On Sharing ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 27 Day 330 of 365 11/27/11

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, 

and sharing of pleasures.   For in the dew of 

little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

~Khalil Gibran

We should all share in our pleasures.   The smile is an outward expression of pleasure and kindness. A smile send out into the world so much positive energy.  It sends out the message of appreciation, of love, of joy, of acceptance and even more kindness.

It is hard to be filled with gratitude and not want to share joy, laughter and a smile.

 

Smiles can indeed be found anywhere when we truly look from the heart.

To share these finds, to share that joy, that expression of gratitude is so very needed in this world that seems to find new ways to hurt each other, each and every day.

We need to share and reach out out love, our kindness, our expression of acceptance and share our laughter that comes from within.

Laughter can cure our every growing illness of fear and worry.

A smile, a simple sincere smile can start to mend the broken spirit.

Taking time to pray and meditate and truly listen for that small still voice that says what is needed.

The voice that says you are loved, and you are a creation from the heavens.

We need to find our laughter, and share it.

We need to use our smile that resides with in and share it and light up another persons face and bring joy and love to them.

We can do it!  We should do it! We must do it! 

For when we share and give the love, it returns back in greater portions. 

Sharing and caring everyday will mend our pain and hurt.

Prayer and quiet time shared will inspire our soul.

Laughter and smiles shared will rebuild a hurting spirit.

Share these today.

As always smiles sent your way.... Today  and everyday  : )  Enjoy your day everyone : )

  

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On this day in history

1703 – The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703.


1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem's Church in Berlin is laid.


1815 – Adoption of Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland.


1830 – St. Catherine Laboure experiences a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.


1839 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.


1863 – American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.


1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.


1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.


1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.


1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.


1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.


1934 – Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.


1940 – World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.


1942 – World War II: At Toulon, the French navy scuttles its ships and submarines to keep them out of Nazi hands.


1944 – World War II: An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump at Fauld, Staffordshire kills seventy people.


1963 – The Convention on the Unification of Certain Points of Substantive Law on Patents for Invention is signed at Strasbourg.


1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his first address to Congress as president following the assassination of John F. Kennedy five days prior.


1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.


1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.


1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on December 6, the House confirmed him 387 to 35).


1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England.


1978 – In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.


1983 – Avianca Flight 011, a Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.


1989 – Avianca Flight 203, a Boeing 727, explodes in mid-air over Colombia, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground. The Medellín Cartel claimed responsibility for the attack.


1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.


1992 – For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela.


1999 – The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.


2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.


2004 – Pope John Paul II returns the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.


2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.


2006 – The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Quebec a nation within a unified Canada.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From BetterRecipes.com

PEPPERONI SOUP

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for another day of life for another day to make a difference.


I thank you for the nature outside of my door, thank you for sharing that.


Thanks for the goodness that surrounds me everyday may I be guided by my spirit to focus on those things instead of any the negative.

Help me to be kinder and gentler with myself, and more positive with my words.


May my self talk and expression flow towards the empowerment of my world and those around me.


May this day after our day of thanks give reminding me that gratitude for the simple pleasures of life and of memories made are the most significant things to reflect upon.

May I be guided and given the opportunity to share a smile.  Share a kind word and make a difference for another to brighten their day.

May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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On Learning~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 26 Day 329 of 365 11/26/11

The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20

 has wasted 30 years of his life.

~ Muhammad Ali

How true is that?  As we grow older we all learn from our many trips around the sun, don't we?

So why when we go out on black Friday would we spray pepper spray at others just to get the special of the day?  Why?

Why would we do that?  Or why would we trample a store employee and step on and over the very merchandise that we came for just to act like animals let out of a cage?  Why?

Sigh.......

This Black Friday is much safer from home.

So we live and we learn don't we.  Sometimes from our own errors but often in the company of others or from what we read online or in the paper.

But how much we could learn about ourselves if we just took the time each day to write about ourselves.

Take the time to get a journal, a diary a tablet or open up a document on line and just write out your thoughts.

Questions to ask or write about.  Well here is a few

What did I say to myself today that was kind and loving?

What difference did I make in the past 24 hours that changed or had the potential to change another persons life? 

What prayers have I prayed?  What thoughts are important to me right now?

What are my goals for the week, the month, the year?

What am I focusing on lately that is not empowering me but taking away from my ability to grow?

Who do I love?  Who loves me?

What riches do I have that I tend to overlook each day but I would be lost without them?

What can I focus on today that may just improve upon my life more than I can imagine?

Just a few questions there are more and in a few weeks I will share some more.

But take the time to live your life and more importantly take the time to record some of it.

Learn from it and grow from it.

If we are not growing we are indeed dying.  So take the time right now to type out a few thoughts a few dreams and a few goals on how you can grow and not remain in that circle of repetition that can haunt us all.

