Friday's Photo's - Herb Bouquets

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I love the look and smell of fresh herbs stored in a vase of water on my kitchen counter, waiting to be plucked out and used to make something taste better! Happy Friday!!
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(Photos Via &Via & Via & Jupiter Images)

Is White A Color?

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The answers are many and conflicting.
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It depends upon whom you ask. Scientists consider black to be the absence of color and white to be the presence of all colors. Fine artists, on the other hand, believe the complete reverse: white is the absence of color.
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I asked my three youngest children if white was a color and my 7 year old son just pointed to a cloud and said with complete confidence, "There it is."
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Whatever the case - I love the "COLOR" white!!
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(Photos Courtesy of Jupiter Images and Zappos)----{A Re-Post From 4/30/08}

Mid-Week Pause - Reflection

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"I am not afraid of storms, for I have learned how to sail my ship." Louisa May Alcott ~

(Photo Via Jupiter Images)

Love Makes A Family - ♥ Duh!

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With all the "joyous" weddings going on in New York { } I thought I'd re-post this.
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♥ I would love to get this wonderful traveling display of photos presented at my children's school. We are fortunate to live in a very open community and my children attend a progressive school with an open mind and heart.
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♥ Respect, tolerance and kindness are things we hold in very high regard.
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♥ By educating people of all ages to recognize, support, and celebrate the full range of diversity helps reduce prejudice, stereotyping, and harassment of all people who are perceived to be "different" from the "norm."
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Love Makes a Family is a museum-quality traveling exhibit including photographs and interviews with families that have lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) members. Through first-person accounts and positive images, this exhibit seeks to challenge and change damaging myths and stereotypes about LGBT people and their families. At the most basic level, Love Makes A Family combats homophobia by breaking silence and making the invisible visible. By encouraging people of all ages - beginning in early childhood - to affirm and appreciate diversity, this traveling rental exhibit contributes to the process of dismantling the destructive power of prejudice and intolerance, thereby making the world a safer place for all families.
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♥ Designed for audiences of all ages.
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Elsasser-Robinson Family

"Our family life is a very traditional American one - early morning getting up, eating breakfast, getting dressed, making sure everyone has matching socks, getting the boys off to school, and then going to work. At night, it's homework and getting ready for bed. Michael and I have been class parents in Zach's and Justin's classes every single year. We could not imagine living without children. It's a wonderful experience to watch our boys develop and mature."

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Galluccio Family

This is the story of Jon and Michael Galluccio, two gay men living in New Jersey, who become foster parents to Adam, a premature baby born with AIDS virus and addicted to crack, heroin, marijuana and alcohol. While nursing Adam through the many medical emergencies of his first year and surviving the daily dramas that all new parents go through, they realize that this child, their son now, could be taken back from them at any time by the state, and they decide to try to legally adopt him._