Oh, how I hope you had a wonderful Caturday doing whatever you enjoy the most and accomplishing just what you needed to get done.
I have spent the entire day in the computer room updating 26 new pictures on My Boomer page.
It is Summer after all and it is too hot to go outside for very long!
But after putting as many as I could of newly taken pictures on my page, I still have over 15 left over that I wanted to share and literally hundreds more taken in the last month.
Thanks for letting me share my life and my love of taking pictures & sharing graphics with you AND my love for giraffes too.
Lately, I’ve been holding all my friends — and the world — close in my prayers. No matter where we are in life, I truly believe we all need to take a few minutes each day to pause and be grateful. Grateful not just for what we have, but also for the things we don’t — the struggles we’ve been spared, the lessons we’re still learning, the growth that comes in silence.
The world feels increasingly detached from the things that matter most: compassion, empathy, kindness, and respect. It's easy to get lost in the noise, the rush, the judgment, and the division.
But we’re all human. We all hurt, we all hope, we all carry something unseen. So today, and every day, let’s choose love — even when it’s hard. Let’s listen more, judge less, and remember that even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference.
We may not be able to fix everything, but we can choose to be a light in someone’s darkness.
Lately, I’ve been holding all my friends — and the world — close in my prayers. No matter where we are in life, I truly believe we all need to take a few minutes each day to pause and be grateful. Grateful not just for what we have, but also for the things we don’t — the struggles we’ve been spared, the lessons we’re still learning, the growth that comes in silence.
The world feels increasingly detached from the things that matter most: compassion, empathy, kindness, and respect. It's easy to get lost in the noise, the rush, the judgment, and the division.
But we’re all human. We all hurt, we all hope, we all carry something unseen. So today, and every day, let’s choose love — even when it’s hard. Let’s listen more, judge less, and remember that even the smallest act of kindness can make a difference.
We may not be able to fix everything, but we can choose to be a light in someone’s darkness.
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bits of cocoon. The butterfly emerged easily but it had a swollen body and shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch it, expecting that any minute the wings would enlarge and expand enough to support the body, Neither happened! In fact the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around. It was never able to fly.
What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand: The restricting cocoon and the struggle required by the butterfly to get through the opening was a way of forcing the fluid from the body into the wings so that it would be ready for flight once that was achieved.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. Going through life with no obstacles would cripple us. We will not be as strong as we could have been and we would never fly.
XXOO
