I ❤ YOU (Animated)

Animated message, for all my beloved friends!

Have a blessed night! Love & light! ❤

Friendship Poem ❤

A ruddy drop of manly blood
The surging sea outweighs;
The world uncertain comes and goes,
The lover rooted stays.
I fancied he was fled,
And, after many a year,
Glowed unexhausted kindliness
Like daily sunrise there.
My careful heart was free again-
O friend, my bosom said,
THrough thee alone the sky is arched,
Through thee the rose is red,
All things through thee takes nobler form
And look beyond the earth,
The mill-round of our fate appears
A sun-path in thy worth.
Me too thy nobleness has taught
To master my despair;
The fountains of my hidden life
Are through thy friendship fair.

✰ More Gratitudes ✰

Good morning my dear friends!

Another great day, yet again; going to make the best of it! 

Lots of things to do today, but before I start with my routine, 

I am first going to give my daily gratitude to;

My lovely family

My wonderful Facebook family

Our beautiful home

This coming season

Our wishful thinking

Our positive attitudes

The progress @ work

Mother Nature

I am off for this morning, wishing you all a great day! 

Love and light, Hugs & kisses ♡

Friendship Poem

Standing by,

All the way.

Here to help you through your day.

Holding you up,

When you are weak,

Helping you find what it is you seek.

Catching your tears,

When you cry.

Pulling you through when the tide is high.

Just being there,

Through thick and thin,

All just to say, you are my friend.

By: Brittani Kokko

Poem: Today I Married My Best Friend

Today I married my best friend,
Our bond complete, it hath no end,
We share one soul, we share one heart,
A perfect time - a perfect start.

With these rings we share together,
Love so close to last forever,
This special day - two special hearts,
Let nothing keep this love apart.


by Rachel Elizabeth Cooper (b.1977)

The Happiness I Feel at Your Achievements

The happiness I feel at your achievements

Reflects the happiness you feel at mine.
Friends expand the pleasures of such moments,
As mine in yours, and yours in mine, combine.
The same when we look forward to our futures:
So much more unfolds when there are two!
Populating your proposed adventures
Gives me a joy that mine must give to you.
We've been through much, and will be through much more,
But traveling together is more fun.
Whatever life and love may have in store,
Two is always preferable to one.
Your graduation thus becomes my pleasure:
Your happiness is mine, a double treasure.

~ Nicholas Gordon

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Poem: The Color of Friendship

Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel.  All claimed that they were the best.  The most important.  The most useful.  The favorite.

Green said:
"Clearly I am the most important.  I am the sign of life and of hope.  I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves.  Without me, all animals would die.  Look over the countryside and you will see that I am in the majority."

Blue interrupted:
"You only think about the earth, but consider the sky and the sea.  It is the water that is the basis of life and drawn up by the clouds from the deep sea.  The sky gives space and peace and serenity.  Without my peace, you would all be nothing."

Yellow chuckled:
"You are all so serious.  I bring laughter, gaiety and warmth into the world.  The sun is yellow, the moon is yellow, the stars are yellow.  Every time you look at a sunflower, the whole world starts to smile.  Without me there would be no fun."

Orange started next to blow her trumpet:
"I am the color of health and strength.  I may be scarce, but I am precious, for I serve the needs of human life.  I carry the most important vitamins.  Think of carrots, pumpkins, oranges, mangoes and papayas.  I don't hang around all the time, but when I fill the sky at sunrise or sunset, my beauty is so striking that no one gives another thought to any of you."

Red could stand it no longer.  He shouted out:
"I am the ruler of all of you.  I am blood - life's blood!  I am the color of danger and of bravery.  I am willing to fight for a cause.  I bring fire into the blood.  Without me, the earth would be as empty as the moon.  I am the color of passion and of love, the red rose, the poinsettia and the poppy."

Purple rose up to his full height.  He was very tall and spoke with great pomp:
"I am the color of royalty and power.  Kings, chiefs and bishops have always chosen me, for I am the sign of authority and wisdom.  People do not question me!  They listen and obey."

Finally Indigo spoke, much more quietly than all the others, but with just as much determination:
"Think of me.  I am the color of silence.  You hardly notice me, but without me you all become superficial.  I represent thought and reflection, twilight and deep water.  You need me for balance and contrast, for prayer and inner peace."

And so the colors went on boasting, each convinced of his or her own superiority.  Their quarreling became louder and louder.  Suddenly there was a startling flash of bright lightening.  Thunder rolled and boomed.  Rain started to pour down relentlessly.  The colors crouched down in fear, drawing close to one another for comfort.

In the midst of the clamor, rain began to speak:
"You foolish colors, fighting amongst yourselves, each trying to dominate the rest.  Don't you know that you were each made for a special purpose, uinque and different?  Join hands with one another and come to me."

Doing as they were told, the colors united and joined hands.

The rain continued:
"From now on, when it rains, each of you will stretch across the sky in a great bow of color as a reminder that you can all live in peace.  The Rainbow is a sign of hope for tomorrow."

And so, whenever a good rain washes the world, and a Rainbow appears in the sky, let us remember to appreciate one another.

--Author Unknown--