Celebrate Each Day

Hi everyone,


Hope you had a fun and restful weekend. This comes at the end of a busy Monday and a weekend where I had a great time with good friends of mine, having lunch and watching Harry Potter movies.
Oh and I saw my little cousin which is always wonderful!


And you realise that the little things in this world are the most beautiful and how important it is to celebrate each and every day. Even the mundane days where you can't find the top you wanted to wear or when everything seems to be going wrong. Even the quiet moments, like those that I had this evening, watching a cat in my garden and it coming over and meowing at me circling my legs, or watching documentaries. So I may not be scaling Kilimanjaro at this point in time. But as long as we connect every day to beauty and to realise how happy and grateful we are for things in our lives... to celebrate life.


On a different note, I also want to say thanks to the very lovely Alli at Reasons To Smile for recommending my blog in her blog award post. Alli's blog makes for wonderful reading. Thanks! :)


What are you happy for today?


xo 


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Weddings.

'And we were dressed from head to toe in love. The only label that never goes out of style'- Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City.

Today I am posting about weddings because my friends are getting married today! (well they already have got married) and I was unable to make it as I'm not feeling well. *sigh* Congratulations to you both!!!


I love weddings and all they symbolise. The love element is of course the most important and to me the most beautiful, special thing in the world. To give to someone throughout your life on that level, to constantly give out of kindness for the welfare and joy of the other person, is quite simply, spell binding. Difficult, hard work but in some ways, although I may be romanticising it, if you love and you give, it can be a magical journey.


After all, if we stop believing in love what have we got left? 

xx

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Remember to say I Love you...

"It's getting impossible to hear you" said the young girl from her bedroom in Manhattan. "I'll holler if I have to" said her friend from his bedroom in the Sixth Borough...


'The string between them grew incredibly long, so long it had to be extended with many other strings tied together: his yo-yo string, the pull from her talking doll, the twine that had fastened his father's diary, the waxy string that had kept her grandmothers pearls around her neck and off the floor, the thread that had separated his great- uncle's childhood quilt from a pile of rags. Contained within everything they shared with one another were the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, and the quilt. They had more and more to tell each other and less and less string.     


'The boy asked the girl to say 'I love you' into her can, giving her no further explanation. 


'And she didn't ask for any, or say, 'That's silly' or 'We're too young for love' or even suggest that she was saying 'I love you' because he asked her too. Instead she said, 'I love you'.  The words travelled the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, the clothesline, the quilt, the birthday present, the harp, the tea bag, the tennis racket..


'The boy covered his can with a lid, removed it from the string, and put her love for him in a shelf on the closet. Of course, he never could open the can because then he would lose the contents. It was enough just to know it was there.'

(from 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer)


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Laughter is..

'Always laugh when you can. It is the cheapest medicine' Lord Byron



A wonderful friend of mine bought me a book called 'Keep Calm and Carry On' about a year ago. The quote above is from that book and I think it is so true. In our journey through life, we must find time to laugh. Whether it's at a commercial, or sweet babies pulling faces at you in a cafe, or at a silly joke your dad or friend has told, or even at something the guy on the radio said while you were washing up dishes (my worst chore!). Laughter truly is the best medicine.


What's been making you smile? 


I got my first blog review by a lovely friend and blogger called Chas. You can see it above. That made me smile!


xx


Ps.... I got to eat my raspberries! We went to my grandparents for dinner on friday night and I had some for dessert with home-picked redcurrants and strawberries :). Its the little things that matter after all. 






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You can take life's knocks. x

"So, my little Amelie, your bones aren't made of glass. You can take life's knocks. If you let this chance go by, eventually, your heart will become as dry and brittle as my skeleton. So go ahead, dammit."

(the old man in 'Amelie')







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Quote of my weekend...

                                


'Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound to another soul'
(A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett) 


This weekend I have been re-reading A Little Princess. It has some truly beautiful ideas about a rich young girl who suddenly loses her only surviving relative and wealth but relies on her imaginative nature to get her through adversity. And beautiful ideas about life. 

What do you think about the quote?

El xxxx


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Lifes Poetry

'And your very flesh shall be a great poem'- Walt Whitman

Tonight I am thinking about the importance and complexity of life, the dreams we all carry intertwined with us... love, friendships and our futures. The ups and downs....our fears, our hearts...Lifes poetry.

El xx

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A Japanese Thought For The Day

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Thought for the day.....

ONLY THIS MOMENT IS LIFE

A key Japanese principle is to treasure every encounter because it may not come again. This is known in Japanese as 'ichi-go ichi-e'

'Make this moment so beautiful it is worth remembering'

El xx