a smile for smilemaker jersey;)))))

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn

I am aware of whispers and stories which have been around for a while about many things:) but I enjoy watching the people who have told them squirm and avoid eye contact because they fear that I will try to speak to them:) God is good because he allows me to see them while they are alone and powerless, the power they lack is that the stories are not true:)))))) and they know they have spread untruths:))

fear does have a color it's the white lie:)))

Smilemaker wants a moment

This moment is what it is
Choose to accept all that comes your way and in it you will find great value. Resist the urge to impose your judgment on the people, places, things and events that surround you, and you'll connect with many more possibilities.
To make the very best of any situation, you must first acknowledge and accept the reality of what it is. That provides you with a valuable starting point from which you can move in any direction you choose.

To deny or to fight against what has already happened will merely waste your energy and resources. To wish that things had been different, or to pretend that they are, will do you no good.

Instead, visualize what can be in all the richness and detail that you can imagine. Then find a step you can take right now that will lead you in the direction of your dream.

Losers argue about what has happened and who is at fault, and put their energy into resentment for what is. Winners choose the life they wish to create, and find a way to move toward it from any situation.

This moment is here and now, and this moment is what it is. Accept it fully, with enthusiasm and gratitude, and take a big step in the direction of your dream.

-- Ralph Marston

Smilemaker is reaching a goal soon:)

Have a goal
When you're not headed in any particular direction, that's where you'll end up arriving -- nowhere. When you have no specific goal in mind, that's what you'll end up accomplishing -- not much.
Sometimes it can be truly helpful and enlightening to wander without a clear destination and to explore new territory. Yet if that's all you ever do, all that enlightenment will never be put to use.

When you give yourself a clear, specific goal, your actions take on the power of purpose. That can help to make you more creative, resourceful, persistent and effective.

Set a couple of goals for today, and you become far more likely to get those things done. Powerful forces, some of which you may not even realize or understand, are set in motion by your intentions.

Before you start to move forward, decide for yourself exactly what it means to move forward. Before you begin to take action, be sure you know the reason for that action.

You'll accomplish much more when you clearly know what you intend to accomplish. Get a goal, and you'll make it happen.

-- Ralph Marston

Smilemaker is fearless:)

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.


Rabindranath Tagore

TEC Friend

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
Ruth Benedict


a strong women who made us sit up and take notice, she would say what many would want to , but were afraid to , she taught me to stand up for what you believe in even when it seemed like a fruitless fight.
she will be missed, pray that one day we will meet our TEC friend in heaven .
TEC 1, 2, 3, she attended all of these and we remember her today.

always trust yourself:)

sometimes things just sound right to you and not to anyone else, this is a great example to always trust yourself:)

smile at excellence:)

“Excellence can be obtained if you:

...care more than others think is wise;

...risk more than others think is safe;

...dream more than others think is practical;

...expect more than others think is possible.”

Smile and remember to share it :)

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?



Dorothy Day

smile & enjoy the journey

I have said it before,
remember to enjoy the journey, we get so caught up in the trip that we forget to look around. take a moment today to realize how far you have come. and all the great things accomplished. that will surely make you smile and realize that the road ahead is less than the one behind.

DALE CARNEGIE:
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.


FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

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".