The Universe Is Smiling: "Radiance"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Let your good energy shine through and make someone smile :)

"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."
 - Dag Hammarskjold
"Love whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
 "The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look."
- Fra Giovany Giocondo

The Casual Observer: "Pumpkin LIVE"

The annual Night of the 100 PUMPKINs at The Bakery: Creativity, fun, and some ghoulish scare guaranteed :)

Pumpkins are getting ready for their big night out:

 

some are a bit shy and hiding

others seem exuberant

cute!

The Zen of mice life: Is it cheese or not?

New Paltz businesses in a web map

 Ready for action:

 

 The night has come. Pumpkins are ready to be on fire. The drums are filling the air, and the long line of visitors is passing by with free pumpkin bred and hot apple cider in hand. Get into the groove and dance with the music :)

 

Clockwork of Time

Let's get out of the rut of habit and create a future of love, tolerance and creative play! Are you on board? Smiles to YOU :)

The Universe Is Smiling: "The Elements on a Summit"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: The elements are discussing how to bring harmony to the world."

"All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation."

 - Henry Reed

"All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environments treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body - like radiation, cancer, and all."

- Ornette Coleman

The Universe Is Smiling: Enthusiasm

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A:  Keep your enthusiasm!

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine through the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas."

- Henry Ford

The Universe Is Smiling: Our Beloved Nature

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

The Universe Is Smiling: If you want to make your dreams come true, ...

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Powers

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow   

The Universe is Smiling: Fearlessness

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is fearlessness?

A: "To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human mind. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."  
- Bernard Edmonds