Day Twenty-Eight: Two Lives

"I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that."
-Marlo Morgan

Day Twenty-Seven: Truth

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
-Mark Twain

Day Twenty-Six: Great Thoughts

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
-Benjamin Disraeli

Day Twenty-Five: Explore. Dream. Discover.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

Day Twenty-Four: I Contain Multitudes

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
-Walt Whitman

Day Twenty-Three: Let Go of Fear

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the World.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just some of us; it is everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

-Nelson Mandela

True North

Looking for something fun to do? Look no further!

Please join the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program Children’s Dance Theatre for True North – an epic journey across the ice-bound Arctic territories of Canada. Far from civilization, in the middle of the vast ice fields of the North, a young child with no memory of her past mysteriously appears. A Pacific Northwest village takes her in and raises her as one of their own. Years later, the child receives a powerful vision that sends her on a quest in search of the answer to the riddle of her true identity. She makes her way northward across land and sea, through the realms of ancient spirits and wild animals, to True North... the home of the elusive Northern Lights.

Capitol Theatre

50 W. 200 South | Salt Lake City, Utah

Friday, April 23, 2010 | 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 24, 2010 | 2:00 p.m.

Tickets and information are available online at www.arttix.org,

at all ArtTix Ticket Office locations,

or by calling 355-ARTS.

Ticket Prices:

$15.00 | $18.00 | $24.00

50% off for children 12 and under

Day Twenty-Two: Life

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

Day Twenty-One: Dream

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau

how I'm feeling today...

*don't worry- nothing earth shattering is going on..... I blame the hormones.

Day Twenty: Be Yourself

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
-Dr. Seuss

Day Nineteen: It Takes Time

"If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls."
-Nachmanovitch

Day Eighteen: Dance

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
-Walt Whitman


"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
-Friedrich Nietzsche


"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. "
-Martha Graham



“If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it.”
-Isadora Duncan

Day Seventeen: The Ultimate Career

"The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
-C.S. Lewis

more valentine fun

p.s. Third grade boys + Valentine's Day = hilarity

I was in charge of Valentine Bingo for Kensie's party, and the boys cringed when I called out "Love Me", rolled their eyes at "Hi, Doll", and made puking noises when I announced "Kiss, Kiss".

The girls, on the other hand, were totally into it Ü

Day Sixteen: Succeeding

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
-Bessie Anderson Stanley

Day Fifteen: Miracles

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-Albert Einstein

Day Fourteen: Love

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-William Shakespeare

Day Thirteen: Change

"All changes...have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves."
-Anataole France

Day Twelve: Discovery

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
-Marcel Proust

Day Eleven: Living

Just living is not enough...one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
-Hans Christian Anderson

Day Ten: Be Yourself

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Nine: Women

"The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity."
-Margaret Nadauld

Day Eight: Look Ahead

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind."
-C.S. Lewis

Day Seven: Smile

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-Dr. Seuss

Heart Day

We've been getting into the spirit around here....

So far we've had the usual fun with candy canes,







made some yummy treats {recipe here and here}



and made an Oracle of Love {Family Fun's version of the magic 8 ball}. Kensie LOVES this thing and asks it all sorts of questions. It's super easy to make, too.

Just get an empty jar {baby food jars work well. I had a marinated artichoke jar & used that}. Flatten a 1 inch Styrofoam ball with your thumb to create a cube with 6 sides.

Cut 6 hearts out of craft foam and write answers on each {I did yes, no, you bet, never, maybe, and ask again}. Use a glue gun to attach hearts to the cube, place in the jar and fill with water to the top. Make sure the lid is on tight! Now you can decorate the jar.

They recommended using modeling clay to cover the jar, which I didn't have. I just covered it in paper and craft foam, leaving the bottom exposed, and mod podged the whole thing.
So fun!


Next up, making valentines.....

Day Six: Life

fountains abbey- one of my favorite places on earth

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
-Maya Angelou

Day Five: Let Go

let it go- the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise- let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go- the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers- you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go- the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things- let all go
dear
so comes love

-e.e. cummings

Day Four: Memories

"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
My Antonia- Cather

Day Three: Books

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
-Cicero

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
-Oscar Wilde

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
-Gustave Flaubert

Day Two: Live

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
-Mark Twain

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A Month Of Quotes

I love quotes. I love reading the inspiring words of others. I have an entire journal dedicated to quotes, thoughts and poems that I love.

Each day this month I will be posting one {or two...or more....} of my favorites- just because I love them so {and also in case something should ever happen to my beloved journal, which incidentally is covered in astroturf. It's awesome.}.

*all photos from Flickr

Day One

Friendship



"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
-James Boswell



"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."
-Anais Nin