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Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

Photo, “In the North of Portugal,” by Hettie. Continue reading
I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

Photo by Picmonkey.
“I never said most of the things I said.” -Yogi Berra
Happy Star Wars Day.
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Photo courtesy of my awesome little sis. We both love baby Yoda. But I mean, who doesn’t? ♥.
(PS Sorry I meant to select my Niki Flow blog to reblog this. Oh well.)
Until 1999 I was just like everyone else. Every once in a while at a bar, at the grocery store, on a blind date, someone would say, “You know you kind of look like …I can’t think of his name.”
Yeah.
Between 1999 and around 2005, I seriously considered paying for plastic surgery. Almost every day, everywhere I went, I heard comments:
“Hey Obi-Wan!”
“Dude! Do that Jedi mind trick thing.”
“Where’s your light saber?”
“Hey dude, bad-ass fight scene (referring to the 2006 movie, Revenge of the Sith.)
“Jar Jar Sucks”
The top comment of all?”
“May the Force be with you!”
I was astonished at the range and diversity of the people who would suddenly yell these things into my face. Old women at bus stops, little kids in the grocery store, all kinds of people. Once a business man in a suit shouted at me…
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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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“The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.”
-Bryant McGill
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Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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I have only so much room on our Gems, and this poem has 109 lines. Here is the full stanza from which I pulled the lines I chose.
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Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

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Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.”
―Roy T. Bennett
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“Writing is the supreme solace.”
-W. Somerset Maugham
Cheers to a great weekend!
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I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend. ♡
This week on ¤ under1000skies.org ¤
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Photo “Happy” by StaffordGreen0, Pixabay.
“Every living thing has its own creation song, its own language, and its own story. In order to live harmoniously with the rest of creation, we must be willing to listen to and respect all of the harmonies that are moving around us.” ―Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
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Photo “Milky Way” by Skeeze, Pixabay
“We are all tied to a lineage of love that has existed since time immemorial.” ―Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
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Photo by Pexels, Pixabay
“As we seek this healing, let us do so with the knowledge that oneness is not sameness. It is the transcendence of our differences and the weaving of our diverse expressions into a tapestry that is harmonized and aligned with common purpose.” ―Sherri Mitchell, Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change
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Photo by Cocoparisienne, Pixabay
“I don’t know what it is, and I don’t want to know because it’s too precious for me. I don’t want to destroy it by knowing it. I want to be in wonder the whole time.” -Marne van den Heever
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Photo by “Black Pansy” by Cord X.
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music “Smile” by BenSound.com.
Thank you all! Cheers to a great weekend!
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I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
Here’s another light-filled ¤ Gem ¤

Photo by Frank Winkler, Pixabay
“Peace is our gift to each other.” -Elie Wiesel
I hope we have a beautiful weekend.
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