Tag: Happiness
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Dogs are Friends
Dogs are amazing in so many ways. Life is so much fuller and happier with a dog. They know when you need affection. When you are sad they will sit with you. Dogs love unconditionally. Get a dog. Make a new friend.
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Reading is Everything
If you don’t read you are missing out on a magic that is unmatched by any other force in the universe. There is nothing you can say to change my mind. Books are the gate and you have the key.
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Hello December
We love sending and receiving Christmas cards. Please use the “Contact Us” link above or click the picture below to give us your address. The O’Gara Clan will send you a card in the mail. Yes, with real paper, a stamp, love, and holiday cheer! Like sending cards too? Here’s our address! The O’Garas PO…
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Stress
I am usually very good at dealing with stress. Today, not so much. I had to stop and remind myself who I am, what is important to me and what my dreams are. Putting those three things in my mind settled my soul.
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Rain
Today is raining. I like rain. Is is refreshing and soothing. Even the raging storm can rejuvenate nature after it passes. Life is like a rain storm. Calm, chaotic, renewing and growth all in its own time . Enjoy the rain and the peace that follows.
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Love is…
Love is being there for your person even when you want to do something else. Love is giving respect to your person. Love is liking your person when they do not like themselves. Love is all the polite things you do for strangers, but doing them because you want to not because they are polite…
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Traditionally I’m Over It
I want to skip the holiday this week. That would be selfish. Americans love their USA holidays. It’s so much stress and does not fit into my focused simple life plan. My children don’t like traditional Thanksgiving food. Often we serve alternative meals. This year we are, for the first time, going to a restaurant…
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Mini Road-trips
Want to get your family away from screens? Put everyone on the car, go an hour or two from home and pretend your from out of state. My husband sat in the back seat with the kids and I drove. We played music and sang with the radio. Spent he day pretending to be tourists.…
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Happy is as Happy Does
Want to be happy? Here’s the secret…get ready…it’s an amazing thing….ok, here it goes… If you want to be happy, be happy. Choose happy. Live happy. Let go of everything and everyone who interferes with your happy. Happy is as happy does. Fact.
Brendan & Lori O'Gara 