smile and enjoy

boy #3 has written a play in one act (a class assigment) just imagine what it's about:) I will fill you in on his reviews:)

“Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world”
Maria Montessori

Smilemaker's enjoys the rush:)

If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant rememberance of the divine?



Paul Brunton

Smilemaker's personal credo 2008

In one of my classes I had to write a personal Credo as an assignment so I want to share it with you:)


Personal Credo:
The rainbow is not just a path to gold, but the colorful expression of the joy in the journey.


Rainbows are optical and meteorological phenomena that cause a spectrum of light to appear in the sky when the Sun shines onto droplets of moisture in the Earth's atmosphere. They take the form of a multicoloured arc, with red on the outer part of the arch and violet on the inner section of the arch. More rarely, a secondary rainbow is seen, which is a second, fainter arc, outside the primary arc, with colours in the opposite order, that is, with violet on the outside and red on the inside.

if you have time and what to laugh, watch this rainbow remix, it will make you laugh:

smilemaker needs a smile;)

“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker

too much to do and not enough time:) if you have been following my journey, it has been to say the least interesting, I am approaching a fork in the road and am excited about the future:)



HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON # 3 HE IS THE MUSIC TO OUR SONGS:)

smilemaker has a smile about the road :)

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.


Everywhere you look, there are small ways for you to make a positive difference. String enough of them together, and absolutely anything is within your reach.

-- Ralph Marston

He is risen:) 2008

let go of your cross:)

have you been carrying a cross lately? it is time to let go of it? let him take it from you , you have three days to release it and enjoy in the blessings of the ressurection.




WHAT IS THE TRIDUUM?

The most solemn and joyful celebration of the Christian calendar is the period from Maundy Thursday through Holy Saturday. Worship on these days or evenings are traditionally considered to be parts of an unbroken liturgical service called the Triduum (Latin for "Three Days"). In the earliest days of the Christian church, the events we commemorate in the Triduum were celebrated in one day and night's continuous worship service called the Pascha (from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word for "Passover").

smilemaker joy:)

Smilemaker:) get ready the biggest week ever for prayer:)

my strong women 40 days are over:) we all need to take just one aspect of some of them and we will reach our smiles: right now read and enjoy the moment for what it is:)

A burden you don't deserve

It's easy to blame someone else for your troubles. Yet when you're truly honest with yourself, it's clear that blaming someone else will not add the slightest bit of value to your life.
It seems fair and reasonable to expect your problems to be solved by the people who caused them, but stop and think about it. Do you really wish to give those people who caused your problems any additional control over your life and your future?

To move your life in the direction you choose to go, you must be willing to take full responsibility for it. That means moving past what's easy and accepting that things are not always going to be fair.

Perhaps life has given you a burden you don't deserve. Instead of seeing that as an excuse to give up, see it as an opportunity to give more.

Though you may not have brought the troubles upon yourself, you can nevertheless make positive use of them. Choose to take full responsibility for your own situation, and you'll begin to see how you can rise from it to a level that's higher than ever before.

Real success does not result from everything going perfectly. Real success comes when you're willing to move forward no matter what may happen.

-- Ralph Marston

a big smilemaker moment:)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Elenor Roosevelt ...
Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962
American

She was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 to promote her husband's (Franklin D. Roosevelt's) New Deal, as well as Civil Rights. She was the most activist First Lady the country had ever seen. After her husband's death in 1945 she built a career as an author-speaker, a New Deal Coalition advocate and spokesperson for human rights. She was a suffragist who worked hard to enhance the status of working women, opposing the Equal Rights Amendment) because it would hurt them. In the late 1940s she became a leader in supporting the United Nations, the United Nations Association and Freedom House. She was appointed by President Truman to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, a position she held until 1953. She was chairman of the Human Rights Commission during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948. President Harry S. Truman called her the First Lady of the World in honor of her extensive human rights promotions.

My two favorite salseros:)

India and Marc sang together years ago, check out his hair:) also , she is a BA smokes cigars like my Granny and I just love a BA women, I am growing into one each day and love it:)





La India (born Linda Viera Caballero on March 9, 1970) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-nominated noted singer of salsa also known as the "Princess of Salsa".

Smilemaker is proud of her homegirl:)

Sila María Calderón Serra (born September 23, 1942) was the seventh Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico from 2001 to 2005. She is the first and to date only woman ever elected to that office. Prior to being Governor, Calderón held various positions in the Government of Puerto Rico, including Secretary of State and Chief of Staff. She was also Mayor of San Juan, the Capital of Puerto Rico.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
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Anna Quindlen

Is there a female doctor in the house?

1832 Elizabeth Blackwell receives her M.D. degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. with a medical degree.

The art of medicine is in amusing a patient while nature affects the cure."
Voltaire

this is the real holy Teresa of Avila:)

If this is the way you treat your friends, it's no wonder you have so few!”

