Photo by Angie Quantrell
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International Women’s Day #IWD2019
Happy International Women’s Day!
If you are a woman, be blessed and do not take for granted the gifts, skills, and life you have been given.
If you are a woman, be thankful for your ability to give to and care for others.
If you are a woman, look for opportunities to uphold and support other women who need you.
If you are a woman, be generous with your affections and assistance, energy and engagement.
If you are a woman, acknowledge your capabilities, opportunities, and strengths. Own your faults and take responsibility for your failures. Realize you cannot do it all.
If you are a woman, exude kindness. Treat others as you would have them treat you. Remember you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Be nice even to those who are not.
If you are a woman, embrace relationships, both near and far, with family, friends, and strangers.
If you are a woman, be at peace. Love, accept, strive to improve yourself. Delve deep to learn your faith. Stretch to exercise and grow strong.
If you are a woman, rely on God, do not be afraid to trust. Seek and find.
If you are a woman, live to the fullest. Be present in the day. Give focus and attention to those around you.
If you are a woman, rejoice! To be a woman is a gift.
Today, I gave blood at the Red Cross. For women, men, children-whoever needs red blood. Regardless of race, education, income, culture, residence. Because we bleed the same. Red.
Loving with red.
How about you? Did you celebrate International Women’s Day?
Holiday Haiku – 25 Days of Christmas Haiku: gift
pinterest attempt,
Baby, Christmas gift, story
told in painted rock
gift
by Angie Quantrell
Thanks for joining me on a Christmas Haiku journey as I celebrate with words, thoughts, and photos that take me deep into my family’s Christmas traditions. Read more Christmas Haiku here.
May this Season of Light brighten your life and fill your heart with true gifts.
Holiday Haiku – 25 Days of Christmas Haiku: deliver
packages and gifts
bring joy; Baby gift foretold
virgin delivers
Thanks for joining me on a Christmas Haiku journey as I celebrate with words, thoughts, and photos that take me deep into my family’s Christmas traditions. Read more Christmas Haiku here.
May this Season of Light brighten your life and fill your heart with gifts of joy.
Throwback Thursday: The Suitcase
I know we had this exact set of luggage.
Fingerhut, the mail order catalog, lured us into purchasing the complete set. Travel was at the top of my list, and we needed luggage. My family enjoyed many happy vacations and travel adventures using these beauties.
But this set was not my first foray into luggage acquisition. Years earlier, for graduation, I had requested luggage. You can tell something about a person by the choices she makes. Travel and adventure is high on my list, as evidenced by repeated attempts to procure baggage (of the traveling sort). Though I’ve got suitcases full of the other baggage, for free.
The original set of luggage, oh my. Ugly as dog poo. Make that baby poo, because it was the same awful orange-yellow-mustardy color. Naugahyde and built to last. Only it didn’t last as long as our many years of trips and is now lost in dump land. Or perhaps it is making the rounds through different thrift stores, living in the garages of other bright-eyed wanderlust humans.
What gifts or purchases have you made in the past that reflect who you are?
A Photo Becomes A Painting
A photo tells a story.
At the end of a recent vacation, I shot a selfie of the two of us, relaxed and replete after several days of downtime and fun. This picture is one of my favorites.
Factor in one of Kevin’s co-workers, Kathy Bensch. She wanted to do a painting of us for Kevin’s office. Just because. We gave her a copy of our favorite photo.
Et voila! There we are, in living water color. Thank you, Kathy! Perfect!
Not that the painting will ever make it to Kevin’s office…I do have some ideas on how to share.
But I think this painting looks great in the RV.
Unexpected Gift Perfectly Suits
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A purrfect gift. @AngieQuantrell |
By Angie Quantrell @AngieQuantrell
We were recently given a handmade gift that perfectly suited our family.
As we served an appreciation luncheon for co-workers, a certain woman, well-known for her hospitality and kindness, walked up to me and delivered a gift.
Since this luncheon was for them, I was not expecting a gift. We were doing the giving. But in her thoughtfulness, she remembered us with a hostess treasure.
When time allowed, I dug into the package and discovered a large, white hand-embroidered dish towel. Beautiful!
The homemade varieties are the best sort, are they not?
I quickly went to her table to thank her for the thoughtful gift. That was when I discovered four reasons the unexpected gift perfectly suited our family.
1. We are facing a shortage of decent dish towels. I prefer to use them until they are rags. We are breathing down the neck of the rag stage.
2. The embroidery neatley featured a cat. We love cats and have two terrorist cats of our own.
3. The embroidered cat was gray. Aha! Both of our monsters are affectionately called the Gray Girls.
4. The towel design included a cat clock of the old fashioned sort. We have a cat clock, of the new fashioned type.
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I decided to use the dish towel as a mini-tablecloth. For now. @AngieQuantrell |
A simple dish towel delivered true joy and pleasure for the one who was trying to give appreciation.
Have you ever received a perfect, unexpected gift?
Love, Laughter, and Life 