Favorite Book for the Month of August

My favorite book for the month of August is "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini. This is a beautiful book which is extremely well written. Easy to read and one of those books that is able to captivate the readers interest. This book brings into focus the hardship faced by those in Afghanistan over the years, especially women. The book talks about loss, unimaginably grief, death and despair, but even when faced with these terrible circumstances the characters in the book are able to overcome these hardships and find a way go on with their lives. This book highlights the importance of friendship, enduring love, kindness and the ability of the human spirit to eventually triumph. This is a book which will make you feel grateful for all that you have been blessed with in comparison to the people in Afghanistan. Definitely worth a read.

Experience

I’ve learnt that there is a subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, I now know that kisses aren't contracts, and presents aren't promises, and even sunshine burns if you get too much !
-Unknown

Photographs

Pictures are what we have left when time has taken everything else from us.

Perceptions

Our perceptions are always colored by what we hope, what we fear and what we love.
-Paraphrased from "Bones"

Love

Real love is feeling like being a part of that person's life almost isn't enough. It's more like a feeling that you would live in the same skin with them if you could and share every thought, heart beat, and emotion as one.
-Rod Cannon

Enlightenment

Enlightenment is not imagining figures of light but making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Gustav Jung

Heart Break

All last summer in case you dont recall,
I was yours and you were mine forget it all,
Is there a line that I could write,
Sad enough to make you cry,
All the lines you wrote to me were lies,
The months roll past the love that you struck dead,
Did you love me only in my head?
Things you said and did to me,
Seemed to come so easily,
The love I thought I'd won,
You give for free.......

-Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms

Top Ten Favorite Songs for the Month of July

• What About Now -Daughtry
• Gin Soaked Boy - Divine Comedy
• Coma - Buckethead
• Destination Unknown - Alex Gaudino
• Hypnotised - Gia Mellish & Sebastien Leger
• Crying in the Rain - A-Ha
• Don't Leave Home -Dido
• In the Sun - Cold play
• The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
• Found out about you - Gin Blossoms

Daddy

Dad, you're someone I look up to no matter how tall I've grown.

~Dedicated in memory of my father on his Birthday

Desire

Too often, the thing you want most is the one thing you can't have. Desire leaves us heartbroken, it wears us out. Desire can wreck your life. But as tough as wanting something can be; The people who suffer the most, are those who don't know what they want.
-Grey's Anatomy

History

Our history resurfaces time after time after time. So we have to remember sometimes that the most important history is the history we're making today.
-Grey's Anatomy

Tragedy

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
-Robert Kennedy

Ten Things that I love doing :

• Eating
• Listening to Music
• Dancing
• Cooking
• Playing with a doggie
• Reading
• Shopping
• Travelling
• Writing Poetry
• Sleeping