Strawberry Smiley One of about a dozen Strawberry Smileys. Slicing strawberries for the Spontaneous Smiley Project. That make them the tastey-est business expense ever? What is the opposite of play? Is it work? I don’t think so. What is the…
OK, some folks like cleaning. I hate it! I mean I like it when it is done! But, doing it for me is a rarity and requires a serious fire to be lit under my butt, to do it. I…
Soda Can Smiley Remember the Dr. Pepper song: I’m a pepper, he’s a pepper, she’s a pepper, we’re a pepper, wouldn’t you like to be a pepper too? That song can easily be changed to reflect this week’s topic of…
Creativity lies within us all. Sometimes we simply have to wake it up, call it to the fore and give creativity a place on your TO DO list. It’s the doers that get called creative. Today’s practice: Be a Do-er!…
VINEY TREE SMILEY It is often said that a creative person sees things that others do not. But everyone is a creative person! Everyone can see more, if they decide to become the person who is observant. Become a noticer.…
Often people feel that creativity is something they simply do not have, something you either you have or don’t. What if instead you viewed it as something you ignited or did not ignite? How do you ignite it? By doing!…
Curled Up Smiley Kitty “I dwell in possibility.” Emily Dickinson Possibility. It’s a cool place to dwell, full of hope and imaginings about the future. Dwell there and you think things are possible. I guess that’s a duh kind…
The other day I was out and I struck up a conversation with this young lady. She was nice to talk with, but after I was talking with her for a while, I realized she was troubled. We are all…
Smiley A’s Bag Talking to Strangers, Part 2 I was motivated to write a blog about this way of life by something that happened at the Ball Park. Then I wrote yesterday’s blog and completely forgot this anecdote. After…
Tractor Smiley as I was walking along the road. But, talking to strangers is my hobby. These wise words were spoken by my dear daughter Hillary, then 3 and a half, in retort to being scolded by a woman in…
