Seeing Rightly

 

I think I’m feeling the rosy flush of Valentine’s Day drawing near…

Lots of hearts in my pages lately.  The Queen of Hearts—always a favorite with me.  I love this vintage queen’s regalness.  She needed lots of gilding.  Demanded it {sweetly}, actually!

And the words of a “Little Prince”—another favorite of mine—that has always influenced the way I see things…

“It is only with the HEART that one can see rightly”, his author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery so wisely said.  I love those words.  I wrote them here in my journal to help me remember them just a little more often…

And just a page of being.  I wrote around this lovely china doll as I sat surrounded by my family.  We were just all doing our own things—reading, stitching, drawing…but we were all together.  And that just made my heart feel right.

Wishing you beautiful heart-filled days…

Julie

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Little Things

Just a few little things today--random thoughts on random pages to share…

Ah, letter writing.  It’s a rather vanishing form of communication, isn’t it?  So sad to me…and yet I’m quick to just dash off an email letter, myself. 

Maybe this year I’ll put pen in hand more often with a stack of beautiful paper in front of me and write to those I love…that would  be a very good thing.

 

Listening to that quiet voice inside of you.  Seems like just a little thing, but it’s one of the most important things we can do…you rarely go wrong when you listen to your heart.

And last but not least, a few wishes hidden away for the New Year.  Some hopes and wishes I’ll keep just for me.  My beautiful Victorian friend here is very good at keeping secrets…

Wishing you lovely days ahead full of all the most beautiful “little things” life has to offer--funny how they often become the big things if we let them….

See you soon with something new.

Julie

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Being Happy

 

I’m chuckling a little bit to myself as I post these pages today--I’m realizing they might seem a bit contradictory…you’ll see.

“We are what we repeatedly do”, said Aristotle.  True words.  They can apply to anything and everything we do.  I chose to pair them with being a queen.  We all need to feel like a queen sometimes, don’t we?

Well, there’s that.

Then we go to the opposite side of things:

Not the honesty part—that applies to both—it’s the simplicity part that’s making me chuckle this morning.

Being happy with the sweet and simple things in life vs. wanting to be the Queen.

But sometimes you just SIMPLY have to be the Queen.

And be happy with it.

See you soon with something new…

Julie

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