We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. This book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.  ~Burton Hillis

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

We don’t give thanks because we’re happy. We are happy because we give thanks.
~ The Secret of Saying Thanks by Douglas Wood

So a funny thing about this plaque … it is sort of, um, not quite right.

A few weeks ago, I read an amazing quote from The Organic Sister. But I read it incorrectly. I thought it said, “Create a home where love and acceptance drips from the walls and hangs from the ceiling.”

And it just STUCK. You know how that happens.

And I started imagining … I imagined that place. And I liked it a lot.

And then I thought about the word create in that sentence. And it felt so powerful. Somehow, I hadn’t thought about that word in that way before, that you can literally make a home that is such a safe and positive place to be, and that it doesn’t matter where you came from or how things were done or anything  — You can start today, to create a home where love and acceptance is palpable.

Like right there. All the time.

And so I made this little plaque.

Except the thing is, I read the actual quote wrong. Tara (the Organic Sister), who is such an amazing inspiration, actually wrote, “Create a home where love and acceptance drips from the walls and clings to the skin.”

So, yeah … Sort of different. (Barely even close, that last part.)

But I think it worked out.

In this place of love and acceptance, I’m sure it did.

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. ~ Evelyn Dunbar

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween. 
~Erma Bombeck

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. ~ Denis Waitley