Nature bring us wonders that can awe us and inspire us.  If we open our hearts and minds, and enjoy simple moments in life, we can notice things that will keep us speechless, boggle our minds, or simply warm our hearts and put a huge smile on our faces.

I feel that I’m one with nature.  I see things that people easily miss.  My imagination also plays a big part in finding wonder in the smallest things.  Here are some of them for you to enjoy:

Seeing sunset through the building

Bug’s drawing of monkey

Natural Flower Cross

A Sea of Stars

Sun Halo

“Elvis” written in the Sky

A Huge Heart in the Sky

What did you see in nature lately that totally surprise you?

All through the ages and all over the world, there is one language that most everybody understand.  It does not matter if it is a third world country or the richest country in the world.  It is timeless, and anybody can do it.  It is a language of dance, a pure expression of human existence and emotions:  love and romance; passion and seduction; anger and disappointment; fun and excitement; confusion and uncertainty, etc.  Dance is a story-telling through every motion of the body.  When we dance, we express ourselves what we feel deep inside.

So, what is your dancing style?  How do you feel when you let go, when you listen to every beat of the music?  When music takes you on the journey, what story do you tell?  What music do you like?

If you like slow and romantic, it is a deep expression of love.  Like in the waltz, your story is to go hand in hand, foot in foot, despite anything.  It is a projection of unbreakable bond and a deep romance.  It is a story of oneness.

In tango, on other hand, there is lots of passion and seduction.  The dance is full of emotions.   Both partners are passionate of who they are – it is a relationship of desires, separate as individuals, but becoming as one in understanding.  Heart-beat to heart-beat, eye to eye, smile – it sparkles a magic.  Opposites attract and balance each other out.

Other dance stories can be of fun and excitement, one of independence and freedom.  It is expression of joy, laughter and playfulness.  Any dance can become an expression of life.

Some of us, however, restrict ourselves from dancing.  We might think dancing is stupid or we do not want to make a fool of ourselves.  Then it is our story of being afraid of what others might think.  What else are we afraid of in life?  Do we often depend on others opinion?  If we can move, we can dance.  If toddlers can do it and even some birds can do it, we certainly can do it.  The next time we hear music, let ourselves go, let ourselves loose, be free and surprise ourselves, even if we have to start telling our story of confusion and uncertainty.  We can start copy other people in their movements, until we become in sync with them.  Then our story of uncertainty becomes a story of fun and unity with others.  When we become brave enough, we can start telling about our uniqueness with movements of our own.

The key to dancing is to become one with the music and express what we feel deep inside.  It’s just like listening to the music with every inch of our body.  Music and we become one.

Here is something to think about…

Attitude is everything.  We can choose to be miserable, or we can choose to be happy.  I prefer to be happy.  Life is too short to be unhappy.

If someone treats us badly, they either 1) are evil people and out to get us, or 2) they have a really bad day.  More likely is #2, so instead of being mad at them, do something good like leave a better tip and a nice note, give them a genuine smile, etc.  This might totally shock them, or it might turn their day for the better.

If somebody KEEPS treating us like crap, we should not take it.  We either defend ourselves or leave, or both.  Let’s not choose to be a victim.  Life is too short to be unhappy.

To everything there is a solution.  It might take time and patience.  We might need to talk to others about our questions and what we need and we might just get the answer from unexpected sources.  Somebody who knows somebody who knows somebody might just have an answer.  Universe works in mysterious ways.  We just need to know what we want and talk to others.

Why beautiful things, like roses or Silk Floss Tree have thorns?  Similarly, that’s life.  Most painful experiences make people more stronger and understandable.  No matter how painful experiences are, they bring the best out in people; they bring lessons in life.  What does not kill you, it makes you stronger.  Everything happens for a reason.

Only our own fear stops us.  We can control our thoughts.  Therefore, we can control our fear and we can stop it.  Usually the situation is not that bad as our fear makes it to be.

We can not change the past.  Let’s look at the past only for lessons we learned.  We can only change today and the future.

What is our essence?  What is our passion?  Lots of people often neglect what they like to do.  Never neglect it because that’s who you are.  Schedule your passion if you have to.

We can choose to concentrate on negative or positive things.  If we’ll concentrate on negative, all we’ll see is negative.  If we switch to positive, we’ll start seeing things that will make our day, and might as well find a solution.

Worry and non-sleep only will ruin our health.  It will not help us with anything.  So don’t worry, be happy.  To everything, there is a solution.

Some things can not be forced.  If they have to happen, they will at their own time.  If things do not happen the way we want them, it means, there is a better plan waiting for us that will work for the better, even though we can not see it yet.

