You Are Beautiful
These flowers are beautiful.
They aren’t perfect. They’re a little frayed around the edges. They’re faded in spots.
But, while that makes them much more interesting, it doesn’t make them less beautiful. It might make them MORE beautiful. We see they have lived and survived sh*t and are still brightening up the world around them.
You and I are beautiful also. We’re not perfect. No one is. But we ARE beautiful.
(big hugs)
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Leave A Legacy
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I safeguarded a Momma Hornet building a series of individual nests along the edges of our interlock driveway. We installed a ‘fence’ of sorts around these nests so she remained undisturbed.
It was the kind thing to do. She wasn’t bothering us. We didn’t want her to be bothered.
And we are well aware that the bees AND the hornets are in trouble population-wise.
This Momma Hornet’s babies and grandbabies and great-grandbabies, etc. could be the difference between having hornets in the future and not having hornets.
(Hornets are VERY beneficial. They, as one small example, keep populations of other creatures like caterpillars in balance.)
Protecting this Momma Hornet could be our legacy.
Picking up a piece of plastic so a bird or an earthworm doesn’t eat it could be our legacy.
Holding a door open for someone, making their day a bit happier so they go home to their families happier and more supportive could be our legacy.
We don’t need a gazillion dollars or grand gestures to leave a legacy.
Little actions and kindnesses change the world also.
Leave a legacy today.
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Back To School Backpacks
One of the things the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I do every year is donate at least one new backpack to the Little Free Library.
Sometimes we receive these backpacks from companies as schwag or some other giveaway. Sometimes we buy the backpack.
Then we leave it, with a sign ‘Free To A Good Home’ attached to it, before 3pm on a school day at the Little Free Library closest to the nearest primary school. Kids get out shortly after that time. And the backpack is always picked up the first day by someone.
One year, I was fortunate to see the kid who picked up the backpack. The little boy had a clearly done-at-home haircut. His clothes were worn yet clean. He was carrying his books and papers in his hands.
Yes, folks, he didn’t have ANYTHING to carry his books in.
His female guardian (likely his Mom) saw the backpack first. The relief on her face was palpable. She gave it to the boy.
The boy cheered, lifting it above his head like it was a trophy he’d won.
Children like this boy is why we donate these backpacks. We changed two lives that day. And that was so simple and easy to do.
(smiles)
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Give Positive Feedback On Great Employees
One of the (many) things the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I do to make a life a little bit nicer is…
We reach out to companies whenever one of their employees helps us and/or gives us a great experience.
For example, a cashier at a grocery store put an elastic band around our container of strawberries so the berries won’t fall out.
We noted her name, kept the receipt that had the store details, the date, and time, and we contacted the store via the feedback option on their website. We told them the cashier was amazing and was a credit to their company.
This took two minutes of our time, cost nothing, and it will likely stay in that cashier’s file forever. She might be recognized in some way. Her manager might praise her. She might get promoted. It might make her smile.
And it was easy peasy to do.
(smiles)
Tell companies when their employees are amazing.
This could make someone’s day and/or life a little bit better.
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How To Retain Your Humanity During Dark Times
The world is admittedly a tire fire right now.
(big hugs)
Terrible people are doing and supporting terrible things.
It is dang easy to become less caring, less generous, less…human.
But being kind, generous, caring is what makes us amazing. Acts of kindnesses make life worth living.
And it is what makes us…us.
We need to hold onto this part of us.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I challenge each other to make at least one other person’s or one other creature’s life better every dang day.
This could be as easy as picking up a piece of trash. Or holding the door open for someone. Or buying a 99 cent can of corn and putting it in the food bank donation box. Or leaving a previously loved book in the Little Free Library. Or putting a container of water out for the birds on a hot day.
We do this and we feel…human again.
We feel that the world is a little kinder because WE made it a little kinder.
And we realize or hope we’re not alone in this.
Hold onto your humanity, my friends.
(big hugs)
It makes you you.
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Share The Joy
Recently, the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I donated my wedding dress to a charity shop.
This wedding dress was purchased second-hand from a consignment shop and our wedding occurred several decades of happiness ago. The dress is a classic, timeless style. I see similar dresses being wore by brides now.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby was the person who originally found it for me. It was everything I wanted in a dress. And I felt like a princess when I wore it.
I want another person to have that same joy, to feel beautiful, to experience that happiness.
(smiles)
Share your joy if you can. It shouldn’t diminish your happiness. It should expand it.
