we all try to climb up the same ladder..

"i wish that i was strong enough to lift not one but both of us.. someday i will be strong enough to lift not one but both of us."

this is a powerful song. 

ive been thinking a lot recently about how fortunate my family, my friends and i are.  we have money, education, shelter, clothes, jobs, paycheques, cars, healthcare and clean drinking water. we have books to read and mandatory schooling. we are able to care how we look and how we dress. life it not hard for us, how can it be? what if we didn't have these things. why do we ever feel we are better than the poorer people, the less educated, the people without clean drinking water? why do we think we have the right? it makes me feel sick knowing we carry these attitudes yet they are almost daily. sure we struggle. we struggle with death and depression, eating disorders and alcoholism. we struggle with hate and embarrassment, heartbreak and abuse. maybe the fortunate ones are not happy, but in no way is life hard for us. we have the means necessary to make us happy and healthy and we brag we have it and do nothing with it. 

Happy Monday!

this picture made me smile this morning.

he is a beautiful puppy.

waking up..

someone important got me thinking. 
its morning and you wake up, either alone or beside someone who is still asleep. whats on your mind when you are not in a rush, when you have time to just lay there? when im laying in bed and the sun is shining through the tiny separation between the beautiful homemade curtains covering my window, im thinking how glad i am to wake up. i love waking up when i have the option to sleep, the option to lay in bed for a few hours and do nothing. when you wake up to the sound of an alarm its not the same. alarms usually mean you have something to do, somewhere to be.. you cant just lay in bed and think. when i can lay in bed and just think i definitely do. i think about my day, who i want to spend it with, what i want to do. i think about somewhere new i want to go, somewhere to walk guinness or vacation to. i'll listen to the birds, the rain, the sounds of the morning. i'll think about getting up and making coffee but often like the idea of laying there a bit longer better. i plan to enjoy the day, do things i love, not stress.
i can't imagine not waking up positive. i dont think i am able to wake up unhappy. sure i can wake up stressing about my day, or i can wake up and want to go back to sleep because i am so tired, but i can't imagine waking up and hating it.. waking up and wanting to go back and sleep forever.
in a perfect world would everyone wake up with dreams and hopeful ideas?


"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar" - Oscar Wilde




*i am aware my selection of quotes does not always align with my posted words, but these quotes i enjoy or have taken something away from*

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my weekend was full of food, beautiful weather, family and friends

 tiger stripe and birthday cake ice cream,

hutches down by the hamilton bay front

enjoying white wine sangria out on the back deck + reading

and of course my little ball of fluff

my long weekend was also filled with:

great conversations with amazing people

fireworks

hot tubs and pools

red velvet cupcakes and butter tarts

good books

"The commonly held view these days is that people don't write love letters anymore, and that email and text messaging are death to romance"- ursula doyle