The Universe Is Smiling: "Play"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Don't hesitate to play :)

"Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
 - Friedrich Nietzsche
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it."
- Charlie Chaplin

The Universe Is Smiling: "Friends"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Cherish your friends - with a smile :)

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardener who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Summer"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
How are YOU spending your summer?

 

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen
"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
- Ada Louise Huxtable 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Inner Child"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
I was looking through a pile of papers and found this drawing which I had done years ago and had long forgotten about. It seemed to wave at me saying, "Hey, I am your inner child". I cracked up laughing and I thought you might enjoy it too.

"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."
 - Heraclitus
"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Playfulness"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Play and be joyful :)

"It is a requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
- Thomas Aquinas
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Inner Child"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Awake the inner child!
"The most important muse of all is our inner child."
- Stephen Nachmanovich
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
- C.S. Lewis
"Whoever wants to understand much must play much."
- Gottfried Benn  

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: Fly a Kite!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

- Heraclitus

"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind."

- Hamilton Wright Mable    

The Universe Is Smiling: Keep it light and have fun!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."

- Earl Nightingale  

The Universe Is Smiling: I have never been a serious person ....

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "I have never been a serious person... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy."

- Bhagvan Shree Rajneesh

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

- Leo Buscaglia    

The Universe Is Smiling: Leave yourself behind

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "What do you have to do?

Pack your bags,

Go to the station without them,

Catch the train,

And leave yourself behind."

- from 'Open Secret' by Wei Wu Wei