we are sunflowers

“I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun but because it follows the sun. During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky. A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that's such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life."

From the movie Calendar Girls

One of my mom's favorites.

taking stock

"Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not." - Marcus Aurelius

life is a playground... with very high swings

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato

(Random pic from Flickr of people I don't know... but I think I'd really dig hanging with them.)

make your own kind of music

"If you study - if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else." - Jim Henson

I am marching to my own beat today. It's not easy to blaze your own path, but that's what I'm going to do.

life, boundless

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes I have moments of happiness so big that I can't articulate or explain it.

Today is a red balloon day.