Whatever we will put out to the world, we’ll get back.  If we will be nice to others, majority of people will be nice to us.  Opposite is true.

Dream big.  What is the point of dreaming, if we can’t dream big.  Now do everything to achieve those dreams, and do not let anybody or anything to stand in the way.

Life is too short to be unhappy…

Have a fantastic week, my friends!

I did it.  My friends did it.  Lots of women still do it.  Men do it, too.  All creatures, animals and birds do it all the time.  They camouflage themselves in their environment.  They hide to escape predators; they hide to save their lives.  A lizard’s skin tone suddenly resembles rustic fallen leaves on the ground.  Squirrel’s fur color is exact like palm tree’s or any tree’s bark.  Robin lifts up his head resembling a tree leaf.  Insects become the same color as surface they land on.  It’s a trick of survival, matter of life and death situation.

Now you probably asking, “What animals and we have in common?” We don’t need to hide from predators.  This does not make sense.  Or does it?

Looking deeply in ourselves, we’ll find we do camouflage.  The only difference among animals and us is that camouflage saves and protects animals, but it has an adverse reaction to us.  To some degree or another, we all have “a fit in” disease, and could be detrimental to our self-image, self-identity and even our health.

All of us probably heard or said to others “Oh, I like your outfit.  Where did you get it?”  Let’s admit it, we like to wear the same or similar clothes as others wear.  Even fashion magazines compare the real designer clothes to bargain look-a-likes, that anyone can “afford.”  By “fitting-in,” we camouflage our individuality, our individual tastes.  We blend in with others, by avoiding to be different.  We wear the similar hairstyles, similar jewelry, similar shoes.  We even “copy” movie stars.  Our justification is that now we look like famous people, or perhaps even better.

Don’t get me wrong, though.  Some of us try really hard to be different, but our society is set up this way that we look at those people who are different as outcasts, odd, strange and eccentrics.  Why can’t we accept them as normal human beings celebrating their differences and individuality?  They just try to express themselves of who they are and not what society wants them to be.  Better yet, why can’t we express unique ourselves in our clothes, our style full-heartedly and would not be judged and not judge others who do the same?  Why can’t we just celebrate our differences?

Secondly, beauty is everything for many of us.  We do everything we can to stay thin, young and beautiful.  Some of us go to the extremes to have plastic surgery, to go under the knife, just to become a beauty from outside.  That’s a form of extreme, another form of camouflage.  We want to fit-in a beautiful world around us, among beautiful friends in a beautiful society where media plays a huge role in changing “ugly ducklings” to beautiful swans, or showing never-aging actors and actresses.  Whatever happened to beauty from inside?  Whatever happened to intelligence and creativity and resourcefulness  as great qualities? Whatever happened for giving respect to older people who proudly are showing their age and wisdom?  It seems that all of this is forgotten.  All forgotten of what is important.  Outside beauty, no matter what way is achieved, no matter how many times going under the knife is all that matters.  To me, that’s a camouflage under the mask.  Shockingly enough, still physically not developed teens go under the knife to get breast implants.  Everything is just for an image, so they would fit in among beautiful people.  All of this fake beautification is just a mask.  What people do not realize is that no matter if person is the most beautiful from outside, if he or she does not have a high self-esteem, no boob job or face lifts will be good enough.  They’ll feel horrible anyway.  The first thing what they need fixing is their self-esteem.  If they are proud of who they are, they’ll not need plastic surgery to make them fake beauties.  Here is an idea for the media: how about a show portraying how people can be beautiful from inside.  There are many everyday heroes doing great deeds.  They don’t need to hide under fake masks.  They are beautiful all around.  It’s what inside that matters, and no makeover will change that.  Then maybe our children will learn more valuable lessons in life.

The third camouflage is not that noticeable, but it is as destructible.  Many of us don’t even know or notice it until it is too late, and we get easily lost.  We camouflage ourselves among family, at our work, at our endless the same over and over again schedule, earning that dollar to pay the bills.  We get easily stuck in the same routine over and over again.  We become what everyone expects us to be: a great wife, great husband, a breadwinner, excellent employee or manager, great mother, great father…  We start to become people-pleasers at no matter what price.  We take care of all of the world, and become what world expects us to become, but we never truly find the time to take care of ourselves.  We get so involved in the same routine over and over again.  Days, months, years go by very quickly, and we lose ourselves in every day life.  We lose ourselves.  Period.  Then, if we’re lucky enough, we wake up one day.  Many of us are not that lucky.  But if we are, we start asking ourselves, “Who am I? What do I like? What I’m here to do? I did everything for everybody, how about me?  What do I want in life?  What do I want to accomplish for myself?” We hit identity crisis.  When our children grow up and move out, or if marriage did not work or spouse died, many of us start to feel empty.  We gave all to others, and nothing is left for us.  Some of us hit the bottom and get depressed.  But some of us are lucky to still have time to re-discover ourselves.

