Hello to all my Blogging Friends, Time this week has been short to spend on WordPress, So I am reposting a poem I wrote 2 yrs ago…. Happiness is a state of Being… While I paint and garden this week, I have little time to get around you all…. Enjoy and BE HAPPY!
Love Sue xxx
Below is a Poem I wrote last night, as I couldn’t sleep.. It reflected my day as looked out into my Garden as I looked at the wonderful rainbow colours of flowers. They filled my heart as I took in a deep breathe . I woke up with these Words repeating over and over in my mind, and Just had to reach for my journal to write them down.
The words I heard were this one sentence. ” HAPPINESS IS A STATE OF BEING ” and so the Poem was Born..
Below I’ve also added a slide show of some of the flowers in my garden..
Happiness is a state of being
Look around at what I’m seeing
Shapes and colours of every hue
Natures Garden just for you
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Happiness is a state of mind
You needn’t look far in you want to find
A scent of perfume rare and grand
Just…
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 16:28:32
Like a fine wine, your words have mellowed beautifully over the last two years.
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 16:30:50
Thank you most kindly Paul… 🙂
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 16:41:35
a great reminder … have a zen filled week (!_!)
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:38:58
Hi Art.. I have a wonderful Zen filled week.. All the better for see you too (!_!) 🙂 xxx _/\_
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 16:43:32
So sweet a way to contact your WP friends,dear Sue !!! Loved your calm and kind thoughts in your verses ! It’s really sad when happiness is so close to us,but we refuse to grab it … Painting your garden and your flower pots is happiness.
Do enjoy it my friend ! Love ~♥~♥~♥~ and hugs, Doda 🙂 xxx
PS : I’ll never forget the sun on your garden bucket … That was happiness … :-))))
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:32:17
I will never forget you pointing the Sun out to me either Doda.. Love to you my sweet friend… I have still lots more to paint.. But as I began work again on Wed’ I have had to leave alone for a while.. so as the Sun fades the PC is out to shine again for a while 🙂 xxx Much love your ways too and hope all is well with you too 🙂
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 18:16:25
Beautiful thoughts and so true indeed 🙂
Happiness is all in the mind, and all your words in the poem connect well, Sue
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:23:43
Dear Ruchira, thank you so much, I so appreciate your visits here… Much love sent your way.x x x
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 18:43:26
Love reading your posts no matter when they were written. Visit with dad is going well, although I may need to get sleep when I get home. When I’m here I get on his and my sister’s schedule so tend to not sleep as much. No problem, though, as I am glad to help out in any way that I can. I am entertained by the Mockingbird each day. Hope your days are going well. xoxox
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:22:20
Aww thank you Renee.. I am pleased your Dad’s visit going well.. Love Mockingbirds,, we do not have them here though.. I am enjoying the Blackbirds Song.. 🙂 xxx
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 18:49:42
A beautiful poem, Sue. Enjoy happiness, my dear friend! 🙂 xxxx
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:18:38
Enjoying, and oh how time flys when your having FUN.. 🙂 xxx LOL xxx
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Jun 19, 2014 @ 19:33:23
Lovely 🙂 I find that even in the dead of winter (which we just so happen to be in at the moment 😉 ) if I am feeling at all depressed, all I have to do is wander out into the garden to get reinvigorated and re-enthused about life. A garden is a precious thing, even if it’s just a couple of pots on a deck or a small balcony. Nature heals 🙂
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:07:02
I so agree Narf77.. 🙂 Nature is right under our noses and if we would just reconnect back to that which is on our doorstep and appreciate all living things.. How much more Happiness we would feel as we realised what we have to be grateful for.. We have so much to be thankful for.. Especially when you consider how others have to live in their parts of the world..
Many thanks for your most welcome visit and comment.. Nature really does HEAL… 🙂 Big smiles… 😀 xxx
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:26:22
No-one would want what is on my doorstep at the moment. It’s a mix of crusher dust doggy footprints and wipings from what our chickens kindly left behind 😉
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:34:11
Wishing you a happy weekend with the brush in hand LOL… 🙂 xxxx HUGS your way.. xox
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:36:03
😉 Earl and Bezial say “GOOD LUCK WITH THAT IT’S STILL RAINING!” 😉 I am thinking it might be easier to buy them both some wellies and stand by the back door waiting for them to pelt in and wrestle them to the ground to remove them. 50 year old women don’t need gyms to keep fit if they have 2 dogs 😉
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:38:36
LOL… love that… 🙂 … you paint the most amazing images.. and I have an over active imagination LOL 🙂 xxx
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:39:47
This time it’s not my imagination, it is my inner narf who wants to go back to being houseproud prior to getting dogs (and Steve 😉 )…sigh…AINT GONNA HAPPEN! 😉
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:40:52
I am smiling as I read all about the Narf tank.. LOL…
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:43:15
Glad we have it installed as it has been raining here since 4am and narf is MOST happy. I can imagine all of that free and most delicious rainwater scooting into the tank (less for the dogs to get on their paws when they turn right side up and stop snoring in about 30 minutes 😉 )
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:52:43
🙂 we have around 6 rain barrels in the allotments that collect rain water when it rains from the roof.. We bemoan the amount of rain England gets, but without water nothing grows, we forget how precious Water is… 🙂 xxx
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 21:57:55
Here we only get rain about 4 times over a 5 month period in our long dry summer. Not too hot but SOOO dry! We are more like Greece when it comes to summer so getting rainwater tanks to supplement our tap water is a must rather than a choice to be honest. We found this tank at a bargain price and the man was just living down the road from us so it was sort of like narf karma as I had been wanting a rainwater tank for AGES. Stage 1 on the narf sufficiency chart “TICK” :). Next I want that Dutch nautilus style wind turbine and all of my Christmases will come at once 😉
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 22:02:18
Well I am a great believer in manifesting… Once a thought has been sent and the intent is strong then leave it to the Universe to bring into being.. It happens like that… so… wind turbine on its way.. LOL.. 🙂
Have a great rest of you day,, as I climb our wooden Hill..
