Year 6

I hope you’re having a beautiful day. ♡
These were the Gems in Year 6 (2020) on ¤ under1000skies ¤

Each video represents one or two weeks of daily quotes with themes.

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ Year 6 – 2020 ¤

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Gratitude Day ☼ 28 August 2022

28 August 2022

John Olander at “The Slate” in Denver, CO.

This month, John shared three new poems, the vid above, photos of beautiful friends, and two gorgeous murals at SAME Cafe and Tattered Cover Books, Denver, Colorado.

Thanks so much, Johnny O!

♥.


Defying Odds – The Mural

This beautiful mural was created by Mary Rosenburg and hangs in SAME Cafe in Denver, Colorado. The mural was created as an homage* to John and features the words from his poem “Defying Odds.”

*See John’s comment below explaining the beautiful story about this and other SAME Cafe murals. ♥.

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Newsletter Video 2.31

I hope you’re having a beautiful weekend. ♡
This week on ¤ under1000skies ¤

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(¸.•´ (¸.•` ¤ #gratitude ¤

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“Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth.”
-Sophocles

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“I acknowledge my feeling and gratitude for life by praising the world and whoever made all these things.”
-Mary Oliver

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“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
-Brene Brown

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“Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.”
-Randy Pausch

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““We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
―Alphonse Karr

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“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
―A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”
―Maya Angelou

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“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.”
―Meister Eckhart

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“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.”
―James Herriot

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“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
―Voltaire

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

Image “Vintage Shakespeare Book Illustration” by Prawny from Pixabay

“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.”

-Maya Angelou

Happy Hobbit Day.


Kindspring Eowyn Challenge III

Join us on Hobbit Day us as we journey from Bag End to Rivendell on Middle Earth in our minds while tracking self-propelled forward motion made on Earth to correspond. Each day’s journey comes with notes from The Atlas of Middle Earth by Karen Fonstad as well as daily excerpts from The Journal of Samwise Gamgee. (Sam’s Journal was only recently published. It was discovered under a hay pile in the barn by his daughter, Elanor.) There is a corresponding website for each journal that will take anyone who wishes to continue the full 28 days until journey’s end. All welcome.