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“If you think that love is what you want,
you will go searching for it all over the place.
If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it
all over the place. The second approach
will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

[Source: I Believe God Wants you to Know email letter]

Thought for Today

“Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.” — Eckhart Tolle

[Source: Present Moment Reminder email letter]

Changes

An announcement on Life Through an Artist’s Eyes. This applies to that blog only. Espirational will continue as usual with a few more posts on art and creativity.

Reasons to Celebrate July

There are always reasons to celebrate life if you just look around you.

During July we have the obvious holidays we all know about, like Canada Day (1) American Independence Day (4).

But did you know that July is also:

National Anti-Boredom Month
National Blueberry Month
National Cell Phone Courtesy Month
National Hot Dog Month
National Ice Cream Month

Some of the more unique and fun ways to celebrate July include:

4 Sidewalk Egg Frying Day– Is the sidewalk really hot enough to fry an egg? Give it a try.

10 Teddy Bear Picnic Day When’s the last time you took Teddy out?

19 National Ice Cream Day (third Sunday of the month) Ice cream social anyone?

24 Amelia Earhart Day Celebrate my childhood hero and Kansas girl Amelia Earhart.

30 Father-in-Law Day Give your “Pop” (or whatever you call your father-in-law) a hug and let him know you appreciate him.

This collection of holidays was put together with help from http://holidayinsights.com

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For more information on July holidays, activities and recipes these are a few of the books available through Espirational Books:

July & August Monthly Idea Book: Ready-to-Use Templates, Activities, Management Tools, and More – for Every Day of the Month

Fourth of July Greats: Delicious Fourth of July Recipes, The Top 79 Fourth of July Recipes

Thought for Today

“Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them — and then, the opportunity to choose.” — WRIGHT MILLS [Source: http://wisdomquotes.org/freedom.php]

Thought for Today

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” ~ Lao Tzu http://www.theiflife.com/30-top-quotes-simplicity/

We Can Change the Words…

We can outlaw the symbols…

We can even try to restrict guns…

But if we really want to stop bigotry, violence and murder we must…

Change hearts and minds.

Only then we will begin to see actions change.

Only then we will see the beginning of peace….

and justice.

It all starts with one brave person…

Then another…

And another…

Who will begin?

Thought for Today

“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.” —– Rabindranath Tagore [Source: http://www.inspirational-quotations.com/faith-quotes.html]

Welcome to Our Home

We are blessed to live in a beautiful place. When we decided to leave the big, bad, violent city behind and go elsewhere for our retirement we never imagined we could find such a wonderful, peaceful, natural and affordable setting. Thank you God!

Let me take you on a tour. As you drive into the community you will notice a beautiful assortment of spring/summer flowers.

Lily Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins — Lily
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

A Perfect Rose Bud Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins — A Perfect Rose Bud
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

Purple Irises Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins — Purple Irises
Copyright 2015 by R.A. Robbins

This is our home. We enjoy lunch on our deck weather permitting. Our neighbors drive by on golf carts and wave when they go by. You can see the cow pasture behind us. No cows were out when this was taken but they do come down to the fence to say “hello.”