Smiles sent your way.... Today  and everyday  : )  Enjoy your day everyone : )

  

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On this day in history

1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.


1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.


1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.


1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.


1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.


1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).


1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.


1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.


1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.


1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.


1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).


1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.


1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.


1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.


1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.


1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.


1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.


1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.


1977 – 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.


1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.


1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.


1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.


2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.


2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.


2008 – Terrorists attack Mumbai in India and the city is held in siege for 3 days.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From AllRecipes.com.

Grilled Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for another day of life.

Thanks you for the ability to learn, to seek and to understand not just the world around me but myself.

Help me to be kinder and gentler with myself, and more positive with my words.


May I encourage myself as the year progresses and take time out to learn the power of simple gratitude and kindness to others.

May this day after our day of thanks give reminding me that gratitude for the simple pleasures of life and of memories made are the most significant things to reflect upon.


May I be guided and given the opportunity to share a smile.  Share a kind word and make a difference for another to brighten their day.

May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Daily Information

A very cool time piece for the web

Sunrise  

Sunset

Next Full Moon

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: )

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written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011  

On the Memories ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 25 Day 329 of 365 11/25/11

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. 


The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; 


not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but


 often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

~Primo Levi

Black Friday, as I write this many of been standing in line, in the cold in some places waiting for their chance to get that big bargain.  To spend their cash, or their credit and make someone's Christmas more special.  The madness of it all black friday.  

Not a big shopper at all, thats just me, I do much of my shopping online. It is easier, and I have more warmth at my computer than trudging through the snow or cold.  

Better memories are made, at least thats me.  I do love to watch from a distance the folks on the news crawl and clamor over each other to get the latest bargain.  It makes me smile and laugh that I can understand the chaos of it all from a distance.

Memories of my days as a store manager, assistant manager for the big box department stores of the 70's and 1980's.   I worked for Hills Department Stores and Ames most of my career and the stories of Cabbage Patch Kids, Teddy Ruxpin, talking bears and Tickle me Elmo would have you rolling in laughter.  The madness of it all watching grown adults run down asiles of a store to get to the hot item.  The phone calls each day, 'did you get more'?

Often the answer was no but they called back the next day.

Memories are great we can reflect on them and reject them if they don't make us happy or smile.  They are our memories after all do with them what you wish.

I understand and promote the power of a gratitude journal.  We should all understand that is our life is worth living then it is worth recording the important stuff.  

Our grandchildren and our children will appreciate the record, the written record of what we thought, what we bought, what we cared about and who cared about us.

Take the time to not only make the memories and share the love and joy with another but take time to summarize the memoreis in to a journal.  The memories will be more accurate for one and the other thing it will become a reminder of a holiday that just went way to fast.

What jokes got told that were just so darn funny?

What item on the table did you just want to ask for the recipe?

How did the evening end?   What smiles were shared and how much did you really eat?

Memories are like a soft breeze on the beach that brings in the ocean air and gently touches our skin with comfort.  Memoreis choose them, make them and keep the ones to reflect upon when the moment is called upon again.

Take time to record them in a journal, on a computer, in a blog.  Somewhere take the time to record them. 

What joy they may bring to someone down the road of the future.  What joy they may bring to another.

So here is hoping all the thanksgiving memories you made are warm and filled with joy.  The leftovers securely put away for an afternoon snack.  The dishes done and toweled away in their proper place.

Enjoy the day and as always smiles to you this day  : )

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On this day in history

1343 – A tsunami, caused by the earthquake in the Tyrrhenian Sea, devastates Naples (Italy) and the Maritime Republic of Amalfi, among other places.

1667 – A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.


1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.

1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.

1759 – An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000.


1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

1833 – A massive undersea earthquake, estimated magnitude between 8.7-9.2 rocks Sumatra, producing a massive tsunami all along the Indonesian coast.

1839 – A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (which has never been completely rebuilt). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster.


1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge – At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.

1864 – American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.


1874 – The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.

1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.

1947 – Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

1947 – New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.

1963 – President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.


1984 – 36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

1986 – Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.


1987 – Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that destroys entire villages. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.


1992 – The Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993.n.



1996 – An ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. A powerful windstorm affects Florida and winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.


1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal Sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in Dominican Republic.
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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From AllRecipes.com.

After - Thanksgiving Turkey Soup 

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for another day of life.


Thanks you for the nature that sits upon my door step, may I notice and enjoy it more.

May this day after our day of thanks give reminding me that gratitude for the simple pleasures of life and of memories made are the most significant things to reflect upon.


May I be guided and given the opportunity to share a smile.  Share a kind word and make a difference for another to brighten their day.

May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

Thank you for the gift of life and faith that your grace is enough.

May I appreciate life each moment shared this holiday season.


I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Daily Information

A very cool time piece for the web

Sunrise  

Sunset

Next Full Moon

Days till Spring 

Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011