Carry the Uni-verse <3

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(lol This face has been appearing in many of my posts in various forms! I love it! It’s a flower pot in the backyard and I take many pics of it, this one I distorted and put a bokeh effect and colored it. I use my camera now for pics but haven’t yet uploaded them to my comp. so don’t have very many pics to use until I do that soon! So the face it is for now!)

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” ~Andrew Boyd

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What a beautiful quote that rings so true! Β 

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Compassion and Empathy can be painful but it's worth it! But it doesn't have to drag us down. We can learn to carry it well and use it for good, to help heal, inspire, uplift others in any way we can even in the most simplest ways like an encouraging word, an inspiring quote, a warm embrace….

Much love & light to you!Β 

Xoxo KimΒ 

Beautiful thoughts <3

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“To make your life beautiful, impregnate your thoughts with beauty.” ~Debasish Mridha

No matter what is going on outside, if our thoughts are laced with beauty, life will be beautiful. And we have the ability to choose how to think. Sometimes beautiful thoughts come naturally while other occasions we may have to work harder and make the choice to think positively.

“Fake it ’til you make it!”

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Today was another looonngg day at work! Very busy and fun! πŸ˜€

Much love,

xoxo Kim

Love to Live <3

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“If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.” ~Daisaku Ikeda

If we maintain a positive attitude, we see beauty more easily and that helps further increase our positive mood and love for life. ❀

I love beautiful reminders like this!

Thank you for the comments, I still have a few to get to! I have been working more/later hours at work and it has been busy! It's an ice cream/water ice place and they tend to get busy in warm weather! So I have been posting here late and mostly just short posts. But I make it a point to post something at least once a day!

I appreciate every comment I receive!
Thank you so much!! ❀ πŸ˜€

Also, I have quite a few wonderful blogs to catch up on! ❀

Much love & light to you, I hope it's a beautiful day or night wherever in the world you are!

It's a lovely Spring night here in Philadelphia! I am so happy many flowers & trees have fully blossomed. It seems to have been happening gradually but then I just noticed today how they seem to have just appeared right before my very eyes!
When I saw the beauty of the green leaves, I was filled (and still am!) with immense gratitude & felt so much love and awe well up inside. ❀

Reminds me of this song:

Baby What a Big Surprise – Chicago – mobile

Baby What a Big Surprise – desktop

One of my favorite music groups!! Always has been! ❀ πŸ˜€

xoxo Kim ❀

Light of Love

So beautiful and so true!
There’s always a light glimmering in the dark, just like the moon & the stars in the vast darkness of the sky at night. The darkness does not vanquish the light. Even a small spark of light is so powerful. Even when we cannot feel the light automatically, we can choose to search for it and acknowledge its existence. Beauty & light & hope come in many forms, the stars in the sky, the warm touch of a friend, a loving embrace, a cool Summer breeze, the warmth of a hot drink in the dead of Winter, the various colors of nature in Spring & Fall, fragrant flowers, the blue sky, the sweet taste of cold water or iced tea on a hot day, the sounds of a busy city or the churring of insects in a quiet countryside, friendly strangers, an inspiring quote, random acts of kindness, the boundless love within each of us… Let’s keep acknowledging that lovelight! ❀ Thank you for this beautiful reminder! Very inspiring!! ❀ πŸ˜€

Happy Birthday, Isis Summerjo!!! <3

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β€œWhen I saw you I fell in love and you smiled because you knew.”  ❀

(our quote, always <3)

Today is my beautiful fur goddess's ninth birthday!! We adopted her when she was just two years old! Her name was already Isis, which is the name of a goddess. She's the best thing ever and is my furry soulmate! She's a very big, strong girl who probably weighs more than I do but she is the sweetest, gentlest thing! She's scared of balloons, flies, talking toys, and many other innocent things! It's so cute!! ❀

She loves people and other animals and when the other dogs snap at her, she just turns her head and doesn't snap back.

She is so youthful and loves to play and go for walks and she loves cold weather like me! She gets in wild moods and tries to steal food!

lol!

Her nickname is Big Girl because she's so big. ❀

She loves attention.

It’s hard to get pics of her because she doesn’t like it and won’t stay still.

Today, she got special treats and we sang to her. She loves when we sing to her. She gets all wild and jumps around.

I just love my girl! I fell in love the instant I first saw my girl. ❀

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Dogs are some of the best friends we can have.

Much love & light to you! ❀

I hope you are having a beautiful day/night! πŸ˜€

xoxo Kim

Polished.

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β€œIf you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?”– Rumi

Here is a song of stunning beauty!
It’s so full of love & tenderness.

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“If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There’s no one home but you
You’re all that’s left me to
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me.”
~ Bread (If)

If – Bread – mobile

If – Bread – desktop

Isn’t is just beautiful?! ❀

I hope you are having a wonderful day or night wherever you are!

I have been drinking sweet hot tea on this lovely, cool Spring day! ❀

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Much love,

xoxo Kim

Spring.

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“What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.”
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Kobayashi Issa

Spring is in the air! It has been a cold, cold (and rainy! <3) Spring, which I'm incredibly thankful for! I love the cold! But it's getting warmer now! And the air smells wonderful like fragrant flowers! The trees are blossoming quite beautifully with pink & white flowers. ❀ πŸ˜€

I feel so alive, full of wonder. ❀

I don't know what kind of flowers these are in my photo above.

But they are beautiful! πŸ˜€

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Much love to you,

xoxo Kim

Magazine Monday!! <3

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This is the third edition of Magazine Inspiration on Monday! Β 

Here goes!

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“Come with me, my love
To the sea, the sea of love
I wanna tell you just how much I love you.”
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Sea of Love – Honeydrippers – mobile

Sea of Love – desktop

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Immersed in a sea of love. πŸ˜€

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Finding beauty in the magazines and in each & every day. ❀ πŸ˜€

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More next week! πŸ˜€

Much love & light to you!

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xoxo Kim

Compassion <3

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“The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.” ~Blake Lively

I can’t (truthfully) say that I agree. Self confidence is beautiful but to me, compassion for others is even more beautiful. ❀

It's great to have both!

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Much love & light to you, always! ❀

xoxo Kim