Month: June 2026

My Abundant Life 6-24-26

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June 24th, 2026

Splendor in the Vase: Living with Flowers

“I’d rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck.”

Emma Goldman (Writer; June 27th, 1869 to May 14th, 1940)

“One has the illusion of being an artist painting—Putting a dash of color here, taking out another dash of color there, until the whole composition is to one’s liking.”

Vita Sackville-West (Author & Garden Designer; March 9th, 1892 to June 2nd, 1962)

“Gardening is very creative and artistic….much like painting or cooking.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 224 to 225 of 501.

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My Musical Life 6-23-26

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June 23rd, 2026

#85 Come Together (The Beatles) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me🪄
Here come old flat-top, he come grooving up slowly
He got ju-ju eyeball, he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker, he just do what he please🪄
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me🪄
He wear no shoeshine, he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger, he shoot coca-cola
He say, “I know you, you know me”
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free🪄
Come together, right now
Over me🪄
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me🪄
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease🪄
Come together, right now
Over me🪄
Shoot me
Right
Come, come, come, come, come🪄
He roller-coaster, he got early warnin’
He got muddy water, he one mojo filter
He say, “One and one and one is three”
Got to be good-lookin’, ’cause he’s so hard to see🪄
Come together, right now
Over me🪄
Shoot me
Shoot me
Shoot me
Oh🪄
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah
Oh
Come together, yeah
Come together, yeah

My Abundant Life 6-23-26

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June 23rd, 2026

Midsummer Night’s Dreams

“Now is the high-tide of year,

And whatever of life hath ebbed away

Comes flooding back with ripply cheer

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it,

We are happy now, because God wills it.”

James Russell Lowell (Poet & Former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom; February 22nd, 1819 to August 12th, 1891)

“Life is to be enjoyed, not saddled with…”

Tasha Tudor (American Illustrator & Writer; August 28th, 1915 to June 18th, 2008)

“‘Take joy’ from each day. This is a catechism we should all embrace to experience Heaven on earth.”

1st Commandment of the Stillwater religion

“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian Author; November 30th, 1874 to April 24th, 1942)

“Learning to BE present has afforded me the capacity to be enlivened by the smallest of pleasures to the same magnitude as something splendid. To BE alive is the magic.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 222 to 224 of 501.

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Daily Gratitude 6-22-26

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June 22nd, 2026

  • I return to the basics of life: forgiveness, courage, gratitude, love, and humor.
  • I am creating a life that feels good and I am in charge of my happiness.
  • Happiness is within me. I base my happiness on my own accomplishments and the blessings I’ve been given.
  • I am humble and continue to learn every day.
  • Being kind toward others is very important to me, and I exercise kindness throughout my day.

My Musical Life 6-22-26

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June 22nd, 2026

#83 Something (The Beatles) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how🪄
Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don’t need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how🪄
You’re asking me will my love grow
I don’t know, I don’t know
You stick around, now it may show
I don’t know, I don’t know🪄
Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me
I don’t want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

My Abundant Life 6-22-26

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June 22nd, 2026

The Gourmet Victory Garden

“It’s difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a home-grown tomato.”

Lewis Grizzard (American Writer; October 20th, 1946 to March 20th, 1994)

“In the 1940s, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered ‘victory gardens’ as part of the war effort. Domestic propaganda exhorted women to remember that ‘waste during war is sabotage,’ and American women answered the patriotic call by growing more than a million tons of vegetables a year—half of what the home front annually consumed—backyard plots.”

“And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

Alice B. Toklas (American Writer; April 30th, 1877 to March 7th, 1967)

“I am so thankful my parents taught me to garden. We grew up poor and our garden is where we felt richest with delicious and nutritious food.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 221 to 222 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.

Daily Gratitude 6-21-26

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June 21st, 2026

  • Each day even if it’s for a few minutes I’m going to stop and be grateful for all of life’s beauty.
  • Every day I’m going to be more mindful of all of the small blessings that I should be thankful for.
  • I am thankful that with each experience I become a better version of myself.
  • I create the possibility of happiness for others by being happy.
  • It does not matter what other people say or do. What matters is how I choose to react and what I choose to believe about myself.

My Musical Life 6-21-26

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June 21st, 2026

#82 Oh What A Night (The Dells) 👍🏼

Lyrics:
Oh, what a night to love you dear
Oh, what a night to hold you near
Oh, what a night to squeeze you dear
That’s why I love you so🪄
Oh, what a night to love you dear
Oh, what a night to want you dear
Oh, what a night to kiss you dear
That’s why I love you so🪄
I won’t forget all those things
You have told to me
The craze in my heart
Won’t let me forget your love🪄
Oh, what a night to love you dear
Oh, what a night to want you dear
Oh what a night to kiss you dear
That’s why I love you so🪄
Oh, what a night to love you dear
Oh, what a night to want you dear
Oh what a night to kiss you dear
That’s why I love you so🪄
No, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
One more night, I wanna hold you one more night
I wanna make love to you one more night
I want you baby, I want you baby
I need you baby, I love you baby
One more night

My Abundant Life 6-21-26

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June 21st, 2026

Bloom Where You’re Planted

“Bloom where you’re planted.”

Mary Engelbreit (Artist; June 5th, 1952)

“Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.”

May Sarton (Belgian-American Novelist & Poet; May 3rd, 1912 to July 16th, 1995)

“Being a late bloomer means that you have the time and the opportunity to revise and revamp if you experiment with life and fall short of your dreams. We late bloomers can risk more because at this point nobody really expects anything spectacular from us anymore. We can reinvent ourselves or give birth to our authentic selves we rediscover and reclaim our essence.”

“As I have tried and failed and tried again, I have discovered that if we are to flourish as creative beings, if we are o grow into Wholeness, we must bloom wherever we are planted. Right now, you might not have the perfect career, home, or relationship. Few of us do. But if you have the gift of today, you’ve got another chance to re-create your circumstances and make them as perfect as it’s possible to do with the resources you have. Today, you get another chance to get it as right as you can make it. What more could you desire?”

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. …And if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright & Critic; July 26th, 1856 to November 2nd, 1950)

“I am so thankful for my experience in professional athletics. I learned these lessons early in my life and was able to reignite them again when I needed as my marriage was predictably failing. I chose to make my circumstances versus waiting for life to happen to me.”

–Ban Breathnach, Sarah. “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy”. Grand Central Publishing. (1976). Kindle Page 220 to 221 of 501.

I challenge each of you on this blog series to post comments so we all can grow together.