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☆Too Much Turkey 4 Tinker☆

Tinker had eaten a little bit too much turkey on thanksgiving.
She is so fat she can’t fit into her winter clothes from last year.
I had to get her a new outfit yesterday at the Ross.

I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I adopted her from the animal shelter. I remember when I first set eyes on her she was so tiny/skinny and frightened.

The pound attendant said they had found her running wild in the city of Yuma. She was living on the streets for thanksgiving last year. It breaks my heart to think of it.
Alone, starving, and certainly terrified!

I look at her now and she’s so contented. Always happy and just a precious addition to our family. I’m so thankful to have spent this Thanksgiving with her. She ate until she was full, well, maybe over full, but don’t we all overeat on the Holidays. Then she climbed into her new fluffy winter bed and, well, here are the pictures, see for yourself if you think maybe she ate too much.

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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]

RETURN TO LOVE

INTERESTS, Stories

The book, “Return to Love,” by Marianne Williamson, has profoundly influenced my life. It’s changed my entire perspective on religion vs.spirituality.
If anyone is struggling with religion this book will help improve their tolerance and love, for not only themselves, which is first foremost of importance, but their view of the entire world.
The importance for taking responsibility to enhance our own spiritually is the key to living a fulfilling life. We can retire from blaming religion for our lack of unwillingness to learn how we can, “return to love.”
Dawna Bowles

Here are a few excerpts from the book,

1.) Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of Heaven. Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.

2.) “…a miracle is a reasonable thing to ask for.”

3.) “Do what you love.
Do what makes your heart sing.
And NEVER do it for the money,
Go to work to spread joy.”

5.) “When infants aren’t held, they can become sick, even die. It’s universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”

Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”

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[by Dawna Bowles (C)2014]

The only time you truly loose…

INTERESTS, PHOTOGRAPHY

Is when you give up.
There are moments, sometimes hours, and at times, days that I feel like I can’t, or maybe that I don’t want to continue to do the things I love, and I feel like giving up.

I know this mindset is nothing but a self-defeating attitude that is a result of looking back at my life, and wishing that I would have done things differently.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again, for a self confirmation in order to rid myself of pride and futile thoughts.
“I give up all hope of having a better past.” There.
“Now, I must do the thing I think I cannot do.” –Eleanor Roosevelt-

The only one thing that I know to be effective at times like these, is to make a gratitude list for everything I have, and forget about everything I want.

My serenity is directly proportional to my ability to, “Accept the things I cannot change, and the courage to change the things I can.” –Bill W.-

I won’t give up, I will continue to be present in my life, and love myself, in spite of myself.
I pray that His will be done, refusing mine.
True serenity is to find peace in the midst of the storm.

I’m grateful that I am willing to see that I’m stuck, and I am able to take action in order to rid myself, of self.
I will never give up on love.
GOD help me this day.
Dawnasong

LOVE IS JUST A WORD…

FAMILY, INTERESTS, Stories

This last year I made a decision and commitment to learn more about what love is and how it could be applicable in my life.
I was spiritually, and emotionally bankrupt, which left me feeling empty. I knew something had to change. I was desperate for change.
I’d like to share a little of what I have learned and am still learning, for it has made an enormous difference in my life.

I saw this cartoon on F/B. It was a good reminder of what I want for my life.

Love is just a word that requires action. Without the action it’s a lie.

If I love someone, regardless of any adverse situation that may occure, I must act from integrity, responsibility , morality and not my emotions/heart.
When I’m angry I’m incapable of feeling love, therefore I’m incapable of giving and receiving love.
Love isn’t always feeling good. If that were the case the divorce rate would drop considerably!

It’s about growing, giving and loving unconditionally. (& A LOT MORE)

I’m practicing love with my family, friends and myself by doing the next right thing.
This is new for me and I haven’t perfected it by any means; however, I am willing to learn, grow and live along spiritual lines.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Love is just a word that needs a verb. :]💕
[By Dawna Bowles (C)2014]

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[by Dawna (C)2014]

Media library

Humor, INTERESTS, Stories

I’m so distraught!!!
I can’t believe what has happened to my WordPress blog.

Over the last few weeks my site was sluggish and my media wasn’t loading completely, at times it wouldn’t load at all.
My best thinking (and my lack of knowledge) led me to believe that possibly it was the result of the large amount of pictures stored in my WordPress media library.
My solution was to clean out my media library, and
“kill two birds with one stone.”
(For lack of a better term)

First I would dispose of the bulk from my wordpress media library, thus leaving more room for my new pictures.
Secondly my WordPress site would load quickly and easily ensuring it to be more user friendly. Right?
Wrong! Just gos to show how computer savy I am.

I deleted pictures for about an hour.
I probably deleted six or seven hundred photos.
I went to bed that night and when I awoke the next morning, I opened my WordPress blog, and I was utterly shocked!
All those photos I deleted the night before, they were also deleted off of my blogs. I stared at my computer screen in frozen in horror!
Who would believe that if you cleaned your library out that your photographs would also be ripped completely off your blog!
One would think that wordpress would have a pop-up saying,
“this deletion will also delete photos off of your blog,” or something to that affect. My phone and computer warns me with a pop-up saying,
“are you sure you want to delete this picture?” How hard would that be for WordPress to do this? (Never mind)

My first rational thought was to find a solution, easy right? I started surfing the web franticly for some kind of logical solution, but this was to no avail.
Next, I called my daughter Brandy,
for I had remembered she had taken a WordPress class last year.

She informed me that the only way to fix the problem was to open my dashboard, then pull my blogs into edit. I would then have to re-add my backup pictures that were stored on my computer; I would also have to remember which photos go where?
Shouldn’t be to hard right? Considering I only have to sort through ten or eleven thousand pictures stored on my T B

There’s approximately two hundred and fifty blogs to pull.
The next step would be to download a WordPress plug-in to avoid this horrible situation in the future. “Great.”
I was clueless in regards to the importance of this plugin. I guess that’s the cost for not reading the fine print `~°•○☆~sob sob~☆○•°~÷♡ or the cost of not enrolling in a WordPress class at my neighborhood university. ÷(

I honestly feel like deleting my four hundred thirty blogs and starting over!
I’m not quite sure what I’ll do at this point for I’m too emotionally involved.
If anyone has any expertise on this process, maybe an easier way (?) [Crossing my fingers]++++++++
please feel free to share.
Sincerely,
Distraught-dawnasong

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