Hello. I am a Texas native.(born and raised)I was happily married for 42 years to the love of my life and fairly recently lost my husband to cancer. I hate the term widowed... I don't like to categorize myself as a widow. I will always consider myself my husband's wife! My best friend, my soulmate, my better half, he's always and forever MY PERSON. To be perfectly clear...I have ZERO interest in a new romantic relationship. I have two grown sons and a fairly large extended family. I also have amazing friends.(hopefully, including you) All inclusive, they are my comfort and joy. I live a simple life in a small town. I am a college graduate, employed for many years, recently retired. I am a Christian woman, very conservative. I ask that you DO NOT post any offensive, abrasive, comments or any obscene, sexually explicit material on my page. I believe in lending an ear, or a prayer, laughing and smiling and lifting each other up, both mentally and spiritually. It's what I offer here and what I feel friendship should be...
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“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.”
~ Piper Payne
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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are". ~ Mary Jean Irion
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“Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered, sparkling, with zestful life unto God". ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"Mirth is God's medicine." ~ Henry Ward Beecher
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"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind"... ~Joseph Addison
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“We all enter this world crying. Laughter is something we have to learn". ~ Gina Barreca
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“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be...in anything important you must have mirth or you will have madness". ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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"To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls ~ we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life". ~ Sonia Choquette
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"True beauty lives in the soul"...
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you". ~ Oscar Wilde
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“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” ~ Danny Kaye
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The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. It is in Oregon, covering 2,200 acres and is still growing.
The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
The snow on Venus is metal.
You can cut a pie into 8 pieces with only three cuts.
The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma’s – through the postal service.
Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anatidaephobia.
There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
Did you know that Chow Chows have a blue, purple tongues. They are one of the two breeds that do.
All polar bears are left-handed.
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the sun.
Mosquitoes mainly feed on nectar. The only ones that drink blood are female mosquitoes with eggs.
Stop signs used to be yellow!
Did you know some cats are allergic to people?
Some Cats eat Spiders!
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
When dogs are choosing the perfect place to go poop, it’s because they prefer to poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field. They poop in a north-south position.
The cornea of the eye is the only body part that doesn’t have a blood supply. Rather, it gets its oxygen directly from the air.
Cats are not able to taste anything that is sweet.
Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
Sea Lions have rhythm. They are the only animal able to clap to a beat.
