Your inner child wants to come out and play!!!

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
~Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

On being a mushroom

Marko up to bat
Mark pitching....Marko made it to third
Marko being coached by Coach Tom
Marko running for home



Hi!! I was feeling frustrated today at work because Mark called me and said we owe 10,000 to the goverment for federal taxes. (we filed for an extension) My friend, Roberta, (an awesome nurse that I work with) said that one of the social workers told her this quote.....Jean said it was a quote from her dad "if your only problems can be fixed by 50,000 dollars than you don't really have any problems." It is true...we have 3 healthy kids.....one which just played an awesome baseball game tonight...... very, very active grandparents that do so much with our kids. awesome friends and jobs we love...a wonderful neighborhood........daughters who love to dance and are able to do so much.....(I miss them so much this week...they are at orchestra camp at Balwin Wallace college.) what am I worried about? Thank you Roberta for putting my priorities in place!! Hope you love the quote below!!! Love, Michele
"I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man--he is a mushroom!" -- The Little Prince

Jacob's gift

This is an odd picture. Perhaps I should explain.
Somehow....I got connected with this family in Wisconsin who had a little boy that was on
palliative care for a brain tumor (which is comfort focused, no longer cure focused.) His name was Jacob.
I was asked to call the mom and talk to her about glyconutrients.....(I have two friends of our family that were to the palliative care point, one with breast cancer and one with renal cancer, that are now thriving and cancer free after starting on glyconutrients) anyway....I talked to this mom several times on the phone and really tried to help him. but he was already starting to shut down and I don't think they could ever get enough of the product in him.
Anyway for some reason I felt really bonded to him even though I had no idea what he looked like. Anyway on the day that Jacob died...I got phone message of his passing by a friend of their family......this is what appeared in my cup of coffee that morning.
I figured it was his way of saying hi.
I sent a copy of this picture to his mom, along with a framed poem that Mark wrote about him on a picture that Macy drew for his mom. He was the same age as Macy.
She later sent me a thank you note with Jacob's picture inside a star......it had this quote below in it......and that is why I am sooooo deeply drawn to the little prince.
Happy Mother's Day.
Love,
Michele

At night, when you look up at the sky,
since I shall be living on a star,
and since I shall be laughing on a star,
for you it will be as if all the stars are laughing.
You alone will have stars that can laugh!
And when you have got over your loss
(for we always do),
you’ll be happy to have known me.
You will always be my friend.
You will want to laugh with me.
The Little Prince

The Little Prince

Below are quotes from another favorite of mine!-Michele

The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translated by Richard Howard)

All grown-ups were children first. (But few remember it). It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man. You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.