Enjoy! Smile!

"A smile is a beautiful thing. It attracts. It heals. It can even touch. Smiles are born from deep inside. And we need to nourish them. Give them plenty of exercise. Then watch them grow."

And maybe even laugh. Laughing really is the best medicine.

I dare say, that's pretty sound advice.

"I remember thinking in school how I would grow up and would protect my students from unpleasant impressions, from uncertainty, from scrappy learning," Friedl Dicker-Brandeis wrote to a friend in 1940. "Today only one thing seems important — to rouse the desire towards creative work, to make it a habit, and to teach how to overcome difficulties that are insignificant in comparison with the goal to which you are striving."

...I've been thinking about this wonderful Austrian woman today. She taught art classes in a transit Concentration Camp called Terezin and filled two suitcases full of 4, 500 pieces of Children's art during the Holocaust.

London-"if you're tired of london then you're tired of life" as I read at the national gallery this afternoon. Really a lovely place full of flare.


For instance, just got back from king's cross. You know, platform 9 3/4. Everyone who loves Ron was there, so of course that had to be my very last tube stop.


Which brings me to the next magical thing of London, the tube! Underground then suddenly in a brand new place exactly where you want to be or even where you didn't even know where you wanted to be! Today we got lost for one moment in our group of friends. We decided to find her by what we were feeling. We turned a wrong corner and with many silent prayers in our hearts, we found our missing friend-within seconds of leaving on the tube to search for her at the next stop. Now that is not magical. That is a blessing.


Conclusion: London is full of blessings. And on that note no one is really lucky- their blessed.


Quote of the day: "For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness, For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people, For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry, For Beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day,
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn