Invest your attention

You are always highly attentive to something. Though the object of your attention may change quickly and often, at any given moment your attention is focused on one particular thing or another.

You have the ability for long and consistent focus if you so choose, and you also have the ability to go with the flow of the moment. Both abilities can be extremely valuable in their own ways.

The important thing is that the object of your attention is yours to decide. It cannot be forced upon you by anything other than your own choice.

Look back at the various ways you've spent your attention, and consider what those choices have brought you. Use your experience as a guide when you select where to invest your attention in each moment.

The possibilities available to you depend upon which direction you look. Think of the kinds of places where you've found real and lasting value in the past, and you'll know where to look.

There is enormous power in your attention, and you can decide in each moment precisely where that power is directed. Choose always to aim the power of your attention so that it lifts you and your world higher and higher.

Take Care and have a great day from Kimmie

An Angel Poem

When I have no one to turn to
And I am feeling kind of low,
When there is no one to talk to
And nowhere I want to go,
I search deep within myself
It is the love inside my heart
That lets me know my Angels are there
Even though we are miles apart.

A smile then appears upon my face
And the sun begins to shine.
I hear a voice, so soft and sweet
Saying, 'Everything will be just fine'
It may seem that I am alone
But I am never by myself at all.
Whenever I need my Angels near
All I have to do is call.

An Angel's love is always true
On that you can depend.
They will always stand behind you
And will always be your friend.
Through darkest hours and brightest days
Our Angel's see us through
They smile when we are happy, and will cry when we are blue..

Thanks for being my Angel my friend
I will be there for you until the end.

The Return of Brigit O’Hara (Ghost Tale)
By:

Long ago in a small village in Ireland, there lived a handsome farmer by the name of Sian (pronounced Sean) O’Hara. Sian was a wealthy farmer who was quite popular with the townspeople and the young girls but he was so particular as to whom he courted that he still hadn’t found a woman suitable enough to be his wife. Years passed and no one thought he would ever marry.

All that changed however when he set eyes on Brigit Flaherty. Brigit had come to Sligo from Galway to visit her aunt and uncle and Sian had been in the village buying some feed and grain when he saw Brigit walking down the street. When he saw her his heart skipped a beat. Brigit was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen!!! She had a beautifully pale, milk-white face, long red hair that glistened in the sun. Her lips were soft, red and full like rose petals and she had the most beautiful green eyes he had ever seen. They were emerald green and almost seemed to glow with an inner light.

After he had found out her name from the clerk in the store, he decided to pay the Flaherty’s a call. They welcomed him warmly and after he had settled down at their table for tea. He heard Brigit’s voice for the first time. Her voice was sweet and melodious and he fell deeply in love with her at first sight. Brigit, on the other hand wasn’t too sure about him, however. Yes he was handsome, but handsome is as handsome does she had always heard and so she asked him if he would like to come again and pay her a call again. Of course he said, "Yes," and they met for many weeks after that. Brigit eventually found out that his disposition was as wonderful as his looks and eventually, just as the summer came to an end, Sian asked Brigit to be his wife. She agreed and they were married in the village church with the whole town celebrating with music and singing.

Sian and Brigit lived together for many happy years. She cared for him like a loving wife was supposed to, and he gave her all the love and tenderness that he could. There were many people in the village who saw their devotion as a sign from God that they were destined to be together. The were often seen in the village walking hand in hand, smiling at each other. At home, Sian would sit in his chair by the fire and read love poems to Brigit and Brigit would sing old folk songs a cappella. Many times they would simply sit together and do nothing—just being together was enough for them.

And so it continued for several years until one day, while returning home from town, Sian heard a crying wail of the banshee. it wailed so mournfully and he knew that the sound came from his farm. Hurrying the horse and wagon as quickly as he could, he got home and threw open the door. Poor Brigit lay on the floor by the fireplace, staring up into the air with dead eyes. The banshee shrieked once more and then there was complete silence in the little stone cottage until Sian screamed.

They buried Brigit in the graveyard and Sian was beside himself with grief. He mourned like a mad man. He was often seen in the graveyard, lying on the grave and crying bitterly. After several months Sian finally settled down into his routine.

