Sunday Morning Sunshine: If You Want to Be Loved

Don't contradict people, even if you're sure you are right.

Don't be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friends., even

Don't underrate anything because you don't possess it.

Don't believe that everybody else in the world is happier than you.

Don't conclude that you have never had any opportunities in life.

Don't be rude to your inferiors in social position.

Don't repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd.

Learn to hide your aches and pains under a pleasant smile. Few care whethere you have earache, headache, or rheumatism.

Learn to attend to your own business.

Do not try to be anything else but a gentleman or a gentlewoman, and that means one who has consideration for the whole world, and whose life is governed by the Golden Rule. "Do unto others as you would be done by."

Ouch?  or Amen?

Sunday Sunshine: When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You hung my first painting on the refrigerator

And I wanted to paint another.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You fed a stray cat

And I thought it was good to be kind to animals.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You baked a birthday cake just for me

And I knew that little things were special things.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You said a prayer

And I believed there was a God

that I could always talk to.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You kissed me goodnight

and I felt loved.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

I saw tears come from your eyes

And I learned that sometimes things hurt--

But that it's okay to cry.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You smiled

And it made me want to

look that pretty too.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

You cared

And I wanted to be everything I could be.

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

I looked...

And wanted to say thanks

For all those things you did

When you thought I wasn't looking.

--Mary Rita Schilke Korsan

Happy Mother's Day!!