Tag Archives: Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home…

Posted on 09/02/2013 | 84 Comments

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” Benjamin Franklin

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home... Mongoose Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Mongoose Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home... Mongoose Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Mongoose Home

Most of us are familiar with the quote “Home is where the heart is…” It is one of my favorites as I heard it quite often when I was growing up. We moved a lot and it became a mantra of sorts as we prepared for our next home in a new city. My dad had a strong work ethic which brought promotions for him and a move for all of us. We also moved several times during a war, and that period of our life left an indelible mark on me; I learned that we must cherish what we have, and love where we rest our heart and head. The Mongoose above have learned that and share their space happily. For this challenge, I’ve chosen to add pictures of other life forms in their homes or habitat. We may call them home lessons learned from other life forms.

“Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.” Oliver Wendell Holmes

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Nyala at Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Nyala at Home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Tangy at home

Weekly Photo Challenge: Home… Tangy at home

A while back, I took a trip to the Bronx Zoo and was nicely surprised at how hard the staff worked to make the animals feel at home. They recreated their natural habitat and gave them plenty of room to roam. Now, I think of life on the Serengeti and imagine how, for the Nyala antelope above, it would be one fraught with danger from man and beast. Here, they were relaxed and unperturbed by our presence… Tangy, our family cat, creates new homes in bags and boxes and anything he can climb into. He knows he is loved and when he isn’t on the computer, he chills out. Home is where we find love and peace.  More below!

Continue reading →

About these ads

→ 84 Comments

Posted in Love Life, Positive Advice, Posts & Photos 2013, Weekly Photo Challenge

Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

Reflections: Feeling The Glow Of Love…

Posted on 28/07/2011 | 38 Comments

“A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.” George Jean Nathan

Reflections: Feeling The Glow Of Love… floating up and glowing brightly


Betty Wright – Tonight Is The Night


Diana Ross – Love Hangover

When was the last time you felt like you were glowing with the deepest joy and walking on air? Better yet, where were you when you heard  Tonight Is The Night,  Love Hangover  or  The Glow of Love? How about …. name your in-the-mood-for-love song? Flowers blooming, bodies gyrating, wine sipping, music blasting, and there you are drowsy with love with a huge grin on your face… go back there. How, you may ask?  Start with the memorable music that took you there, kick off your high heels, hike up your skirt, and slowly move those hips, arms, shoulders, and feet, till you feel that tingly sensation flowing right through your veins, and then smile… What was his name? her name? What was that first rapturous kiss like? (not your first lousy kiss, honey) … and the rest? You are there already!

“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.”  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections: Feeling The Glow Of Love… it is in the music and in us…


Change - The Glow Of Love

You see, blasting our amps with the right music has the power to bring back that glowing love magic, and take us back to memorable moments in our lives when even our friends wondered what drug we had imbibed; we hadn’t. Nonesuch. Self love, like Love in a romantic liaison, is intoxicating and we can tap into that space/place with the flick of a switch, the right music, song, story, and heck, the presence of the right kind of joyful energy. Some of us are stuck on what others would think and so we starve ourselves of the sheer joy of being human with real needs and feelings.

Quite frankly my dear, no one really gives damn so get on up and do your thing; start with the music, the dance, the smile, and watch yourself transform into whomever you desire to be…  200 times over.   Instead of sitting around waiting for Ms./Mr. Goodbar to drop in with her/his shit, go create your own joy and then watch happens next.  Will the glow dissipate? No, unless you stop affirming yourself, your goals, and your desires. Now get to it! What do you think? More below… ;-)

Continue reading →

→ 38 Comments

Posted in Musical Notes, Positive Advice, Post A Day 2011

Tagged , , , , , , , , ,

Inspiration: Ten Things A Dream Home Must Have…

Posted on 25/07/2011 | 26 Comments

“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve;  it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind …  cast-off and everyday clothing.”  Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspiration: Ten Things A Dream Home Must Have... Home is where the heart finds peace

Last fall, I wrote a post on my Positive Kismet blog about My Dream Home, it had all the razzmatazz one could imagine, featured some truly spectacular properties, and I had fun writing it. We know that if we gathered a group of friends to chat about their dream homes, lots of wonderful things would pop up especially around space, location, design, and such. But, this time around, I chose a different route… Why? Because ‘home’ is more than the physical location we often imagine. It extends beyond that to spaces that evoke the sense of being home…

For this Daily Post prompt, Describe Your Dream Home, I decided to try a different approach and imagine things that capture our memories of home. We can step away from the usual physical items that come to mind and imagine things that really matter to us in a dream home; perhaps the obvious things we all crave in life and desire to have often in our homes; love, joy, laughter and such. You know, the things that build the energy and interior memory of a great home… the things that help us gain a new perspective on the subject.

“There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never known beyond its hallowed limits”  Robert Southey

Inspiration: Ten Things A Dream Home Must Have... home is where our dreams of the Milky Way are nurtured

As I thought about this prompt, the famous song above, A House is Not A Home, came to mind and took me back to fun days in the 1980s when life was full of adventure and we came home full of stories and expectations. My soulful friend Luther Vandross used to sing, “A house is not a home when there’s no one there to hold you tight and no one there you can kiss goodnight…” Sure, a home without people and love is not quite a home. Even if we are single or widowed, our friends/family can bring us cheer, and there are things all of us can look for/aim for in our dream homes … Luther adds some of those to the song too and, for your karaoke pleasures, I added the lyrics to the song below… Hey, music, love and joy begin with us! :lol: Below are my Ten Things A Dream Home Must Have; my list of ten must haves…

♥The sound of laughter ringing through its walls; where dreams and dreads are equally shared and heard
♥Love embracing one and all; where hugs, happy moments, and loving admonishments are given freely
♥Food to heal and satisfy all hunger; where food joyfully prepared for the soul includes body, mind and spirit
♥A place to rest and rejuvenate; where rest is sweet and sleep is deep
♥Friends and family to chat with and celebrate; where music, dance, art and play join hands with pleasant memories
Do share some of yours. What would you add?  More below. ;-)

Continue reading →

→ 26 Comments

Posted in Positive Advice, Post A Day 2011

Tagged , , , , , , ,