Loved our chat this evening.. Hugs Sue xox
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 22:03:58
I will bake “The Universe” a cake if it sends me a wind turbine 😉
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Jun 28, 2014 @ 15:53:49
I hope you have got your ingredients ready… and a BIG BOWL… 🙂 xxx its been Cosmically Ordered! 🙂
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Jun 28, 2014 @ 19:56:40
I did bake 2 cakes yesterday. I found a Georgio Locatelli recipe for a vegan chocolate cake. SO easy! Just toss some dry ingredients in a bowl, some wet ones in another bowl, mix them together and tip them into a greased, lined cake tin. The first cake I made was in a bolshie bundt tin that was living on borrowed time. The best way to test any cake in my opinion is to run it by the bolshie bundt. It’s usual modus operandi is to stick to the cake like glue no matter how much grease and flour you put into it (impossible to line it) and I told it “you stick, I throw you OUT this time mateo!” It didn’t stick :). A large perfectly formed bundt resulted in only 20 minutes! I then threw another cake together and this time ran out of bicarb…had my ideas that I might be dancing on the edge of a pin BUT you know me…”no guts, no glory” so off I went…oh DEAR! Needless to say that cake really does need that bicarb…lesson learned and a chocolate cake on it’s way out to the hungry hoards of chooks 😦
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Jun 30, 2014 @ 13:46:47
Awww, well one thing you had One good Cake and the chooks had a real treat.. :-)… Lessons learned… I am just mulling over doing a new recipe I found of Rhubarb and Strawberry crumble… When I get some caster sugar in I am all set as I have both Rhubarb and Strawberries ripening in the garden… So if I bake I will share the recipe on my page with pics later when I have time.. speaking of which I owe you a visit for a good read… xxx Hugs Sue
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Jun 30, 2014 @ 19:25:47
Stevie-boy isn’t a fan at ALL of rhubarb so I tend not to bother with it. I might get a few crowns to grow in the garden just because I can and because I could eat it if I wanted. Always a good thing 🙂
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 02:01:51
Beautiful as always , dear Sue…
I loved these verses: “Happiness is a state of mind
You needn’t look far in you want to find A scent of perfume”…
Highly evocative and meaningful, my sweet blogger friend.
Thanks for sharing your magic.
Best wishes, Aquileana 😛
.இڿڰۣ-ڰۣ—
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:59:43
Dear Aquileana… at last I have 2 days freer time to catch up here.. Life has been full this last week,, I have crammed so much into it. Painting, gardening as well as working.. I am so thrilled you enjoyed this old poem of mine.. I will catch up very soon with your recent posts also.. .. xxx Hugs Sue
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 21:01:37
Hugs right back at you sweetie… Whenever you want and can… I ‘ll catch up with you soon !!!
Aquileana 😀
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 08:07:31
Hello! Thanks for a nice visit on the blog. I greet and wish you a wonderful weekend.
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:56:51
Dear Marko, lovely to see you and you are most welcome… Your photos were as always spectacular.. xox
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 13:09:59
And I know that the gardening and painting will enhance your happiness.
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:55:18
Dear Frank, thank you, for being patient… Yes Painting and gardening have enhance my well being… And I have and am enjoying more ME time… I hope your still dancing and swinging that old club.. 😉 xxx See you soon as I catch up with everyone . xox
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 17:10:53
Oh yes … dancing and golfing are two of my favorite past times.
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Jun 20, 2014 @ 22:38:51
Happiness is not living someone else’s life and believing that their purpose is also yours.
