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when you're old like me, laughs
to smile is somewhat harder
when you're tired and gray
to smile is quite a struggle
but when you smile in your inside
or off your heart and
treat everybody right
then even without a smile
your life is like a bell
with a Venus wrap around :)
when you seal your lips
with nasty things
and never break your fellow men
or put them out in dark despair
then even without a smile
in your pretty face
the world around you
will be shining in and your
golden heart will be humming out
and singing just the same :)
SMILE even when things are tough :) but most importantly, be kind to strangers. no nasty words from our mouths for the things that we put out there are always the things that we ended up raking in :) it's nice to be beautiful but it is always nicer to be kind at all times and be wonderful to strangers that we've never known nor meet for they are sent by God to test what kind of an inside or an inner quality of a human being we are all made up of :) remember that beauty fades but character lingers on as we become just memories in other people's minds...so smile... be kind and only try to dole out love aka only show love even how hard and painful for us to do that :)... never let hate linger for long, that simple :>
isn't it true that as we navigate our path on this earth we meet people that will shine forever in our minds for the rest of our lives? I've had and her name starts with the same two letters of the alphabet as the name of the mother of Christ. I'm sure it's not only a coincidence for things happen for a reason and i truly believe in that...
top rose is an image i took at the side garden of the shrine of the little flower church here, lovely :) as if this rose is saying with its petals, "i love you"...(^_~)...thank you all for your visits :)...
how did we celebrate the holidays as if you cared ;? my relatives young and old are in pinas, so we texted or e-mailed or talked by the phone :) christmas i was working, but this new year i am off so i cooked pancit, my husband will cook duck and JC will cook beef stroganoff :) our holiday celebration is very simple. it involves family as well, like everyone else...and on new year's eve me and JC watched CNN's anderson cooper and kathy griffin at times square in waiting for the 2014's giant crystal ball drop :) but the best is me watching the yearly new year rose parade at HGTV non commercial that started 11:00 AM and is on going right now :) flowers, roses, floats and bands from all over the U.S. and lo and behold a band from nagoya, japan too, isn't that place is our always lay over place during our vacation trip to pinas :> lovely and music to the max! ...again, happy new year everyone :) ...here's to many happy moments ahead in our lives, CHEERS!!! in spite of the disappointments and tears...
