love and happiness
 

I am not usually such a sap but I miss home....

"wear your ruby shoes when you are far away
so you will always stay home in your heart."

just so happens I have red patent leather shoes... hmmm...:gimmehug:

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Quote
 

Author Unknown
 

joy
 

“Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself” Mahatma Gandhi

“Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa

“Joy is not in things; it is in us” Richard Wagner

“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.” Kahlil Gibran

“I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.” Ani Difranco

Joy
 

"At times Joy is elusive – she seems to disappear even as we approach her. I see her standing on a ridge covered with oak trees and suddenly the distance between us feels enormous. I am overwhelmed and wonder if the effort to reach her is worth it. Yet she waits for us. Her desire to walk with us is as great as our longing to accompany her."

J. Ruth Gendler

an Irish Toast:
 

I found this quote early this morning while I was organizing folders of information I keep and while it's a bit early for an Irish blessing, I can't help but leave it today because it's so beautiful and should be shared any day or any ocassion:

"May you always have warm words on a cool evening,
a full moon on a dark night, and a smooth road all the way
to your door."

I don't know who to credit as the author
but someone proposed a toast to me with this beautiful Irish blessing.

I had these lyrics so wrong in my head...
 

So let your light shine, deep into my home

I thought it was hole not home... projection... bad Jenn.

" What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it." - Ezra Pound

for the femme warrior
 

“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

"We must bring our own light to the darkness." -Charles Bukowski

““All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. However, a path without a heart is never enjoyable. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy—it does not make a warrior work at liking it; it makes for a joyful journey; as long as a man follows it, he is one with it.””

Carlos Castaneda

“Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance...is a celebration of that miracle.”

Martha Washington

“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”

~ Anais Nin