Peace Begins With Me...

Peace begins with me
Starting over and breaking free.
Peace begins with me
Opening my eyes and beginning to see.
Peace begins with me
Curious about what I am going to be.
Peace begins with me
Knowing I no longer have to flee.
Peace begins with me
Having self dignity.
Peace begins with me
Taking on more responsibility.
Peace begins with me
Because peace is being happy.
And this is why peace begins with me!

- Richard D. Marco III -

 

 I wish you my dear friend Peace
 and, a great weekend.
 With Love
Ana

A Smile Is Worth a Thousand Words

 

 ... just smile even when life gives you no reason
to do it. It will light your heart.
I wish you my dear Friend a week full of smiles.
With Love and a
Ana

"The people I'm furious with
are the women's liberationists.
They keep getting up on soapboxes
and proclaiming
women are brighter than men.
That's true, but it should be kept quiet
or it ruins the whole racket."

- Anita Loos -
 New York Times, 10 February 1974

 

 ... I simply love this quote.
I hope that it makes you smile
With Love
Ana

Reasons to Smile:

- Remember its quite true to say
       One smile is worth a dozen frowns.
- It enriches those who receive,
Without making poorer those who give.
- Among the worlds expensive things
A smile is very cheap.
- The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled.
- And after all this my dear Friend
Just give a big one: it's Weekend



... so, I wish you a wonderful one.
And, smile dear Friend
With Love
Ana *flower

The Heart

Each day I try to find a path
Between my head and my heart
Mind makes words
But heart makes you feel them
In a world of unexplained mysteries
An empty heart doesnt care
An empty heart has no love to share
A happy heart makes you sing
A happy heart makes you smile
Some are old and some new
Always making you feel something
And we wonder how and why because:
What is a heart?
A muscle that has no pain
But beats for you and the world
Over and over again...



... with Love
Ana

"When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously."
HH the Dalai Lama
 
Ana
 

"A friend is someone
 who dances with you in the sunlight and,
 walks with you in the shadows.
 Is someone
 who stays there in silence and,
 hears what you say no mater the subject.
 Walks by your side and,
 behind you and catchs if you stumble.
 A FRIEND is a gift, a treasure to keep,to honour,
 whom we give a permanent place in our hearts."



... I love you sweet friend and,
 I wish you a wonderful weekend.
Ana

Kindness to Animals

Little children, never give
Pain to things that feel and live
Let the gentle robin come
For the crumbs you save at home
As his meat you throw along
He’ll repay you with a song.
Never hurt the timid hare
Peeping from her green grass lair
Let her come and sport and play
On the lawn at close of day.
The little lark goes soaring high
To the bright windows of the sky
Singing as if t'were always spring
And fluttering on an untired wing
Oh! Let him sing his happy song
Nor do these gentle creatures wrong.



... and a blessed week sweet friend
With Love
Ana

Let Me Live
The darkness is closing in
Soon I will be gone
Why do I deserve this?
I've done nothing wrong.
I'm thrown in to a crate
I feel so cold and alone
I wonder what's next
The future is unknown.
Hundreds of others around me
Screaming for their parents
I know they will not come
They've been shot protecting us.
Everyday this happens
Innocent animals killed for money
Another day, another kill
It's not the one bit funny.
Do your self a favour
If not for you, for your future kids
Save us endangered animals
Please just let us live!
by Amy Carnes (aged 10)

Ana

When autumn wind goes running
It does some magic things.
It gives the shadows dancing shoes
It gives the bright leaves wings
When autumn wind goes running

It curls the bonfire's tail of smoke
And shares a little whispered joke
With cornstalks who delight to prattle
It turns a seed pod into a rattle
When autumn wind goes running



... I wish you a great weekend
With Love
Ana

"The past cannot be changed, the future

is still in our power. Earth is our home

so let us thank Her giving a chance to cure

the wounds we made."

... I wish you a wonderful weekend
sweet friend
With Love
Ana