I think we should do this...we are strong...
 

Answer the following questions...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?

2. What is your hidden talent?

3. What makes you smile?

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?

5. What is your favorite mantra?

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?

8. What is your favorite food?

9. Do you pray?

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".

I just love this stuff.

Jenny

About me...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?

***Optimistic***

2. What is your hidden talent?

***I can knit anything***

3. What makes you smile?

***My kids hugging my dogs. I swear that pets are necessary for raising happy children.***

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?

***The photo on my yearly Christmas Card. WE are that family, at least for that moment we were, so we can do it again.***

5. What is your favorite mantra?

***Let it go..let it go...let it go...(said over and over and over again in my head)***

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.

***Mother's Day this year. I had not been grocery shopping, so my husband got up early with the kids and marched up to my bedroom a few hours later with low fat yogurt, coffee and a stale bagel. They were so proud. I love that they all love me so much. ***

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?

***Either a 5 minutes "Yeah, Mommy is just resting her eyes" nap or doing yoga with the kids***

8. What is your favorite food?

***Sushi. And I don't get enough of it***

9. Do you pray?

***Yes, and most often when I am not expecting to.***

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".

***The middle of the forest, when it is quiet and I hear the birds and the brook and the silent growth of the trees. I am blessed to live in a state where this is cherished and preserved. I visit it as often as possible ***

Answer the following questions...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
**optimistic and joyous

2. What is your hidden talent?
**I can blow bubbles with my tongue

3. What makes you smile?
** my daughter, rain, rainbows, hummingbirds, intellectual conversations, laughter, sunshine thru the rain............

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
**light, energy, waves in the ocean, a stream in the woods

5. What is your favorite mantra?
**everything is as it should be, all is right with the world

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
**The day my daughter was born and my family was complete

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
**goals and ambition to reach them

8. What is your favorite food?
**italian

9. Do you pray?
**I meditate

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
**Angels, white light

I just love this stuff.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?

Determined

2. What is your hidden talent?

I write great mysteries and thrillers

3. What makes you smile?

The beach, my Grands, critters of all types, gardens, Moonlight man, visitors, great conversations, music

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?

My grands at the beach

5. What is your favorite mantra?

This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice in it and be glad

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.

The days my children were born are the BEST but if you're looking for just a happy day...this past friday-I had a house full of friends helping renovate the new place. Lots of work, lots of laughs and a meal shared with friends.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?

Chocolate, a walk, a few minutes of reading

8. What is your favorite food?

turkey

9. Do you pray?

often

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".

The Ocean

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
Courageous

2. What is your hidden talent?
It's hidden even to me, I think! Erm, I make great chicken fajitas.

3. What makes you smile?
When my cat trots across the garden to me when I call her.

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
Sunshine

5. What is your favorite mantra?
Everything will come out in the wash.

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
28th June 2004 when, after 2 months of hard work, we launched our new boat. We have always sailed as a family and had been boat-less since 1998. "Osprey" needed a lot of TLC and we had re-bonded as a family to get her into shape.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
A bike ride, with happy tunes on my i-River.

8. What is your favorite food?
Cheese, especially one I've just discovered - Feta made in Yorkshire.

9. Do you pray?
Hmm. I try.

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
Feeling contentment on the inside no matter what is going on around me.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
Curious

2. What is your hidden talent?
Getting sick animals well, and nervous horses to settle.

3. What makes you smile?
Hubby coming home, my dogs, sunshine, people, acts of kindness.

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
The way horses move, I have so many snapshots in my mind.

5. What is your favorite mantra?
"We must be the change we wish to see in the World" Ghandi. & "Remember to put a laugh in the bank." Don.

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
The first time I rode a fully fit thoroughbred at the gallop - that was pure achievement, desire, passion, freedom, exhilaration and completeness.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
People, being supported when I need support.

8. What is your favorite food?
Oysters!!

9. Do you pray?
No

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
Noticing the colour purple in a field, smiling at something beautiful, noticing something I might have missed and appreciating it.

What a lovely post - Thanks Jenny, it stuck a huge smile on my face!!

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
Outgoing
2. What is your hidden talent?
Only a few ex lovers know
3. What makes you smile?
Lots of things, but if I were to choose the best, seeing my loved ones smile.
4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
Have to think about that one...
5. What is your favorite mantra?
Change is consistent
6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
Honeymoon in Tahiti
7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
Say to myself, get over it! must go on!
8. What is your favorite food?
Fried Chicken
9. Do you pray?
Meditate
10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
Soul mate

Answer the following questions...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?

