What A Beautiful Day

This song reminds me, us, to celebrate our days with people. I love how this song celebrates relationships. It reminds me of a friend, Dan, who regularly posts on Facebook how many months he has been married to his wife and how grateful he is for that. Too often we get so wrapped up in the day to day grind that we forget to celebrate the presence of people in our lives. For me this song is a reminder to do that. When we forget to celebrate people is when we also forget to be grateful for what they add into our lives, when we forget to consider their words, their hearts, and their feelings.

Let's see, today is right around Lanny and I's 6,205 day together! I clearly remember day 1, this quiet guy who had a cute butt! HAHAHAHAHA! Too much info? Too bad! :)

Have a great Friday and don't forget to celebrate the people in your life today!

What A Beautiful Day

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Butter someone up

There are two probable origins for this idiom and I think both are equally plausible. The first one is that when you spread butter on bread you are buttering it up like one would do when trying to flatter someone. The second is in ancient India there was a practice of throwing balls of butter at statues to ask for favor, i.e. buttering them up. ( source ) When we use the phrase today we generally mean that extreme flattery is used to gain information or favor. It's not always necessarily a compliment.

A dime a dozen

"It's said that in the year 1796, the first U.S. dimes were produced for circulation. Hence, it would make sense for this phrase to originate sometime after." Read more here . Today the phrase carries the meaning that something is cheap or without value if it can be lumped in with other similar or exactly-like things. It's more of an insult than anything.

Life according to van Gogh...sort of

There are two ways of thinking about painting, how not to do it and how to do it; how to do it -- with much drawing and little color; how not to do it -- with much color and little drawing. Vincent van Gogh in a l etter to Theo van Gogh, April 1882 Life is a little bit like today's quote from van Gogh. Some of us live life focusing on the drawing - the details - and have very little color. Others of us go for the color and forsake, to a degree, the drawing - the details. Unlike painting, according to van Gogh, one is not wrong over the other but somewhere in between the two would be the best I would think. If you look at some of van Gogh's paintings I feel like you can see where he might have struggled between the "how to do it" and the " how not to do it" (as he admittedly loved color so much but knew he had to focus more on the drawing) and that seems to be reflected in his life as well. In the end he wasn't able to find the ...

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