(big hugs)
Oh and we waited this long to donate the wedding dress because the Dear Wonderful Hubby didn’t think I truly wanted to let it go. He had seen how happy I was when I wore it and didn’t want me to lose that.
I won’t. My happiness has INCREASED, not decreased.
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Encourage Another Being Today
(We didn’t take a photo of the hornet. This is a photo of a bumblebee on the zinnia plant taken last year.)
We found a hornet in our bathroom. She had likely overwintered in the walls somewhere and then had exited the wrong way, going deeper into our home instead of leaving it.
She was moving VERY slowly. We thought she was dying.
But the Dear Wonderful Hubby gently captured her and we took her outside. We released her in the rose bed, in the sun, by some greenery.
Moments later, she flew off.
A few more moments passed and we spotted her happily flying and landing around the front yard, exploring the grasses, and terrain.
She hadn’t been dying.
She had been tired.
And discouraged.
(Because she couldn’t figure out how to escape our bathroom.)
We all need encouragement and help from time to time. This is especially true now.
If that is you today, know that you CAN survive this. You CAN tackle any bad situation. You ARE loved and you make this world a much better place.
Don’t give up!
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There Are No Tariffs On Resold Goods
One of the projects the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I have been undertaking is packing up the gently used or still-in-the-package items we will never use to take to a charity shop.
We hope that someone else can find delight in them.
Normally, we do this in the Fall/Autumn, before the busy holiday season. That way the charity shops won’t have to store them for very long.
But this year, due to the bizarre tariff war the US has instigated, we suspect there will be more people shopping at charity shops during the Spring and Summer.
Because there are NO tariffs on second hand or resold goods.
It is also great for the environment. And the goods should be less expensive.
It is a win-win-win for everyone.
(smiles)
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If You Want The Butterflies…
This massive caterpillar munched his way through half of a taller-than-me mini tomato plant. I hope to see more Laurel Sphinx moths this year due to our hosting of him.
(smiles)
One of the things I often say to fellow gardeners is “If you want the butterflies, you have to feed the caterpillars.”
Caterpillars nibble on the leaves of our plants. They make the roses in our front yard, for example, look a bit ragged. They don’t kill the rose plants (the birds and yellowjackets ensure their population doesn’t become large enough to do that) but the plants aren’t the prettiest.
And the Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are okay with that.
Because we love butterflies. And hosting caterpillars is the best way to ensure we have butterflies.
This is true of many things in life. To achieve a wonderful result, we have to deal with the ugly, the hard, the strenuous.
To have a published book, we need to write every single word. To have friends, we have to interact with people. Often. To be have a trash-free neighborhood, we have to pick up the trash.
Dream of the world you want.
Then do that hard work, the ugly work to make that dream a reality.
You can do this!
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Gardening – Gathering The Leaves
It is Fall/Autumn in my corner of the universe. The leaves on the trees are turning brilliant yellows and oranges and reds. They’re gorgeous. It is like living temporarily on a magical alien planet. (smiles)
Soon, those leaves will fall to the ground. We have HUGE trees and the leaves, if not gathered, will reach my knees or higher.
They have to be gathered. They do NOT have to be sent to the city for composting (or worse, to be placed in the landfill – grimaces).
All those leaves contain valuable minerals and nutrients. When broken down into leaf mold (a ‘composting’ process that requires merely leaves and a little bit of water and time), those minerals and nutrients can be returned to garden beds to feed vegetables, flowers and other plants.
Gather your leaves and HOARD them. They are extremely valuable. Don’t throw that wealth away!
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Claiming Cure
A proud cyborg medic meets his human match.
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Cyra has tasks to complete before she dies.
There are patients to heal, a dangerous mission to undertake, and a world to save. She doesn’t have time to entertain uninvited guests.
Especially one coldhearted cyborg medic who thinks he’s better than her.
The male might be breathtakingly handsome. His sternly set lips might be extremely kissable. And his touch might draw out a passion she didn’t think she was capable of feeling.
But he’s also a distraction, one that might doom millions of innocent beings to a painful, horrible death.
Cure isn’t emotionless. He feels…greatly. Listening to that malfunction has caused other beings pain and suffering in the past.
He refuses to allow his desires to cloud his judgment now.
His resolve is tested when he’s forced to associate with the most provoking, alluring medic in the universe.
Cyra is his genetic match, the one being in the universe he is fated to protect, touch, claim. She’s clever and beautiful, and the need to hold her almost downs his systems.
But now is not the time to indulge his great wanting.
Cure has an assignment to complete.
If he fails to accomplish his goals, everyone he cares for, including his human female, will die.
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