“If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.”
Summertime
A SONNET TO SUMMER
How bright the effulgent beams which crown the hills,
And flood the world with beauteous, golden light!
The earth from sea to sea is beaming bright
With dazzling beauty, all the air it fills,
And in my saddened heart new hope instills,
Which frees it for a moment from its blight.
See all around is bloom, the mountain height,
And forest glade and banks of rippling rills.
O summer season, gladdest of the year,
Sweet, radiant season, loving, blooming time,
To me thy sunlit scenes are ever dear,
My heart is filled with the music of thy chime
Thy warm sun soothes like a maiden’s kiss the soul
And cheers and thrills and beautifies life’s; whole.
~Colfax Burgoyne Harman
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What is a SONNET?
son·net (sän′it)
noun
a poem normally of fourteen lines in any of several fixed verse and rhyme schemes, typically in rhymed iambic pentameter: sonnets characteristically express a single theme or idea
Nothing to Sniff At -- Body Odor, Smells, and Fragrances Oh My
Video Highlights:
[:39] Mmm, honeysuckle and lavender [:56]
[1:34] These smells help a home sell faster:
[2:09] Story of a student whose body odor was so bad; other students couldn’t learn
[2:30] Ironman 2: Mickey Rourke’s GROSS character
[2:48] Study about a room spritzed with orange fragrance
[3:39] My recommendation to cut bacteria that causes body odor
[4:41] Tips for after bathing UNSCENTED antiperspirant
[5:51] “When I get all clean, I feel more OPTIMISTIC about EVERYTHING in life.”
[6:29] Tips for fighting bad breath
[7:00] Tips for pleasant home smells
Video Highlights: [:49] A story about little bird’s nest from my porch… followed by a little story about the sandpipers at the beach
[2:11] (A little laughing place…)”The water the water the water, the water, the water, the water…”
[2:22] “I love nature’s lessons…..I think animals are optimists…”
[2:36] “…They (animals) don’t say ‘BOO HOO’ about things, they don’t get moody about what comes their way; they just deal with it, and they deal with it in the best possible way. How? They keep on moving, they keep on creating. They keep on doing.”
‘[3:01] “When something maybe is tragic, or that we perceive at the time is tragic happens like losing your job…
then like Lilou Mace http://www.youtube.com/user/liloumace (Her Book) I Lost My Job and I Liked It…. TO ORDER: http://www.liloumace.com/shop/I-lost-my-Job-and-I-liked-It_l3.html …and she is a realist and she is an optimist and you can see how peacefully those can co-exist..”
[3:35] “The more people that I know who are truly authentic with themselves, that projects onto how they’re authentic with other people.”
[3:46]“You were put here for a reason that ONLY YOU can fulfill. So was I and my gifts are different than your gifts. My talents are different than your talents”
[4:05] “We, as optimists, MUST CREATE… We must invent things in our minds. We must see things to their fruition. We must come up with little inventions, or ideas, or events, or a better way to do something.”
[4:36] “Everything around you, EVERYTHING around you was FIRST a thought of somebody else…”
[5:10] “This necklace was made lovingly by one of my friends and subscribers –Christie, thank you so much…”
[5:27] Everything,EVERYTHING that you consume; everything that you eat, everything that you wear, everything that you buy, everything that you touch everything that you are was first a thought of somebody else and so, why haven’t some of YOUR thoughts come to fruition?
[5:47] “What inventions do you have inside of you? What creations are there inside of YOU, because only YOU can make those come out! Only you see those crystal clear in your head, ONLY YOU.
[6:02] “Part of what an optimist does is BELIEVE…”
{6:14] “How do you suppress it” [the part of you destined to create]?
[6:15] Ways to die a little bit and have little bits of your soul stolen “Those are the things that keep you from fulfilling what is part of your life’s mission.”
[6:45] “Everything about you is born for creation.”
[7:30] “What is it inside of you, that we can see SO STRONGLY, SO CLEARLY, that we can almost taste it?”
[7:45] “Put away the things that are keeping us from becoming who we were meant to be and give the world the greatest gift of you — YOUR CREATIONS”
MAKEOVER your experience at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) by making an appointment, showing up a few minutes early, being pleasant, and asking the right people.
Some Video Highlights
[:40] Article: “Change Your Focus For Better Results”
[2:09] “Optimism isn’t something that you are necessarily born with. It is a skill you can learn.”
[2:26] Quote: “There are only idiots in the world. There are either happy idiots or miserable idiots. One are the optimists and the other are the pessimists.”
[2:52] My experience snorkeling in Hawaii.
[4:24] Disney’s Nature “OCEANS” movie released on Earth Day WATCH TRAILER
[5:00] The miserable lady with a big snarl on her face that I met snorkeling…
[6:50] The result of seeing the positive…
[[7:06] When you have a rose….see the blossom, not the thorns
[7:32] “I’m not saying that you need to be blind to all of those other things; acknowledge them, accept them, validate them, appreciate them, but then make a conscious choice to LOVE the good parts.”
[7:47] “There was a woman who, when she got married for the second time, she told her husband: “…80% of me is good and 20% of me is a work in progress; as long as you focus on the 80% that’s good, we’ll do great.” ~Barbara Barrington Jones
[8:10] “Most of us are mostly good, and we are a work-in-progress on the parts of us that we KNOW we need to overcome, but that is part if the reason I think of why we’re here on the earth is to overcome and learn how to be more self-mastering.”
[8:25] “I think one of the greatest things that we can do to discipline ourselves and to learn that kind of self-mastery to become our highest self is to learn how to be optimistic and learn not just to see the best in ourselves but to see the best in others.”
[8:45] My student from Syria: Nahim Dahoch “You know, teacher, if I had teachers like you when I was growing up, I would probably be a doctor today.”
[9:12] “If you look at the bad in people and you focus on the bad in people, you’re going to get the bad FROM people; but if you focus on the good in people, you’re going to get the good from people. Don’t you want that?”
[9:34] “It’s a really beautiful, blessed way to see the world, is to see what’s great about it.”
[9:53] It takes five positives to just neutralize a negative.
Rose Blossom
Rose Thorns -- Which will you choose to focus on, the rose or the thorns? Both are present.
Men and jewelry — This is not so much a segment on what kind of jewelry a gentleman wears, although I do mention it briefly. No, this is more a philosophy about how ladies feel when a man bestows a gift of jewelry to his queen.
[4:25] “Baby, that would have cost me the same for only ONE thing at Tiffany’s, please let me get that for you.”
This week on “Adventures of Hair Rolling” … Dianne gets hair curler stuck in her blouse. Ahh the price of beauty. It’s good we have a sense of humour. Tune in next time for more….”Adventures in Hair Rolling!” Moral: Put blouse on BEFORE you roll your hair.
I don’t want to scare you. PEOPLE DO notice that facial hair, they can’t help it, it’s SO distracting. Claim your full power of self-presentation and get rid of that unwanted facial hair as often as needed. For maintenance, do SOMETHING every 4 – 6 weeks or more to remove your facial, ear, nose, back, neck: Your neck is part of your face.
Wax
Shave
Thread
Depilatory
Laser
Tweeze
Epilady
Truly, this video response embodies WHY I share what I do. I get to see firsthand how my sharing inspires such fabulous women to take a step towards being their best self. Our exchange of emails bust my gut laughing as you can see–she is a HOOT! This is one of the highest compliments I could receive, thank you.
