I love Christmas music.
That's what makes me feel
the spirit of the season.
Here's a new version
of a less common carol
that I really like....
I love Christmas music.
That's what makes me feel
the spirit of the season.
Here's a new version
of a less common carol
that I really like....
Posted at 01:43 PM in favorite things, life savors, music, simple pleasures | Permalink | Comments (0)
Contact me
and I'll send you a
free copy of the Book of Mormon.
The language of your choice.
Posted at 12:53 PM in Book of Mormon, favorite things, Free Book, good reads, life savors, Mormons, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Permalink | Comments (0)
As a woman of a certain age,
I've gotten really good at
reading body language.
You know what I mean--
that age-old way of speaking
with gestures and expressions
that doesn't need any words.
Just look at the expressions
on these faces....
You can tell at first glance
each person's emotions,
just by reading their faces.
But in this new virtual world
of blogs and emails and text messages,
how are we to know
what people are really thinking and feeling
when we can't see their eyes
and read their body language?
Today I'm blogging
over at "Vision and Verb",
and I'm asking this question:
how is everybody getting along
now that nobody's speaking
body language anymore?!
I hope you'll follow me over
and let's talk about it.
How do you communicate
when all you have is words?
_____________________________
"Vision and Verb" is one of
my favorite blogs.
It's a collaboration of
several multi-talented women
from all over the globe
who share their life experiences
through their photography
and their written words.
I'm so excited to be
a guest blogger there today!
Won't you join me?
Just click here
to read my post,
"Reading Between the Lines."
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John Barclay
Do you have some
favorite photos
you'd like to share?
Maybe one of your own...
or one from your
favorite photographer?
Leave a link in the comments!
Posted at 09:02 AM in blog spotlights, create, favorite things | Permalink | Comments (8)
Conference is audio broadcast
in 68 languages
from Armenian to Vietnamese
and everything in between.
Would you like to join me?
Click here to watch or listen!
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Parkour is the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one's path by adapting one's movements to the environment. It is a non-competitive, physical discipline of French origin in which participants run along a route, attempting to negotiate obstacles in the most efficient way possible, as if moving in an emergency situation.
Skills such as jumping and climbing, or the more specific parkour moves are employed. The object of parkour is to get from one place to another using only the human body and the objects in the environment. The obstacles can be anything in one's environment, but parkour is often seen practiced in urban areas because of the many suitable public structures available such as buildings and rails.
The term freerunning is sometimes used interchangeably with parkour. While superficially similar, freerunning places more emphasis on the aesthetics of movement and finding creative ways to overcome obstacles than on efficiency and simplicity.
"A" and his friends
love to practice their
free running skills.
They're getting strong by
doing handstands
every day during their lunch hour.
They like to go to Discovery Park
which has lots of wooden obstacles
they can run and jump over.
They also go to a gym
that has pads
where they can practice
without getting hurt.
(That makes their mothers happy!)
And they each have their
own signature trick.
"A's" is a side flip.
We decided to try to get some
action shots of his moves.
Pretty cool, don't you think?!
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There's a story behind everything.
I always wonder
about the story behind photos--
especially old family photos.
Last week,
I showed you this photo.
But I didn't tell you the story.
These two lovely ladies
are my great-aunt,
Ethel Naomi Heninger,
and my grandmother,
Hazel
Heninger.
I think this photo
is so pretty
of the two of them.
But Ethel didn't think so.
Whenever she saw
this photograph,
she would turn it face down,
then she would sniff
and say, "Noses."
Do you have
old family photographs
with a story
just waiting to be told?
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On her blog yesterday,
my cute cousin posted
her favorite things in threes--
and she invited her readers
to do the same.
Her favorites inspired me....
and so I'm doing it!
These are the three 3's
that lift me up,
encourage me,
and motivate me
to keep going.
Songs
Dream Big by Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band
Viva la Vida by Coldplay (sung by these kids)
Places
Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah
photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/vxla/ / CC BY 2.0
Posted at 12:37 AM in favorite things, good reads, gratitude, life savors, looking for good, Mormons, nature, optimism, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | Permalink | Comments (8)