Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Humor me ^_^

If you see a fork on the road, look for the plate of cake.
Yeah! you can have the cake and eat it too!!!
It might not be your favorite but keep an open mind.
Sometimes, great good can come from life's worsts.
Do you believe in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
It's not practical, I know! Who would leave a pot of gold there?
And see? I don't think there's an end to a rainbow.
So you know what? Take what life hands to you, a pot of gold or a pot of misery.
It doesn't matter. The important thing is that you enjoy the ride on the rainbow.
You can be up and you can be down just enjoy each time.
Like I said, " keep an open mind."
All life's about is a matter of choice.....
----NonetteSummer

The Rules for Being Human


1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a fulltime informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error, experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately "works."

4. A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive there are lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better than "here." When your "there" has become a "here" you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you. The answer to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. This will often be forgotten, only to be remembered again.

-----Cherie Carter-Scott

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Smell the flowers....


I took a picture of this flower one day last summer when we drove up north and took a walk with Daisy in one of our haunting spots. It was a great Sunday morning and no one else was there except us. The trails are partly groomed and winds down around a reservoir into the woods and out again to a water dam. As we walked along the path we could here the birds and the occasional rustles of the tree branches when the winds stirred it into a swaying dance to go along with the bird's chirping music. These might be wildflowers but they created a beautiful border along the path where we walked and grew in wild abandon with no one taking care of them but Mother Nature herself. No matter where life takes you don't be afraid to show and share the beauty that's uniquely yours. Be proud, be courageous and no matter how rough life might get...don't forget to smell the flowers.

Monday, July 13, 2009

I hate Mondays. Tuesday is too long and a drag. Wednesday is a tease. Thursday is almost the weekend. Friday is too short to have fun and the weekends are never enough.
----Nonette Summer

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Never Grow Old

"Love can never grow old,
Locks may lose their brown and gold,
Cheeks may fade and hollow grow,
But the hearts that love will know
Never winter's frost and chill,
Summer's warmth is in them still."
---- Anonymous

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Sail Boston 2009

The Bluenose
Bluenose was a famous fishing and racing schooner designed by William J. Roué, built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and launched in 1921.
Bluenose II was built from the same plans and launched from the same shipyard in 1963.
Friday turned out to be a really gorgeous day. I was looking forward to getting out of work and going to see the Tall ships that are all docked this past few days in and around Boston. July 8-13 is the Sail Boston 2009 Atlantic Race Challenge and over a hundred tall ships from all over the world have come to participate. The traffic going down to the city wasn't that bad and we are able to weave through the criss-crossing roads and too many stop lights of the city We found ourselves a parking space in one of the many expensive garages near the waterfront. Parking spaces in Boston are like gold and during the warmer weather you're lucky if you get one this late in the day.

Once we got parked, we went to the waterfront near the aquarium and boarded the ferry that will take us to the Charlestown Navy Yard where some of the ships are being docked.The water front was a little bit crowded and tourists were everywhere. When we got out into the harbor we can see lots of sailboats and all types of boats, yachts, ferries which I thought was very nice scenery but also this day was the most crowded I have seen in the Boston waterfront.
AMISTAD
U.S.A.
Homeport: New Haven, CT
Rig: Topsail SchoonerSparred
Length: 129’
Draft: 10’ 6"
Beam: 23’
Hull: Wood
The SPIRIT OF BERMUDA
Bermuda
Homeport: Hamilton, Bermuda
Rig: Three-Masted Schooner Sparred
Length: 112’
Draft: 10’
Beam: 23'Sall
Area: 5,372 square feet
When we arrived in the navy yard, we wasted no time walking and going through some of the tall ships on display. It's really amazing to see all these today because once upon a time, a long time ago they used to be the only mode of transportation available in the world. Some of them looked like pirate ships and we were all in awe at how much work it must be to sail these ships. The sails are so huge and the masts are so tall up close but in the middle of the ocean they can looked very much like a small boat in a tub of water.
The Boston skyline was glimmering under the hot sun even at dusk and it serves as a shining backdrop of these beautiful ships.
The tall mast of the USCG Eagle
The Roseway
U.S.A.
Homeport: Boston, MA
Rig: SchoonerSparred
Length: 137’
Draft: 13’
Beam: 25’
Hull: Wood
On the ferry to the navy yard we saw this beautiful boat gliding seamlessly in front of us. I thought it looked simply beautiful.
The tall masts of the PICTON CASTLE is quite impressive.
Cook Islands
Homeport: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Rig: BarqueSparred
Length: 179’
Draft: 14’ 6"
Beam: 24’
Hull: Steel
The Picton Castle
The Liberty
We are not able to board the tall ships because they only run a certain hours during the day but we're content to just view them and admire their sails from a distance.
It was a really great day to be in the city and we enjoyed the warm weather which is only the 3rd or 4th best day in the summer so far. Boston is a great place to visit in the summer time. There's always things you can do and it's steep with history, loaded with ghosts, walkable interesting sites that's all great for the youngones and the young at heart.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Lovespell

"Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless".
Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471), German monk, mystic, in The Imitation of Christ, pt. 3, ch. 6 (1471).