~MATTERS OF THE HEART ~

Matters of the Heart

Head to Head

Eye to Eye

Heart to Heart

Nana's Girl!

I begin today's thoughts with

a "SHOUT OUT TO A VERY SPECIAL

YOUNG MAN NAMED

JONATHAN WONGALEE"

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JONNY WONG

in New Zealand

My good and very funny friend that often will

appear on my chat early in the morning!

This is Jonny Wong and Grandma

At His Birthday Celebration this year!

Master Jonny Wong tells me they had

5 Roasted Chickens, a whole ham, many cakes, vegetables, and assorted goodies just for him and his friends to devour on his special birthday celebration!

So

Happy Birthday my "Awesome, Fierce, Fab-U-lus, Artist, Rock-Star, Dragon-Boy, Hysterically Funny,  Comedian, With Great and Now Famous"

over there in New Zealand little Friend!

Jonny wants me to bring him to the USA; to see Disney, to be my bodyguard when I am on speaking engagements! He wants to see D.C., find gorgeous women here in the USA to hang with; to play in the ocean, and overall have a blast...

I of course had to tell him:

"Jonny Wong, you would have to fight the Godsons' over that, and over the time with the Godmother. And you would really have to fight for the position of body guard since that one has already been claimed by Buddy Pal #1!"

Happy Happy Birthday dear friend, how I enjoy our morning chats; you are like the sun shining from a distance... giving me great laughs along the way... Jonny was one of the first "fans" on the Facebook Fan page I just might add!

So what a Monday morning it is... a holiday I'm thinking since after all... It is Jonny Wong's birthday after all, but by the time this is being written he will have already celebrated and received his brand new Playstation or XBox or whatever it is that he has so longed for and wished to be his this year!

And what a lovely Grandma who loves him so, along with parents and a brother named Ben all together under one roof there in New Zealand.

Monday Morning and life is beautiful... the greens ever so green; the hibiscus in all their glory with the reds brilliant as are the orange, yellow and new

Dr Betancourt rust/reddish orange with purple center color that he grafted

and

gifted to us! I can't wait to see the other one that should be absolutely "sick"!

#1 Buddy Pal off the hook at the Atlantic Ocean while little #2 Buddy Pal is at camp and already in football practice in Radford, VA as a "little Bobcat" and boy oh boy... he is "fierce" on the field!

Nana's girl Olivia is on the swim team in Maryland and quite a competitor and also made the all star soccer team again this year.

Pedro and the others from Brazil were thrilled to here that Olivia plays soccer... they were so proud of Brazil in the World Cup this year!

Fierce soccer players in Brazil they are...

as is Nana's girl...

You should see her defend that goal at 10 years old.

Can you say:

 "Olympics here they come"!!!

Marvelous Monday is here... STOMP

Thinkin about those "matters of the heart" this morning... Marvelous Monday Matters of the heart!

Have a heart... Be the heart you have... Take your pulse... Feel the power behind the beat...

STOMP

Celebrate the YOU in each heart beat. Feel it, really feel it when you think about it ...

It is truly awe-inspiring isn't it?

Physically ~ Emotionally ~ Spiritually ~Mindfully

Matters of The Heart



Isn’t love a bit like the wind?
You don’t see it in yourself, but you feel it in every fiber of your being.

What other emotion is greater than love.

I know for sure that the reason we connect love as coming from, and dwelling in our hearts, is that without a working heart, there is no life.

Without love in our hearts, there is no life worth living.


We need to love people and use things.

Not use people and love things.
 For in the giving of love, we receive love.

It’s a magical, unexplainable consequence of the hearts goodness.

 Our hearts are the source of love. Just look at that picture of Nana's girl... she radiates "love" {{{sigh}}}

 Our minds, the conduit which governs the heart.

What a team they make.
Feelin me on this Monday???

When our hearts are full of love, and our minds are not distracted by lesser issues, we feel whole.
I'm talking ... we then OUTSHINE THE SUN!!! 

We feel grounded. STOMP, feel the Mother Earth beneath your feet and say "thank-you" with true gratitude ~

We experience a greater value in our lives.

So we must make the conscious choice to let love take root first in our hearts.
Anchor it there firmly.
Teach our mind to acknowledge the love that lives in our hearts, and act from that sacred place. Rejoice, laugh, Dance, and be grateful ~


So there is the recognition of the love we have to give, realization that we need to be loved, and the very real knowledge that If we deny love that is given to us, because we fear the pain of it’s loss, than our hearts will be empty, our loss greater.


I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love.

You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward someone who needs help, someone you can visually see thrive with the gift of a smile from a stranger.

