How to keep good friends; here are three secrets.
17 JanBear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” (Colossians 3:12-14)
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Five Ways to Overcome Heartache
10 JanInteresting comparison today on Janet’s blog involving Blue Jeans.
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Cappuccino or a day when we were very rich
6 JanThis is the post I meant to reblog. I hope you enjoyed my oops too. I was trying to work from my iPad
First time I tried cappuccino in February of 1975. I was 40 years old. We lived in Lido di Ostia and waited for American visas.
Another immigrant who somehow had a lot of money and liked to play chess with me bought cappuccino for both of us.
I was afraid to try it as in the Soviet Union I had terrible allergy each time I drank a cup of coffee. However, my partner insisted that cappuccino is very good and I must try it.
What could I do? I raised a cup, opened my mouth, took a mouthful and …fell in love. Not only this. Somehow cappuccino became for me a symbol of freedom, a symbol of Italy, of this wonderful beautiful country with very warm people.
Years passed and we visited Italy again. We took a two weeks trip from the north to the south. Every day I drank…
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Unique paintings?!
6 JanI enjoyed this delightful story. I hope you enjoy it too.
After publishing the story “ULTIMATUM” I decided to check further how my first digital paintings (made in January and February of 2014) look after processing with the kaleidoscope effect.
I want to stress one more time that before January 2014 I’ve never painted anything and I believed that I had no chance to learn how to paint.
However, I met many good artists in different countries and some of them highly valued my opinions of their art (there are still very polite and patient people).
Tonight I can proudly state that all my paintings are unique. For 80 years of my lives I produced less than 20 paintings. So I think that collectors must pay a lot for each of them.
My discovery of the painting and photo editing program with the kaleidoscope effect allowed me to produce more interesting unique paintings in seconds.
Below are kaleidoscope paintings based on…
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The best New Year’s resolution.
3 JanMonday many of us will head back to work or school armed with our New Year Resolutions. Will they fall by the wayside of good interntions or will they thrive?
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Cookie Party
22 Dec
My Take
DiVoran Lites
It’s so frustrating to have plans for a day and get up late, and then you have other things to do such as feed the cats and cut your hair before you take a shower. I felt I needed to bake a second batch of cookies for the cookie exchange that night because the hostess asked for three dozen. I haven’t baked cookies in a long time and didn’t know if I still could, thus a trial run.
Anyhow, until I drank my coffee that morning and had a good chat with my daughter, I was feeling frustrated. Finally, I gave up my own plans, which majored on writing and went with the flow of the day.
When I got to the party that evening four women were already there. We had good conversation. No one hogged the floor; no one regaled us with a rant or complained about her lot in life. We were simpatico and as Christians, we were one. That always feels so good!
My cookies were a variation of the recipe on the back of the chocolate-chip bag. I always experiment with every recipe I try, so I thought I’d go for a crispy cookie with lots of nuts instead of a chewy one. Having wondered for fifty years why I must always use brown sugar, I decided to Google the question. In the past, I’d buy it, use enough for one recipe, and have the rest of the box on hand for as many years as it took to turn into solid rock. (I know there are ways to overcome that.) I googled it and the answer was that it was brown because of the molasses added to it and that’s what made the cookies more chewy. I didn’t buy brown sugar. For various reasons, which I won’t go into right now, the first batch was light golden, and raised, and the second batch was crisper, flatter, browner, and not so sweet. I liked the second batch best.
An hour and a half into the party two other guests arrived with their cookies. It was then that we heard all about the vagaries of cookie baking when you’re older, there aren’t any kids in the house, and you’ve given up baking cookies. One woman expressed all my anxieties in a funny soliloquy. Few recipes she found used brown sugar and she wasn’t going to make cookies without it. Her first batch, in spite of two ovens and two timers, came out burnt and as hard as hockey pucks. She threw those away. I went home when the party was just getting started. I wanted to get to bed early so I could get up today and write.
And guess what, here I am — writing. Oh, Happy Day.
Here is someone who had no plans for the day.
Ps. 118:24 – This is the day that the Lord has made. I will rejoice and be glad in it.
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How to decorate the perfect Christmas tree.
20 DecOur Christmas tree isn’t decorated yet. I will be thinking of Janet’s words when we do decorate it.
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Three not-so-secret ways to overcome loneliness.
13 DecDo you find yourself feeling lonley during holidays, especially Christmas?
Have you experienced loneliness lately?
What brings about your loneliness?
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Old Things R New 