Five Across, Four Down by Sharon Lynne Bonin-Pratt: Reblog

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Molly the unofficial Therapy dog by Darren Sleep

Molly among plants

Don't care for dogs? Scared of them? No matter. Give one enough time and they'll will make you fall in love with them. If you take a look first here, and secondly here, and then lastly here, you'll understand how I'm my own best example of this! Darren Sleep of Northern England, who's blog I… Continue reading Molly the unofficial Therapy dog by Darren Sleep

“Nature Cure” book review by Denzil Walton

"Nature Cure," by Richard Mabey

The healing properties and potential of nature have always been known, but are finding a “comeback” these days, with hip terms like forest bathing now being recommended from psychiatrists’ couches. The book “Nature Cure” presents a personal re-discovery of the benefits of nature. Richard Mabey is one of the UK’s finest nature writers. The first… Continue reading “Nature Cure” book review by Denzil Walton

Be Your Own Best Role Model + Learning to make homes by Elizabeth Semende

Real hand with two toy figures in which heads are replaced with toy hands.
Thank you, Ryan McGuire.

Role models can be great. They provide wisdom for how to get where we’d like to be.

Take care, though.

In our eagerness, we risk blindness and deafness to how sometimes they’re better examples of what not to do. Of the ones we love, those who are closest to us, their familiarity can feel like normalcy.

The amazing poem posted by afroliz of Zimbabwe that follows illustrates what I’m trying to say.

I believe we must all continually work to be our own best role models. Let us be lighthearted in working toward that goal. Let us be as serious as happiness when it comes to understanding which role models we might already have unwittingly chosen.

afroliz's avatarflowers and poems 🌼

In these places where women come to die

My mother’s words take turns to hit my ears:

“When you find a man, carve a home beneath his pride and

learn to make homes from nothing.”
Then I screamed: Mother this is not my home!

This is not a home!

It carries the weight of a man’s pride

the same way corpses carry the weight of tombstones​

In silence.

Mother did not listen.
She too found a home

In these places where nothing remains

but a swam of men urinating on the flame of our souls

She said: that is how we make homes out of nothing

By carrying the weight of a man’s pride

In silence.

© Elizabeth Semende

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“Yes! You!” in bhavika24’s exact words: Reblog

Black and white photo of striped tabby cat waving hello
Black and white photo of striped tabby cat waving hello
Thank Ryan McGuire of gratisography.com for showing us how cats wave hi!

Need a dose of encouragement? Blogger bhavkia24, aka Heart to soul, offers YOU generous heartfelt heaps of it on her site that shines with heart and soul! …

Heart to soul.'s avatarHeart to soul

Yes! You!
You are the subject of someone’s poetry.You are the reason for someone’s smile.You are the smell of nostalgia.You are the saviour of Your own happiness.You are the brightness of someone’s eyes and you are the glow of someone’s face.You are the hope of your mother .You are the pride of your friend and you are the dream to someone.Dream that is deep and colourful.In the world where complaints about you are dominant,appreciating your own self is really important.I want you to know that you have loved hard even when you were being hated for what you are.Know that you trusted even after being deceived by the closest of people.Know that your heart worked even when your soul was tired.Know that you still managed to smile when you were broken to bits!
So,respect yourself the most as the world will never be the same without you.You are the one…

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