There is no mistaking love.
You feel it deeply, in your heart.

 "It is the common fiber of life, the flame of that heats our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to that which is the best in us, and in each other". Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The mind can be a reservoir of millions of thoughts, but the heart must hold only one feeling, and that surely is love.

Let our hearts, filled with the gift of love given and received, govern the mind, the spirit, the soul. CELEBRATE!!! You have the power and gifts to know and to receive the power of love!

If we think first with our heart, act from this life giving, loving reservoir, speak from the heart full of love, we will enrich our own life.
Of course it is also sage counsel to try and not wear your heart on your sleeve, but to keep it within... your chest, and your being!

We will leave a tender footprint on humankind, and I can only hope to leave a heart-print in your mind and soul!

"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart." ~Benjamin Franklin ~

When Olivia, mama Joan and I are together; when we laugh or when we snuggle; or when we sit head to head, eye to eye and heart to heart... we are connected in mind, body, spirit ~ Our hearts speak with no need for words, our connection will hold until the next time we are together, our love transcends time and space... My heart overflows with deep love and gratitude then, now and forever more... Just as the wind sends that love from FL to MD the connection is always there... felt by Olivia, her Mom and me... often hearing their laughter on the winds, their touch as the wind touches and blows through my hair, we are together with the ties that bind our hearts...
"Hearts connected know no separation" only gladness and strength with each beat in the dance of life ~

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
{Dr Seuss} Love is that marvelous thing that happens when the heart is involved and it is a marvelous feeling of strength that adds to the richness of your life! Dr Seuss says it all doesn't he?

Are you spreading the love today? Thinking about who you can call to just sing out loud to?
"I just called to say.... I LOVE YOU" LOL
Now doesn't that just make you forget it's Monday morning, and have a Friday attitude already?

STOMP, go for it my friends... Remember:
LIFE IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL.
THIS IS IT!

Let's Get This Party Started ~

How's that for a picture of

MATTERS OF THE HEART

LOVE AT ITS FINEST

Nana's Girl and "the Mama"

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!"

(Dr Seuss)

The fire is burning brightly with thoughts on the winds of hope in healing; strength in all ways to all those who enter here... We are with you, we are Warriors here, ready to send our best thoughts, our best wishes... We stand strong for and with those out there fighting the fight, battling their battles... We along with some powerful angels are with you, you are never alone...

SAVE OUR BEAUTIFUL GULF ~

Sending hope in healing on the winds to all who gather here and for all in Tampa, the families of the fallen, those in blue who are grieving while they are serving and protecting us.

To those who are serving this great Nation, I thank you and your families, I want you home safely.

We are together in prayer, in thoughts of all that is needed to remind you out there, we are WARRIORS... we are with you, along with some powerful angels... May you find comfort in knowing we are with you always:

Special prayers and thoughts to my dearest Dr Bernice Catherine Harper ~ with love during this difficult time; my arms are around you always.


FOR:Tampa, our Mayor, Chief Jane Castor, Tampa PD, all who serve: Tink..and Mitch,

Trish, Barb, Anastasia, The Kocab Family, baby Lilly Nicole Kocab, Curtis Family, Tarpon PD, those serving here and there in Uniform...

Randy and Winnie in New Mexico, Irene M, Bernice, Eileen, Ali and family, Dorothy, Angela, Elijah, Ode, Linda M, "Southwest VA", Vicki and Matthew, Chris,

Our new adopted family in BRAZIL, (sure would like to go and swim with the dolphins there)!,



Our Black American Bears Lily and HOPE, their spunky spirit,
 and Jill, the folks at the NABC, Joseph, Cathy Madden and her family.,  Cindy in NC, Cindy C, Laura, Mitch and family, Liz, Lee, Molly, Joanie, Jude, COFA,Judi, Matthew, Matt, Mark's family and many friends , Andrea, Jimmy, Marie and family up in New England, Pat, Irene, Kevin, Dr D, Deb, Randy, Dr B , Charlie and family, Jean, Julie, Rhonda, Victoria, Mildred, Andi and family, Faith, Denise, Jim, Tom, Joey, Shelby friends and family, Judi, Phylis, Joyce, Gina, Tonya, Beverly and Family, Janeth, Melissa, Pam, Virginia, Stacey, Kevin Edward Belevich and his Pops Jack Phelan, Elizabeth, Nita, Gary Siegal, Adrienna,Brian Mawbey,

Please hold the friends and family of these people in your hearts and prayers ~ just because

Walk In Beauty,

DRSES

author of

Healing Heartaches, Stories of Loss and Life



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