It was a year and a day of the date of Brigit’s death and Sian was sitting by his fireplace reading his Bible, when the front door suddenly burst open with a wild gushing wind and standing in the door was a figure dressed in a burial shroud. It silently glided in, and the door closed silently behind the advancing figure. The figure walked across the room and sat down across from him. He knew at once to his horror, that it was Brigit come back from the grave. He stared in horror as the shroud slowly fell away from her head. What he saw shocked him. What sat before him was a rotted corpse. The flesh had been completely eaten away. Her beautiful red lips had been replaced with the grinning teeth of a skull. Her lovely jade green eyes were completely gone and only two black holes with an eerie green fire-like glow stared out of her skull. Her red hair had turned a dusky brownish tint and Sian was filled with loathing.

Finally Sian spoke to the visitor.

"Brigit...is that you ?"

The figure nodded it’s head.

"Brigit...what has happened to your beautiful red hair?’

The thing looked up at him and said,

"Gone and faded away."

"Brigit.....what’s happened to your beautiful green eyes?"

"Gone and faded away."

"Brigit, what happened to your beautiful red lips I used to love to kiss?"

"Gone and faded away."

Finally, Sian got up the courage to ask the question he needed answered.

"Brigit.....why have you come back?’

The figure turned it’s head in his direction and said...

"I’ve come for YOU!!!!!"

(When telling this story, Brigit’s voice should be a whisper when answering his questions. Even the last line should be whispered to add to the horrifying effect.)

// KIM

Take Care

My daughter Sanna 

The days to come
Live fully today, while also looking beyond it. For where you finish today is your starting point for tomorrow.

With effort and commitment, there is much you can bring to life this very moment. With vision and a solid sense of purpose, there is even more value that you can bring about in the days to come.

Treasure and enjoy today, while paving the way toward a bright tomorrow. Give your energy both to being and to becoming.

Right now, there is much beauty and richness to be found. Extend and expand that beauty into the moments that are to follow.

Accept, appreciate and make the most of the reality that is. As you do so, you are creating an even greater reality that will soon be.

On this day, you are setting a direction for the days to come. By giving your best to life today, you're making that direction a positive and fulfilling one.

Kimberly

Have a nice weekend

Life grows brighter when you come to understand. Live with a love and thankfulness for life, and your understanding of it will become more valuable.
Come to understand that the other people in your world have perspectives, purposes and priorities that are different than yours. It will save you from a lot of needless frustration and anger.
Come to understand that loss is a part of life. And you always have every reason and ability to heal.
Come to understand that giving and receiving are always inseparable. The level of abundance you experience is equal to the value and goodness flowing out from you.
Come to understand that sometimes the most powerful response is patience. There are many battles you do not really need to fight.
Come to understand that whatever may have been or wherever you may find yourself, you always have a choice. Choose to live each moment with positive purpose, and you will truly come to understand

I all wish you a very happy weekend. I have been away a while and will be for a part of a time longer.
take care of each other // Kim

Do you need exercising?

Pregnancy Questions -- Ask the Guru
1. Q: Should I have a baby after 35?
A: No, 35 children is enough.
2. Q: I'm two months pregnant now. When will my baby move?
A: With any luck, right after he finishes college.
3. Q: How will I know if my vomiting is morning sickness or the flu?
A: If it's the flu, you'll get better.
4. Q: What is the most common pregnancy craving?
A: For men to be the ones who get pregnant.
5. Q: What is the most reliable method to determine a baby's sex?
A: Childbirth.
6. Q: The more pregnant I get, the more often strangers smile at me. Why?
A: Cause you're fatter than they are.
7. Q: My wife is five months pregnant and so moody that sometimes she's borderline
irrational
A: So what’s your question?
8. Q: What's the difference between a nine-month pregnant woman and a model?
A: Nothing (if the pregnant woman's husband knows what's good for him).
9. Q: How long is the average woman in labor?
A: Whatever she says divided by two.
10. Q: My childbirth instructor says it's not pain I'll feel during labor, but pressure.
Is she right?
A: Yes, in the same way that a tornado might be called an air current

What's done is done. The time and energy you spend complaining about it will get you nothing but a lot of frustration and negativity.
What's happened has happened. Instead of looking back, fretting and arguing about why or how or who is at fault, look forward and consider all the positive possibilities that are available to you.
If you've been wronged, don't seek revenge. Seek success, seek achievement, seek fulfillment, seek to take what has happened and turn it into a positive force in your life.
Spend your time and energy not in looking back, but in looking ahead. For that is where you can make a difference.
Learn from what has happened, allow it to inspire and motivate you in a positive way, and then choose to move forward. See the value in the way things are at this moment, and see how you can make full use of that value.
Let go of your attachment to what has already happened. And make room in your life to create the very best that can be.

