Floods in Bosnia! The largest in last 120 years! (constantly updated!!!).
Please friends consider helping my country in this time of distress. Every little bit helps, a dollar, 5 or 10. Please keep Bosnia in your prayers. This is where you can make donations:
http://www.gofundme.com/98iwck
Thank you!
Sibella
I don’t know about you, but I always feel that I am too busy to stop and take a break and “smell the roses”. Recently, a friend advised me (instead of rushing through my work week and desperately waiting for the weekend) to take at least a few minutes out of each day to look for and enjoy the beauty that surrounds us and to which we are often blind. Enjoy the small moments and make every day count!
Today, I was thinking how I have to finish this and that and how the weekend is not nearly long enough to complete everything I planed, when I remembered my friend’s words: “Go out there and find beauty!” So I did:
Hello friends! I hope everyone had a great start into the New Year. I think of this year as a year of changes and improvements.
My first resolution is to focus more on spiritual as opposed to material. I plan to spend more time doing things I love, things that make me and people around me happy. Inspired by my friend Korena’s post The List, here is what I plan to bake, make and do this year (and not necessarily in this order):
Hungarian Dobos Torte or here
Vacherin framboise et chocolat √
Croissants from the The Bourke Street Bakery, AU √
Baguette from the Bourke Street Bakery
Traditional Bosnian corn bread
Bosnian Begova Corba (or Bey’s Soup)
Reproduce a master painter piece or this one
Make a child portrait in pastel
Improve my watercolor skills
Paint a large scale painting or a mural
Travel here and here (very possible)
Travel here, here or here (dreaming about)
Explore my surroundings,
et cetera…
I would be happy to hear about your plans! 🙂
Love to you all!
Sibella
Hi friends, I just thought I’d share with you a photo I took this morning on my way to work.
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In a world saturated with negativity, bad news and wrong values, a person really has to stop, look around and remember what really counts. Wishing you all a great week filled with Love and Peace!
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Every time I spend an entire day inside, my mood changes from good to worse. I feel like I’ve missed something, like life is somehow moving without me. Today was starting to be one of those days. The weather was fairly warm for the late November, but the day was gray and it seemed as it will start raining any minute. Our dogs were eager to go out, I could just see it in their pretty eyes and in their postures.
So, we (my children and I) decided to go out for a walk in the park and along the river. Oh, how beautiful this late Fall day turned out to be. It still was gray and cloudy, but just being outdoors, breathing the fresh air, watching the Fall fading and Winter taking over, seeing our dogs genuine, unrestricted happiness, it made a whole difference. A splash of positive energy just came over me and I thought how I often forget to enjoy and appreciate little things… Life is good! Thank you God!
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