Friendly

2. What is your hidden talent?

No "hidden" talents, but I play the flute and can dance really well.

3. What makes you smile?

My kids, mostly the baby right now, everything is new to her. And she's developing an incredible sense of humor.

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?

Me relaxing on the beach, with my kids playing nearby. Also music is something that pulls me through more than anything.

5. What is your favorite mantra?

Let it go, leave it alone........


6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.

Sounds so cliche' but giving birth to my kids. And our trip to Disney in April '05.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?

Listening to music, being by myself even if it's just for 10 or 15 minutes.


8. What is your favorite food?

grilled hamburger!

9. Do you pray?

Yes, quite often.

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".

Remembering when I was on vacation in the mountains, I took a hike alone and found the most beautiful stream. I remember sitting there and thinking I wanted to get lost up there.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?

Giving

2. What is your hidden talent?

I am an excellent cook

3. What makes you smile?

My dog :)

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
Getting to the point where I completely trust God to get me through tough times


5. What is your favorite mantra?

God will never give me more than I can handle

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.

When my ex got out of jail, was sober and promised to never have to leave me again.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?

Coffee!

8. What is your favorite food?

Salad

9. Do you pray?

Yes, all the time

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".

Knowing that I fon't have to have all the answers to be calm!

<i>1. What is one positive word to describe you?</i>

Responsible

<i>2. What is your hidden talent?</i>
I can make up songs about anything at the drop of a hat.

<i>3. What makes you smile?</i>
My kids' giggles

<i>4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?</i>
The Lord opening His arms to me.

<i>5. What is your favorite mantra?</i>
I wish I had one. It might help.



<i>6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.</i>
I was 14 years old. We were living in our car. All we had to eat for a week was a loaf of bread and a jar of grape jelly. My mom found five dollars in food stamps on the ground. We bought a half gallon of New Yord Blueberry Cheesecake Ice cream and sat on a picnic bench and ate the whole thing with wooden spoons. It was the best ice cream ever.


<i>7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day? </i>
Listening to the song <i>Trading My Sorrows</i> as loud as possible.

<i>8. What is your favorite food?</i>
Ice cream is a food, right?

<i>9. Do you pray?</i>
I don't believe I'd be alive now if I didn't.

<i>10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".</i>
Lying in the Father's arms, just soaking in His awesome presence.

Answer the following questions...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
**Responsible

2. What is your hidden talent?
**creating new arts and crafts

3. What makes you smile?
** My kids, my friends, learning something new, me and my kids accomplishments, shopping

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
**running toward the sun through a huge field full of wild flowers

5. What is your favorite mantra?
**I am not going to let your actions affect me. (Is that a mantra??)

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
**When I took my two older kids to Disney World for 10 days with my mom, the best 10 days of my life.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
**My kids.

8. What is your favorite food?
**Seafood Alefredo

9. Do you pray?
**Not often enough

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
**Floating on a air mattress on a lake, watching the stars (ALONE)

I just love this stuff.

I'm usually a sucker for these...
 

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
**Friendly

2. What is your hidden talent?
**I can speak backwards

3. What makes you smile?
** My precious 2 dogs and their (usually) funny antics

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
** I guess I don't imagine this...I do it. I love to sit by the river and just enjoy the sun, shade trees, water running, etc.

5. What is your favorite mantra?
** OK, this one perplexed me. I think a mantra is something you repeat to yourself until you believe it, in which case mine is "I am beautiful and confident." However, many people have put a saying they live by, in which case mine is "Everything happens for a reason."

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
** I just had a really, really good moment this past weekend. My entire family gathered to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday. She had 10 kids, so that means our immediate family (with spouses) is comprised of about 35 people!

