The one message I want my children to leave home with.

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  1. ogradyart – Australia – I am an Artist and Interior Designer. My love of music, poetry and writing has given me immense pleasure as has painting. It is my endeavour to present an on-going catalogue of my painting through Wordpress and Instagram.
    bristlehound on said:

    Very true Lisa.
    Maybe the reverse is also true?

    The ability to strive and work cannot be measured, but it certainly leaves one happy and content.

    Nice thoughts.B

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    • Lisa Lillibridge/Dakota 1966 – I grew up roaming and scavenging the plains of southern South Dakota. That childhood landscape instilled a desire for spaciousness that's stayed with me into adulthood. My work often reflects these themes.
      Lisa Lillibridge/Dakota 1966 on said:

      I should post it upside down as well—shouldn’t I? You’re right happiness does at least require some effort. We have to make it happen, don’t we?

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  2. ogradyart – Australia – I am an Artist and Interior Designer. My love of music, poetry and writing has given me immense pleasure as has painting. It is my endeavour to present an on-going catalogue of my painting through Wordpress and Instagram.
    bristlehound on said:

    True, it needs to be worked at.
    It is good to know that happiness is not a destination but a journey.B

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  3. Lisa Lillibridge/Dakota 1966 – I grew up roaming and scavenging the plains of southern South Dakota. That childhood landscape instilled a desire for spaciousness that's stayed with me into adulthood. My work often reflects these themes.
    Lisa Lillibridge/Dakota 1966 on said:

    I was sent some other suggestions for EQUALS—Unravels? Punctuates? Surfs with? Tattoos?
    Seduces? Massages? Spit-shines, Shampoos? I didn’t think about how others would feel about equals. Few things are completely even as the word implies. I took it as that little extra effort that makes you feel better about yourself…eating on a dish, getting the garbage out of the car, making your bed AS WELL AS the grand things like pouring yourself into something and the satisfaction that comes from the doing (effort). I think I should redo this post and it would look like this.
    EFFORT SPIT-SHINES A LITTLE SATISFACTION
    Thanks Mark. Your response to this post will inform a lot for me. No, not inform…untangle, delouse, perforate perhaps?

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