This is something we all should think about, we live in a stressed world and often take each other for granted, don't forget to be a friend, never a stranger. Don't get to bed angry, always try to if you are maybe fighting with your wife, son or daughter,friend let it out with each other and get it together.
You never know if there is a tomorrow.

Take care of each other and take each day to your heart that you have with those who you love.

I just love taking pictures.

This is photos of My daughter just 8 months old and some today. She is 16 today and a real lady.

My cat's names are Layla and Mango.

I hope you enjoy some photos here.

Take Care

Kim

Well my first blogg here, and what shall I write about. I honestly don't know, something that always is in our minds today is how the world has come to be, children shooting other children, all the violence in the world that effect us ALL.

Isn’t it time for us adults to set a stop for all this, a reaction in form of a mass public from the whole world. Some kind of demonstration anything to make the violence stop. We can't stop it all, I am aware of that, but maybe our voices could help a little.

The children of today will take over someday when we aren't here anymore, and how are they going to do that with all this going on in the world. Schools, no discipline anymore, children is dominating there parents and not the other way around, it is all so wrong. And talk about all the violence on TV.
I saw a movie for a while ago called A Thousand Corpses. What was that about? How can it be fun to watch some maniac murder people? where ever he goes? and is it strange that this effect our youth of today?
If we adults allow this more it will be a catastrophic soon. We must put a stop to it. Usa is a country that speaks for NO VIOLENCE , yet there is very much violence in the country, and yet it can be a big talk if a mother throw a big party for her 16 year old son with a stripper! How can people react so seriously about that with everything else going on, Oprah having a show about this and invite the parents.
How about reacting to the whole world today, why we allow our children to take over in our homes. Why is many children angry today and don't have patients to listen to there parents? Well I can guess one of the reasons. We live in a stressed community, and don't have time for our children anymore; we think more of our work and appearances than anything else, money money money.
We are forested to work, because everything is so expensive and will be more expensive. How shall all this end if we let this go on.
In Sweden Criminals go to the country to rob banks and other crimes, because it's known that the prisons treat prisoners good in Sweden. That is so sick. If the come from another country doing a crime they should be deported to their own country and NOT do their time in Sweden?! But so does it work in Sweden, they do their time in Sweden then they deport them from the country.
Social Services that should see to that children have it safe at home, send children that doesn’t have committed any crimes to institutions for mental sick prisoners, and to homes that is not good for them. One girl 18 years old had "run away" over 50 times since she was 13, and she was in the system, they Social services sent here to different places all the time and today she is a real mess. They say Social Services shall help those with problems, in my eyes they doesn't help they make things worse. People that work in these places are often not fit for working with children or families with problems.
You find very few folks in an office building like Social Services that have been through a lot them selves. I should be more of them. I know a girl that wanted to work with children and families with problems, she didn't come in, and she had to start a private place of her own. Then the others sit tight with their education and books and think they have so much knowledge.
BS I say. I don't know how the Child/Social Services works in the states but in Sweden it's a catastrophic in almost every city.

Violence feeds Violence that is not the answer. How about good old 1950th respect in the schools again, I've heard of a project in England that went well. How about doing that in the whole world. America should do what they tell everybody else to do! Take care of each other, never go to bed angry, if you have any issues with your spouse or children, take care of it. You don't know if there is a tomorrow. Movies, how about making movies GOOD movies with messages, not about violence, murder and stuff. CSI, a very good series, BUT, don't the learn out to other criminals how to do crime? If you think about it they do. I think it's time for a big change. And I will be the first to shout. CHANGE TO THE WORLD, NO MORE VIOLENCE. Kimberly Nicole