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
** A great workout

8. What is your favorite food?
** I am such a PASTA nut!!

9. Do you pray?
** Yes

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
** This is silly, but anytime I go shopping alone, I feel so peaceful.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
Passionate
2. What is your hidden talent?
I am a great poet.....
3. What makes you smile?
Babies, people in love and old couples that still hold hands
4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
A beautiful white sand beach and blue water
5. What is your favorite mantra?
I will not get caught up in the drama today!!!
6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
Swinging on swings with my Dad when I was little
7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
A brisk walk
8. What is your favorite food?
I wish it were just one......great pizza
9. Do you pray?
All the time
10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
No more war, alcoholism or anything that takes away from the quality of life

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
*Understanding

2. What is your hidden talent?
*I can draw extemely life-like portraits

3. What makes you smile?
*My students

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
*Memories from when I lived in London

5. What is your favorite mantra?
*"Breathe"

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
*Last summer in the Hamptons with my friends, not a care in the world, dancing through the grass after a fun night out.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
*A nap if I have time, otherwise coffee!

8. What is your favorite food?
*Currently it's Mexican... Oh yeah, and chocolate

9. Do you pray?
*Yes

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
*The Maine coastline at dusk - the sound of the waves and the distant flashing of lighthouses.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
* Resourceful

2. What is your hidden talent?
* Trivia, puzzles, games

3. What makes you smile?
* A compliment, a good deed, either giving or receiving

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
* Bluffs along the Mississippi River

5. What is your favorite mantra?
* "I'm being devinely led. Thy will be done"

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
* My wedding day

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
* A good conversation

8. What is your favorite food?
* Ice cream

9. Do you pray?
* Often, but never enough

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
* Quietly sitting by a lake, listening to the birds and water, watching a sunset.

Answer the following questions...

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
A Muse

2. What is your hidden talent?
The ability to make people feel special

3. What makes you smile?
My daughter

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
A sunny day at the beach

5. What is your favorite mantra?
Lately "Let go and let God" Or just "HELP"

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
The day the doctor congradulated me because my daughter was out of the woods when her appendix ruptured. She was strong enough to surrvive that when just 2 days a little boy had died from it.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
Walking into the house and hearing the sound of my daughters laughter.

8. What is your favorite food?
Do I have to pick one???? impossible.

9. Do you pray?
Every hour of every day, in one way or another.

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
When my daughter was young, sleeping in my arms while I was being held by the person I loved.

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
authentic

2. What is your hidden talent?
helping people connect

3. What makes you smile?
seeing my kids really engaged in some kind of critical thinking process that
they're really excited about

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
just being alone with / comforted by someone I love and trust in a far-away,
quiet place

5. What is your favorite mantra?
everything I need shall be provided today -- everything

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
giving birth at hone with a lay mid-wife (and my best friend) to my second
son (after having had an unnecessary c-section with my first) -- that's the
absolute best, most powerful moment of my life

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
breathing excercises, chakra tune-in, a little break with time to talk to a
good friend, or a short nap

8. What is your favorite food?
totellini w/ cream sauce, prosciutto and peas (that's right now -- tomorrow
will be something different, depends on my mood and the time of month!)

9. Do you pray?
meditation, affirmations, the rosary (as a ritual I connect to my HP through
my grandmother by saying the rosary -- I no longer consider myself Christian
but since I was brought up Catholic, I find the pratice of the ritual very
spiritua/nurutringl, especially as it is very connected with my grandmother)

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
just quiet and safe with no one to be taken care of and nothing to be done

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
compassionate
2. What is your hidden talent?
cooking: creating new dishes without recipes
3. What makes you smile?
children playing and laughing
4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
ocean waves rolling in and away from the shore

5. What is your favorite mantra?
I know you are present in my life, Lord God

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
Christmas eve dinner: For the past 20 some years, we gather each year with dear friends and family and enjoy an ethnic dinner of seven fishes and traditional accompanying dishes. We share food and stories and end the evening with midnight mass. It is the warmest night of the year.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
Meditating for 20-30 minutes or a good yoga session
8. What is your favorite food?
today? linguine with clam sauce, red

9. Do you pray?
always
with words; without words;
with movement; in stillness

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
Agape

1. What is one positive word to describe you?
Humorous

2. What is your hidden talent?
I know how to crochet.

3. What makes you smile?
When my cats and dogs do funny things.

4. What image do you picture on your darkest days?
Living in a cabin on an island.

5. What is your favorite mantra?
It's not as bad as it seems.

6. Describe a moment in your life that was good, really good.
The day I realized that I am a good person.

7. What revs you up when you are feeling like you have no more energy to complete the day?
A nap

8. What is your favorite food?
Filet mignon

9. Do you pray?
No

10. What comes to mind with the word "Peace".
The day there are no mean people left in the world.