Dog who Never Stopped Waiting for her Outside Hotel

15 Million Pound Futuristic Super Yacht is Controllable by iPad

I Love Lucy - Too Much Yeast

Playful Cow Asks for Hugs from Humans

For the following, I am providing the link sources beneath each photo.  You just need to click on the images to see a larger view.

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering.  Nothing.  Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status.  We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity. - Audrey Hepburn

Healthy Place

Choose to see the possibilities.

Pause & Appreciate

Leave a sparkle trail today!

Princess Sassy Pants & Co

If you are still searching for that one person who will love you no matter what, look in the mirror.

Sketches in Stillness

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself.  No matter what anyone else thinks.

Recharge Your Mind

Life is not about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.  Choose carefully because it will either help you or hurt you.

Relax Relate Release

Nature is not a place to visit...it is home. - Gary Snyder

Children & Nature Network

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change.

Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

A person is only beautiful when their own beauty is reflecting on to others. - Tara Grady

HeartMath Institute

Love is not what you say.  Love is what you do.

Karen Salmansohn

Warning:  Overthinking can lead to sadness.

Karen Salmansohn

Don't just look to find the miracle you need.  Look for how you might become a miracle to someone else.

Karen Salmansohn

Raphael Vavasseur Art

Raphael Vavasseur Art

Thank you all so much for visiting me here!  I always appreciate and enjoy reading your kind thoughts, which you are always welcome to share!

Mid-Week Fulfillment

Hello everyone!  A very warm welcome to you all! The videos I have selected for this post are:

The Lawrence Welk Show - My Three Sons

Siamese/Ragdoll Kitten Purring

My Three Sons Phonograph

Orphaned Baby Monkey Won't Let Go of Man Who Saved Him

For the following, I am providing the link sources beneath each photo.  You just need to click on the images to see a larger view.

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles. - Virginia Satir

HeartMath Institute

I define depression as a comparison of your current reality to a fantasy about how you wish your life would be. - Dr. John Demartini

Healthy Place

You can touch someone's life just by your presence.

Sketches in Stillness

Negative energy doesn't fit in my schedule.  I have way too many positive things to do today!

Relax Relate Release

Don't judge me until you know me.  Don't underestimate me until you challenge me.  Don't talk about me until you talk to me.

Recharge Your Mind

A day begun well always ends well.  So kick start your day with a smile.  Have a fantastic day.

Ups, Downs and Roundabouts

No matter how dark it might get...hope and faith will always light a way.

Princess Sassy Pants & Co

Being defeated is a temporary condition.  Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Pause & Appreciate

We repeat what we don't repair. - Christine Langley-Obaugh

Karen Salmansohn

It's important that you spread good vibes in real life and not just online.

Karen Salmansohn

Someday we'll forget the hurt...the reason we cried...and the one who brought the pain.  We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge...but letting things unfold in their own ways and time.  After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our lives which shows how well we run the race.  So smile, laugh, forgive, believe and love over and over again.

Karen Salmansohn

Do what the best, wisest version of yourself would do.

Karen Salmansohn

Heidi Shaulis

Raphael Vavasseur Art

Thank you all so much for visiting me here!  I always appreciate and enjoy reading your kind thoughts, which you are always welcome to share!