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:51:59
Correct Beverley.. Life is for Living in our own creative ways… Big hugs to you xox 🙂
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Jun 21, 2014 @ 02:57:15
Have fun planting and painting — ENJOY!! 😀
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:49:30
The painting is still on going… the planting is done, the weeding never ending… But Life is being lived to the Max.. and that is all that matters… as we embrace our own Happy states of being.. 🙂 Love to you back dear Becca.. and thank you for calling by… xox
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Jun 21, 2014 @ 04:44:53
Beautiful words, Sue, thank you for sharing again and enjoy your off-line time! 🙂 ♥ xo
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:47:45
Dear Lauren… Many thanks for you kind visit and welcome comment.. Time goes all too swift.. I so enjoyed, and got lots done.. I still have much to do, but know Time is but an illusion LOL.. 🙂 Love and Light my friend xox Sue
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Jun 21, 2014 @ 07:07:55
Dear Sue, I read your beautiful poem on Happiness….and saw your lovely paintings. Today, this morning, as I sat in the Garden looking at the flowers and enjoying the cool breeze touching my body, I wondered how well God has made His creations. All around me I saw God in His creations. He is perfect! We only give a ‘name’ to the ‘form’ and ‘colour’ that He creates. This sight and thought made me happy, rather put me in a state of Bliss. Maybe contentment is a state of happiness or bliss.
Love, Blessings and Regards, Surinder
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:46:13
Dear Surinder… forgive my absence.. and thank you so much for your kind thoughts.. they are in themselves full of inspiration… God our Creator is in ALL Things.. would we but just Look and SEE… .
Many thanks for you most welcome comment and visit xox Sue
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Jun 22, 2014 @ 07:33:27
Happy words and Happy photos… just what the doctor ordered, Thankyou Sue… take care, Barbara x
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:41:54
So pleased you enjoyed Barbara.. and much love and Happiness back.. xx Sue xox
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Jun 22, 2014 @ 15:56:53
Wishing you great well being with eternal happiness! love and light, Eddie
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:37:20
Dear Eddie, thank you my great friend.. I am smiling ever wider my friend.. In love and Gratitude..
Dreamwalker xox
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Jun 22, 2014 @ 17:22:15
Such a great idea to stay connected while you are busy in your garden and painting, Sue, I love this! Have fun and enjoy! ♥♥♥ ;^)
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:36:01
Hi Aisha… Life can get very busy in the growing season.. Plus my work load takes off.. But I found time to paint too.. Now just need to fit in WP and all is well 🙂 haha…. I had lots of Joy.. catch up with you very soon .. xox Sue
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Jun 23, 2014 @ 01:54:35
Sue, I would love to see what is blooming in your garden. You happiness is so contagious!
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:32:51
Thank you dear Maria… I hope my happiness keeps on spreading and growing also.. 🙂 I will catch up with your own posts shortly.. As i get back into the swing of WP xox 🙂
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Jun 24, 2014 @ 15:28:08
I do agree with both definitions about happiness: a state of mind and of being… 🙂
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here’s an interesting one, too: 🙂
“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again… Never mind what you feel. Think. Watch. Think again. And then one step at a time to put things right. As a mason puts one block at a time. To build solid and good. So with thought. Think. Build one solid thought at a time. Then act.”(Richard Llewellyn – “How Green Was My Valley…”)
http://myvirtualplayground.wordpress.com/2014/06/16/sancy-volvic-auvergne-france-the-beautiful/
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:30:25
What a beautiful way of expression Melanie .. I know we are both building together my friend… One brick, one step one mouthful at a time One Thought at a time… We grow and progress… 😀 xxxx I will get back to your virtual play ground so soon.. Just as soon as I catch up here with all my comments.. xox Sue
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Jun 25, 2014 @ 08:37:55
I think that is spot on Everyone can be happy when aware of all the treasures right at their feet weather it is a flower, a smell, laughter as long as your heart is open to it. The more you are open to it or concentrate on it the more you notice
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Jun 26, 2014 @ 20:27:17
Dear Marja.. so lovely to see you, I have so so much catching up to do… We have lots of treasures right at our feet Marja.. I am so happy our own hearts are open… Love and Light my friend.. xxx
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Jun 27, 2014 @ 23:03:23
I’m glad you reposted this one as I seem to have missed it the first time around xo I really think it’s so true that happiness comes from within – and it’s about the connection between the heart and mind. Friendship bring more happiness too – like my friendship with you 🙂
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Jun 28, 2014 @ 15:52:39
Thank you Christy, I am pleased you enjoyed, and got to read… I know you said you enjoyed my poems.. I have not had much time to write as many, Not as many sleepless nights LOL.. as that is usually when the pen and journal comes out and inspiration takes a hold.. Wishing you a Happy Weekend xxx and thank you always for your kind friendship… 🙂
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Jun 29, 2014 @ 17:13:11
For me, it’s about staying in the now. Not thinking of the future or the past. Just being in this moment–makes it a lot easier to be happy. 🙂
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Jun 30, 2014 @ 13:22:56
I so agree Kourtney, we can not change the past, and do not know what the future holds so its no good worrying about it… So much better to stay in our NOW moments and be happy in them.. We miss so much of our Now moments when we stay in the past or worry over the future..
Be Happy my friend xox Sue 🙂
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