FAIRY KINDNESS.. SPA's FAIRIES CHALLENGE...

 "Do you believe in fairies...

If you believe, clap your hands!" 

                                                                                                                        ~

                                                                                     J.M. Barrie

A TOUCH OF FAIRY DUST... DIGITAL WHISPER's FAIRY LAND CHALLENGE...

 "Life itself 

is the most wonderful fairy tale." 

~

 Hans Christian Andersen

SHINE A LIGHT ON FREEDOM... OMM's FREEDOM CHALLENGE...

 "With freedom, 

flowers, books, and the moon, 

who could not be perfectly happy?"

~

 Oscar Wilde

FLOWER GODDESS... SPA's FRIDA KAHLO CHALLENGE...

"Don't pay attention to me.

I'm from another planet.

I still see horizons where you

draw borders,"

~

Frida Kahlo

CELEBRATE FREEDOM FOR ALL... DIGITAL WHISPER's INDEPENDENCE DAY CHALLENGE...

 O beautiful for spacious skies, 

For amber waves of grain, 

For purple mountain majesties 

Above the fruited plain! 

America! America! 

God shed His grace on thee 

And crown thy good with brotherhood 

From sea to shining sea!

~

Katherine Lee Bates

ENJOY THE JOURNEY... OMM's JOURNEY CHALLENGE...

 "Life is about 

accepting the challenges along the way, 

choosing to keep moving forward, 

and savoring the journey." 

~

 Roy T. Bennett

FLYING ACE... DIGITAL WHISPER's AIRPLANE CHALLENGE...

 

"If the black box flight recorder

 is never damaged during a plane crash, 

why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?  ~ 

George Carlin

BUGS ARE WAITING... SPA's INSECT CHALLENGE...

 "If all mankind were to disappear, 

the world would regenerate back 

to the rich state of equilibrium 

that existed ten thousand years ago. 

If insects were to vanish, 

the environment would collapse into chaos." 

~

 Edward O. Wilson

HAND JIVE... OMM's HANDS CHALLENGE...

 "We're each of us alone, to be sure. 

What can you do 

but hold your hand out in the dark?" 

~

 Ursula K. Le Guin

MASCULINE OVERKILL... SPA's MASCULINE CHALLENGE...

 "The stronger a man is, 

the more gentle he can afford to be" 

~

 Elbert Hubbard

THE JOYS OF FATHERHOOD... DIGITAL WHISPER's DADDY CHALLENGE...

 "Father, I am what you made me. 

I’ve become your daughter after all." 

~

 Holly Black

THANKS DAD.

A THING WITH FEATHERS... OMM's FEATHER CHALLENGE...

"Hope is the thing with feathers 

That perches in a tree all day

It does it's little business

An then it flies away." 

~

Apologies to Emily Dickinson

ME & MY ARROWS... SPA's ARROW CHALLENGE...

 "The trouble is, 

sometimes words are like arrows. 

Once you shoot them, 

there's no going back."

~ 

Jess Rothenberg

RAIN STORMS THEY COME... DIGITAL WHISPER's RAIN CHALLENGGE...

 "Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. 

It's about learning to dance in the rain." 

~

 Sherrilyn Kenyon

TIME... OMM's TIME CHALLENGE...

 "All we have to decide 

is what to do with the time that is given us."

~

 J.R.R. Tolkien

MONA DOES LIPSTICK... DIGITAL WHISPER"s MONA LOVES LIPSTICK CHALLENGE...

 "Beauty, to me, 

is about being comfortable in your own skin. 

That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." 

~

 Gwyneth Paltrow

NAP TIME... SPA's OWL CHALLENGE...

 "A wise old owl lived in an oak; 

The more he saw the less he spoke; 

The less he spoke the more he heard: 

Why can't we all be like that bird?" 

~

 Edward Hersey Richards

MIRROR MIRROR... OMM's MIRROR CHALLENGE...

 "The best mirror is an old friend." 

~

 George Herbert

THE STORY OF MY LIFE... SPA's FAVORITE QUOTES CHALLENGE...

 "There is a fine line 

between genius and insanity

I have erased this line.

~

Oscar Levant

THE LUCKY GOLDEN TICKET... and OUTRAGOUS FORTUNE... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's GYPSY FORTUNE TELLER CHALLENGE...

 "Every fortune-teller I ever met was a faker. 

First thing you should do to a soothsayer

 is poke them in the eye and say,

 ‘Didn’t see that coming, did you?" 

~

 Mark Lawrence

BUTTERFLY FAIRY... DIGITAL WHISPER's FAIRY CHALLENGE...

 "Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, 

clap your hands!" 

~

 J.M. Barrie

REMEMBERING OUR LOVED ONES... OMM's REMEMBERING OUR SOLDIERS...

 "It's so hard to forget pain, 

but it's even harder to remember sweetness. 

We have no scar to show for happiness. 

We learn so little from peace." 

~

 Chuck Palahniuk

TIGER STRIPES... SPA's TIGER CHALLENGE...

 Tyger Tyger burning bright,

 In the forests of the night: 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

~

William Blake

WONDERLAND TEA PARTY... DIGITAL WHISPER's TEAPOT CHALLENGE...

 "A teapot is a book carrying liquid poetry, 

and each serving brings new solace

 to the thirsty reader." 

~

 Akash Mandal

MOON INVASION... OMM's DARKSIDE OF THE MOON CHALLENGE...

 NASA spent 90 Billion dollars to see 

what was on the dark side of the moon.

and what did they find?

It's the same as the front only it's dark.

~

DSW