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Life Is An AMAZING GIFT!
“Rise up this mornin’Smiled with the risin’ sunThree little birds pitched by my doorstepSingin’ sweet songs of melodies pure and trueSayin’, this is my message to you”– Bob Marley and the Wailers From my soul to yours, I say – “this is my message to you!” I am filled with a constant source of wonder and amazement about all of life! There is such a deep well of sacredness to every single moment of life, that to be anything less then amazed is nearly an insult to the wonder of it all. My heart and soul is touched by it everyday and I am so very hopeful that it is…
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Spread Good Energy!
Good morning beautiful people!Rise and shine to that gorgeous smile of yours. Here is just a little something to think about today and a quick and easy exercise to cleanse your energy! If you want, you could absolutely find a million reasons to hate life, and be angry at the world…and the world would reflect back what you project. OR If you want, you could absolutely find a million reasons to love life, and be happy with the world…and the world would reflect back what you project. The choice is yours but choose wisely…because note to self… Live in the moment because every minute you spend angry or bitter or…
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Happy Birthday and Some Life Lessons to Boot!
You always passed on the best life lessons. Wish you were here for us to celebrate. Even though you physically aren’t, I’m still celebrating you and I’m still learning life’s lessons. Turns out I have learned a lot in the 11 years you have been gone. I have now lived through 11 years without you in my world, 11 Father’s Day, 11 days where I memorialize and mourn your passing, celebrate 11 of my birthdays, thinking how much I have grown as a woman and then your birthday, just four days later. I have lived through and now learned the agonizing, painful lesson that the last act of true love;…
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Intensely Intentional
Good morning and Happy new day sweetest Sunshines! Guess what people?!? It is time to start living life intensely and with intention! Every single day is a wonderful opportunity for a celebration of your individuality and it is a unique privilege to be given this opportunity with each new day! Just like January 1st, New Year’s Day, you can treat every day throughout the year as a mini New Year’s Day! Every year on that one special day, we set resolutions, or as I call them, “heartfelt intentions.” Only shouldn’t every day be set with intention?! Every morning when you wake, that is your decision to make! In doing so,…
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Patience
“Adopt the pace of Mother Nature, her secret is patience.” – Unknown “You can’t jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.” – Nadia Comaneci Hey y’all! It’s Hope and it’s another beautiful day and the first official day of Fall. Fall in Florida is pretty much like summer in Florida – only with pumpkin spice everything and maybe a few cooler temps before 9am. So today I’m going to talk about something that is a battle for me. When I say battle, I mean it’s something I truly have to be aware of…and here lately I’ve been requiring loads of it! PATIENCE! Yup…good ‘ole…
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Dear Loved Ones!
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.” — Ralph H. Blum Hi y’all, it’s me, Hope and I have to send out a little Hopeservations message of thanks to all my loved ones and the Universe! Here it is July 25th and the birthday wishes, comments, emails, direct messages, texts, calls, cards and LOVE keep coming my way! Just yesterday I received a dear gift because some Bunny loves me very much! It was a writing journal with personalized scripture on each page. Since last Thursday night, I have been delightfully spoiled with these little surprises! Each gift has been a token from the…
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Love, One Choice at a Time!
Hey y’all…Hope here with another one of my Hopeservations and this one is straight from the HEART… As of July 15, 2019, I am officially 23 days from the start of my 26th year in education. WOW! As I write 26 years, it seems hard for me to believe. And yet, these 23 days are 23 days before I get back to one of my GREATEST passions and I thought about this quote that I posted to my Instagram a few years ago “You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back.” – Barbara DeAngelis As children, we typically love unconditionally but somewhere along the way, as we age…
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Don’t Call it a Dream, Call it a GOAL!
“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” – Pope John XXIII Hey y’all! Hope here, with a question and a little hopeservation about our kids, sports and being their parent… So I just returned from our annual summer vacation, and jumped right back into the summer swing of life with none other then? You guessed it… VOLLEYBALL!!! When it got me to thinking, do you remember what you did two years ago today? Turns out,…
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Gratitude From a Southern Latitude
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Hey y’all, Hope here…another day & another Hopeservation, only this one is about a topic that I hold very near and dear to my heart and I would be so grateful if you take the time to read and consider it. In fact, this Hopeservation is about the vital importance of just that…GRATITUDE. So I first wrote a piece about gratitude back in January 2018, not because it was the first time I had ever thought about it or even written about it! Heck, I often post lists of things I am grateful for on my social media’s! Yet, I…
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Relax, Renew, Repeat
Some teacher’s count down the last few days of school, some even count from the beginning of the year. It’s cool, to each their own yet I have never been a counter. It’s not in me. Honestly, it’s mostly because I lose track of time. I’m kinda dingy like that. Furthermore what we do, we do with a servant’s heart. You truly do have to be passionate about giving and being of service to others to belong to this tribe of people. On the occasion I drive home in tears and think, “that’s it, I just can’t do this anymore,” something speaks to me and always brings my heart back…
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