St. Teresa of Avila quotes (Spanish Nun, Mystic and Writer, 1515-1582)


“Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing; God never changeth.”
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St. Teresa of Avila quotes (Spanish Nun, Mystic and Writer, 1515-1582)



“We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can / namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”
St. Teresa of Avila quotes (Spanish Nun, Mystic and Writer, 1515-1582)




“Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.”
St. Teresa of Avila quotes (Spanish Nun, Mystic and Writer, 1515-1582)



“How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?”

St. Teresa of Avila quotes

Thank you Patsy:)

Patsy Sherman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1930. After college graduation, she joined 3M as a research chemist and was assigned to work on fluorochemical polymers. Patsy Sherman was one of very few women chemists to work for a major corporation when she was hired by 3M in 1952. Her work was an essential part of the introduction of 3M’s first stain repellent and soil release textile treatments which have grown into an entire family of products known as Scotchgard ® protectors.

If you think things can't get worse it's probably only because you lack sufficient imagination.

I love Westside;)

They made me use an accent, which I wasn't thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don't have them.”
Rita Moreno quote

Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a singer, dancer and an Academy Award-winning actress and the first female and only Puerto Rican actress in history to have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award.[

a real smile:)

Beware if you are judgemental and super religious do not read today's motivational women:)
but remember we will all be in heaven together:)






Candis Cayne is an American actress and transsexual performer best known for her appearances in the New York City club scene.[1] Nationally, she appeared in the independent films Wigstock: The Movie, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar and Stonewall. As of October 2007 she plays transgender mistress Carmelita on ABC's primetime soap Dirty Sexy Money making her the first transsexual to play a transsexual in prime time.

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid For such disguise as haply shall become The form of my intent.
V from V for Vendetta

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
Gordon Deitrich from V for Vendetta

When I grow up:)

Esmeralda attended the University Harvard on a full scholarship. She graduated from Harvard in 1976. After studying film production Esmeralda and her husband Cantor started a film and media production know as cantomedia. Cantomedia has won many awards for excellence in documentary filmmaking.

She also found time to write some great books, one of my favorite: When I was Puerto Rican
When I grow up I want to be like her.

Smilemaker loves Hearts at home:)

Jill Savage is an author and speaker who is passionate about encouraging families. She is the founder and executive director of Hearts at Home, an organization designed to encourage and educate women in the profession of motherhood.

Hannah Solomon :)

Solomon was not only the celebrated founder of the National Council of Jewish Women, but also an important force for reform in turn-of-the-century Chicago. Her work grew out of her sense that "woman's sphere is the whole wide world." But at the same time she believed a woman's primary responsibility was to her family. For Solomon, there was no more powerful role than that of the Jewish mother.

Above all, Solomon's commitment and energy were legendary. As one sister quipped, "We know that it is useless to attempt to stop you in your mad career, that ere the winter has passed, the only field of your activity will be a spot marked by a marble slab bearing the inscription, 'Gone to another meeting. Locality uncertain. Return indefinite!'"

Smilmemaker's smile for the day:)

As an artist with Hallmark™ since 1970, John Wagner created Maxine in 1986 as a new character line for the Shoebox Greetings™ card division. He created a brazen older woman with a stooped back, a mop of curly gray hair and abrasive personality. Wagner's mom, grandmother and unmarried aunts provided inspiration for the comic creation. Maxine took on an individuality of her own, taking sheer delight in making high-spirited, crabby remarks about almost everything. Though she was truly funny, the character had the staff at Hallmark™ concerned. and after so many years who is still around:)


I have a one-step program for dealing with stress. Well, one step and a kick to be exact.
-Caffine is for people who feel they aren't irritable enough on their own.
-The greatest thing about cordless phones is instead of hanging them up on people, you can just throw them.
-Sometimes the days just fly by--except for the day when you have to wait for the cable guy.
-My idea of a high-stress job is any job where you have to work with other people.
-Found something at the swimsuit shop I was really comfortable in. The dressing room.

She makes me smile:)

Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian, radio host, TV personality, game show host, and author.
She is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel). She has won two Golden Globe Awards and two Saturn Awards for her performances in Star Trek Generations and Ghost.


“We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
wolfdyke
Whoopi Goldberg

she is a strong woman

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama (center)
Born January 17, 1964 (age 44)
Chicago, Illinois
Residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
Education A.B. in sociology (Princeton University) cum laude
JD (Harvard Law School)
Occupation Vice President for Community and External Affairs at University of Chicago Hospitals
Religious beliefs Christian
Spouse Barack Obama (1992–present)
Children Malia and Sasha
Parents Frasier Robinson and Marian Robinson
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964)[1] is an American lawyer and the wife of Illinois senator Barack Obama, who is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for United States President. She was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois and then educated at Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

hotlantic mayor:)

Shirley Clarke Franklin (born May 10, 1945) is an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and, since January 7, 2002, the mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, a nonpartisan office. The 58th mayor of Atlanta, she was the first female to hold the post and became the first black woman to be elected mayor of any major Southern city.[1] Franklin is the fourth black mayor of Atlanta, the latest in a line of African American mayors that stretches back to 1974

this quote reminds me of Shirley:

just do what must be done. this may not be happiness,but it is greatness: bernard shaw