Monthly Archives: May 2013

Celebrating the Small Things: Spring Flowers, Finally!

We finally have flowers on our patio.  I decided we just wouldn’t have flowers this year because extremely strange weather conditions made the availability of annuals late. There have been other years I have decided not plant flowers, like the years when residents above us kept dropping cigarette butts and sometimes lit cigarettes on ourContinue reading “Celebrating the Small Things: Spring Flowers, Finally!”

Thought for Today

“It is a lovely thing to turn away from busy work to pay attention to our loved things and loved ones. We know how we wait to be told we are important. We should never wait to say or think something beautiful that will make someone’s day easier and more secure.”  — Joyce Sequichie Hifler AContinue reading “Thought for Today”

An Awakening

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Kahil Gibran from The Prophet My last semester of college I found myself in a different religion class than I had enrolled in. The instructor had left over the summer. So I thought I hadContinue reading “An Awakening”

Celebrating the Small Things: Unexpected Results

                                     Copyright 2013 by R.A. Robbins I am taking part in Rocket Squids, a “boot camp” for new Squidoo Lensmasters which includes writing weekly challenge lenses.  Recently the theme was gadgets and involved writing a product review.   The only gadget I could think of was a pizza cutter.  Bob and I brainstormed a bit and cameContinue reading “Celebrating the Small Things: Unexpected Results”

What Can We Do?

I know that as we have been watching the news coverage of the tornado damage in Moore Oklahoma we have been overwhelmed with feelings.  Sorrow, compassion, fear for the safety of loved ones, helplessness and the need to do something are all too familiar when natural disasters such as this hit.  So what can weContinue reading “What Can We Do?”