Life is too short to be unhappy.  So let’s be happy for who we are.  Let’s wear clothes and hairstyles that express our individuality and makes us comfortable.  It’s OK to be different.  Let’s not follow the crowd.  Let’s be proud of who we are, not hide behind fake masks of plastic surgery.  Let’s be proud of our gray hair and wrinkles that show our wisdom acquired by age.  Let’s find the time for ourselves to do what we want to do in our lives, and learn and accomplish more, and be proud of who we are.  It is great to be imperfect.  Nature is imperfect.  That’s why it is so beautiful.  We do not need to hide from predators like animals do.  Therefore, let’s open ourselves like rose opens it’s bud and show the world who we truly are.  Let’s come out of camouflage.

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Be yourself and inspire others to be themselves as well.  World is too boring when people want to be the same.

We have two horses: Princess Adora who is Dutch Warm Blood and Tango who is a Thoroughbred.  Interesting how both of them have different personalities.  Princess Adora is unbroken and wild spirit, but very sweet horse when she wants to be.  Tango is a rescue, retired racing horse.  Princess is super smart and very curious about everything.  Tango loves to eat.  As long as he gets food, he does not care about anything else.  Princess keeps Tango in check.  If she senses it will rain, she nudges him to go under the roof of stalls.  Princess also keeps Tango on his toes.  I swear she can count.  If I give a larger flake of hay to him, she knows it. They both are best friends forever, and I love them so much.

Princess Adora and Tango after the shower

Tango with Rock Star hair

Just after the shower, Princess rolls herself in the sand.  It is a cunning way to get another shower.  She LOVES water!

Princess is looking pretty.  She is the best poser.

Got food?  Just look at those beautiful eyes! Strategy and hay coming up.

Princess doing a hand-stand

Full speed Tango.

Enjoying carrots together

Enjoying summer breeze

Ah, Simple Pleasures in Life!

Have a great day, my friends!

I go every morning to take care of our horses: feed them, brush them, hug them, kiss them.  It makes my mornings special.  Also, I get to see deer family.  There is one deer lives behind. She recently had 2 fawns.  They are so cute! It warms my heart.  I have pictures that I want to share with you and make you smile. Enjoy and have a great day!

I call him Spot, the Adventurer.  He often separates from his family to look for adventures. He is so curious about everything.

Here, Spot checks me out.

The Spot’s sibling that always sticks with Mommy

The Mommy Deer

Pregnant doe before the twins

And here is my most favorite family shot

In  1974 Sylvester Stallone was a broke, discouraged actor and screenwriter.  While attending a boxing match he became inspired by a “nobody” boxer who “went the distance” with the great Mohammed Ali.

He rushed home and in a three-day burst of creative output produced the first draft of the screenplay entitled Rocky.

Down to his last $106, Stallone submitted his screenplay to his agent.  A studio offered $20,000 with either Ryan O’Neal or Burt Reynolds playing the lead character.  Stallone was excited by the offer but wanted to play the lead himself.  He offered to act for free.  He was told, “That’s not the way it works in Hollywood.”  Stallone turned down the offer though he desperately needed the money.

Then they offered him $80,000 on the condition that he wouldn’t play the lead.  He turned them down again.

They told him that Robert Redford was interested, in which case they’d pay him $200,000.  He turned them down once more.

They upped their offer to $300,000 for his script.  He told them that he didn’t want to go through his whole life wondering “what if?”

They offered him $330,000.  He told them that he’d rather not see the movie made if he couldn’t play the lead.

They finally agreed to let him play the lead.  He was paid $20,000 for the script plus $340 per week minimum actor’s scale.  After expenses, agen fees, and taxes, he netted about $6,000 instead of $330,000.

In 1976 Stallone was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Actor.  The movie Rocky won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing.  The Rocky series has since grossed almost $1 billion, making Sylvester Stallone an international movie star!

Follow your gut. Stick to your guns. – from book “The One Minute Millionaire” by Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen.

It’s raining cats and dogs outside all day.  Most people usually curl up on the coach and hope that rain will stop soon.  However, as rain renews all the nature, and brings out all the color, the artsy people can make the best of it.  The rain creates magic if you look a bit closer.  Here are some photos I took to enjoy: This photo is of changing traffic light reflections

Reflection of the house in a puddle

Rose in Mom’s garden

Now do not let rain stop you.  Go out and create magic.  Look at different angle, in different ways. See what can capture your imagination.

Remember how we loved to play in the rain as we were children.  What stops us to do that now?

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