Choose the New Year

Most of us are looking to make this next year “new” in some way. Whatever you want to connect to, start within yourself. It’s difficult to connect to what is out there if it is not already within you. For example, many people want world peace, but few people know peace in their own life. […]

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Happy Mother’s Day everyone.  Always remember come from your heart.  Whether Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, New Years or the child down the block just broke your window. If you come from your heart, you will not look back in remembrance and wish you would have done differently.  We never know where the other person’s mind is, […]

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Hope

This is a beautiful saying I’ve kept for many years.  The author was not identified.  It brings to mind how the simple things around us can bring us hope when we are blue.  Just pay attention to what surrounds you.  It is usually the smallest sight, sound or smell that will resonate with your heart […]

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Love is the answer

I recently consulted with a friend and marketing expert.  He said, “Cheryl everything you are involved in is connected by and with love.  Your family, animals, work, friends, the beauty of the landscape and your country.  You wouldn’t be so vested if you didn’t come from that place of love.” And he is right.  I […]

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Trust your Heart

That little voice in our head can be so persistent when we are coming to a decision.  If we are in our head, we will feel anticipation, expectation, fear and ego, judgment and so on.  We are normally in the hustle and bustle of our daily lives.  All the emotions rattle around as we try […]

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Create from your Soul

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” -Rumi  How many times have you said or heard?  “I was in the zone and everything just flowed.  I didn’t have to think about it.”  That truly is when we are creating from our soul, from our heart.  We […]

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Frosty Hearts

Happy Valentine’s Day Hearts are everywhere if we just open up to them.  They are part of nature and of our man made world.  I’ve walked by these gates several times a week for over 15 years and I’ve never seen the hearts.  It took a frosty morning and a photographer eye to capture the […]

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Gift of Joy

Somehow, not only for Christmas but all the long year through, the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you – John Greenleaf Whittier. Beautiful quote and true. I placed these red poinsettias around the house to add a bit of festive cheer.  I did it so that those […]

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Donkey’s Dilemma

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his […]

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