My OBT

What if you spent every day looking for One Beautiful Thing?


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Wednesday’s Child

adoptedMonday’s child is fair of face,
Tuesday’s child is full of grace;
Wednesday’s child is full of woe,
Thursday’s child has far to go;
Friday’s child is loving and giving,
Saturday’s child works hard for its living;
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

-“Monday’s Child” by Mother Goose

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365 Days of Beautiful Things!!!

I did it! I managed at least one post every single day for an entire year. Continue reading


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A Valentine to Elderly Mothers

“Why can’t you fly now, mother?”
“Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way.”
“Why do they forget the way?”
“Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.”
― “Peter Pan” J.M. Barrie

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