About Slowing Down a Little

 Christmas is around the corner and I am sitting here by the window, looking outside, waiting for fragile snowflakes to start falling down. My thoughts take me back to my childhood, when I was a little girl, and the period before Christmas seemed to be so beautiful. We would bake our famous cookies, in the house you could smell a heavenly fragrance of little miracles on a baking pan. My mom would tell me magic stories and I would listen attentively with my eyes and mouth wide open :), we would watch people trying to walk in drifts of snow, with a special net-like bags with carps in it...a special type of fish people eat in the Czech Republic on Christmas. We would make paper snowflakes and paper chains for our tree...and listen to our little junkie radio. Times were so different back there. What happen, how come I grew up so fast?

Now I am the mom, trying to keep the atmosphere I used to have, the warmth of home, the anticipation=Advent...the tranquility of evenings. Let's stop for a while, instead of chasing the best deals on Best Buy's sale...and let's praise the Lord, for giving us this miracle, the miracle of Love in Christmas. Let's wait together for the Saviour.

The Power of Love

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

Roads

Today's reflections...

There are many roads in our lives; some of them are straight, some of them curved, bumpy or smooth, and some of them we have to build and maintain ourselves. No matter what that road is like, the most important thing is, where it leads to...All I know is, that the right one will not be the easiest one.
What I pray for is that I am going to find enough strength and determination to walk that right road on my own. All I need is love. The LOVE that gives LIGHT and illuminates that road showing us the right direction. Without it, there is no path to walk, no destination to reach...

William Booth

I am understanding you better...

“While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight, I'll fight to the very end!"

W.B.

Must Let Go

9/27/2006

There are couple of songs, that remind me of what I have been through...that sound like they are about me, like someone was peeking through my heart and found my deepest secrets...this is one of them...comes from the movie "Anna and the King" with Jodie Foster, I love that movie since I discovered it in 2005, although it has been done in 1999. The story is amazing itself, an 18th century teacher in Siam. How great and inventive methods she had, how smart and brilliant she was. The book is worth reading as well. Highly recommending! I wish people realized one thing: If they don't let their dreams come true, they will never know what they missed. If they miss love in their lives how sad their lives can be...for LOVE CONQUERS EVERYTHING...

Cannot touch, cannot hold

Cannot be together

Cannot love, cannot kiss

Cannot have each other

Must be strong

And we must let go

Cannot say what our hearts must know



[chorus]

How can I not love you

What do I tell my heart

When do I not want you here In my arms

How does one waltz away from all of the memories

How do I not miss you when you are gone



Cannot dream

Cannot share sweet and tender moments

Cannot feel how we feel

Must pretend it's over

Must be brave

And we must go on

Must not say what we've known all along



[chorus]

How can I not love you

What do I tell my heart

When do I not want you here In my arms

How does one waltz away from all of the memories

How do I not miss you when you are gone



Must be brave

And we must be strong

Cannot say what we've known all along



[chorus]

How can I not love you

What do I tell my heart

When do I not want you here In my arms

How does one waltz away from all of the memories

How do I not miss you when you are gone

Daffodils

Here is my most favorite poem....doesn't it sound like a symphony? Thanks Mr. Willam :) 

"Daffodils" (1804) 


I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company: I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

One year

Today was one year since I started working as a teacher in this district...wow...time flies...

3 years

It's been 3 years today, since I have entered this wonderful country...
God Bless America!

Hummingbirds

08/22/06

My dearest friend,

I am here again, and I'd like to share this thought with you...I bought a hummingbird feeder. Filled it up with that solution for the hummingbirds, and look...they came in a heart beat...two of them. First I though there was a hornet hovering around my head and in a panic I ran home, but to my surprise there were two humming birds she and he. She is smaller, and I could say her movements are more delicate - she is just a lady, he is more colorful, with a red spot around his neck, that looks like a holographic image, cause it changes under the angle, I couple I thought...so sweet...they nested in my tree, nearby the house, they fly around every day, seems like they chase each other...first I thought they were fighting, but actually it looks like a love dance...they take turns getting their drinks...I have read they have to eat/drink at least 50% of their body weight daily to survive, amazing...their chirping lightens up my day, you hear that little "squeak, squeak" around your ear, and immediately I stop moving and just observe in an awe...Soon the third one appeared, actually, 5 months later, and I wonder if this is an offspring...So now I have three little, fragile birdies, that come back daily, and I am filling up my hummingbird feeder...what an amazing creature...God created them to please my soul...cause whenever I see them I feel free...I feel like flying myself with them in that crazy little dance, they do every time they hover around the feeder...I am so close sometimes, I could touch them, they are so tiny, their beaks are so thin, like a needle, their eyes though are quite big looking...their slim body is an evidence of Creator's excellence, the way they hover around in one place without stopping moving their wings just leaves me speechless...I love hummingbirds...and I am always thinking of you when I look at them...