Recovery!

Make your own recovery your first priority in your life

Robin Norwood

Save the earth

Save the whales

Save the oceans

 heck!

Save your coupons!

All good

But first- save youreslf

Everyone needs a break now and then

and that's poetiquejustis 

 Yes, my soul, find rest in God; my hope comes from him.

Psalms 62:5

The Turnaround

When I started counting my blessings, 

my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

Afraid you are not getting a piece of the pie?

Bake your own slice of life and enjoy it!

Afraid the parade is passing you by?

Grab a big bass drum and head off down your road.

You are as happy as you want to be

You have as much as you think you need

 now

is the time to be grateful

because you have it all

and that's poetiquejustis

                                Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; 
                                         His love endures forever.
                                                                   Psalm 107:1

A Little Late for Father's Day...but just in time for summer

The fragrance of the grass speaks to me

and my heart soars

Chief Dan George

I live in California now, so spring turning to summer does not mean quite what it did back East

It pretty much always looks this way out here.

I am not complaining but...

Back East, the coming of Spring meant something

Like going barefoot

Buttercups and dandelions

And my dad mowing the grass

I still cannot smell newly mowed grass without thinking of him with his old U S Navy ball cap

and a look of complete concentration as he made those rows perfect

My Dad was a renowned scientist, but this was where he put his heart -

in to his home and to his yard and in to his family.

Because we were a military family, we moved often

But Dad always made our yard special

Walt Whitman said:

I believe a leaf of grass is no less then the journey work of the stars

Dad agreed

and so do I.

Go! 

Celebrate summer!

Plant something and help it grow.

and that's poetiquejustis

The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field

Psalm 103:15

On Hold

There cannot be a crisis today

my schedule is already full

Henry Kissinger

 Places to be

People to see

Shopping to do

Work to get through

Books to be read

mouths to be fed

Laundry to wash

Oh my goodness- my gosh

 Be brave- 

be

 and today

put the world on

at least for a little while

and that's poetiquejustis

Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, He said to them, "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest."

Mark 6:31 

The Most Common Things

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way

Booker T Washington

A tiny garden

The folding of the laundry

The writing of a seemingly useless report

The holding of a hand

The drying of a tear

The most excellent moments

are often the most common

and that's poetiquejustis

Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin

Zechariah 4:10

Thoughtfully

If you realized how powerful your thoughts are

you would never have a negative thought

Peace Pilgrim

Just like a room you have painted

or a picture you have put on a wall

Your thoughts create the environment in which you live

Do your thoughts create a storm

 or a haven

think about it....

and that's poetiquejustis

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Luke 6:45

Where the stars are hidden

Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul

Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal

Pamela Vaull Starr

reach

higher

your star is there

wherever you are

 know your star

\

and be the one

who reaches

and that's poetiquejustis

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens: 

Who created all these? He who brings out the starry host one by one and calls forth each of them by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.

Isiah 40:26