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FirstLight

(13,360 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 04:41 PM Jan 2012

A B-Day party for MorningGlow!!! wheee!

Last edited Mon Jan 2, 2012, 06:13 PM - Edit history (1)

In keeping with our tradition of Bday threads, I thought I'd start this one for my sweet 'spirit-twin'...miss Morning Glow!



Poem: Lessons from a Dragonfly

A dragonfly accepts it’s brevity of life
With its gossamer wings feeling the breeze
Full of freedom it watches our joy and our strife
Its wisdom learned flitting from water to air to trees
With wings that shimmer showing purpose and duty
Obedient to all of life’s changes in flight
Modestly it shows us its outer beauty
Always gracious, mindful and full of delight
So whether what life gives you is good, bad, or sad
Show others that inner beauty counts and matters
Make your actions amount to many smiles and be glad
For the dragonfly knows it lives a brief life this way
So I learn from this creature to live wisely each day
And make every minute special to those that you love
As the dragonfly watches our actions from above

~Ruth O'Neill

note: A dragonfly can spend up to several years underwater until it is strong enough to surface, shed its skin and evolve into this beautiful creature. Then it flies free among us but only for a very brief period of up to 2 months before it dies.
So I guess your cycle to watch for things coming to fruition has to do with that 2 month timeframe...?

Have a wonderful Year, hunny!

oh, and BTW, that picture looks like it is for sale, cool original art...

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A B-Day party for MorningGlow!!! wheee! (Original Post) FirstLight Jan 2012 OP
Have kimmerspixelated Jan 2012 #1
Why, thank you, kimmers! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #7
Happy Birthday, laylah Jan 2012 #2
Thank you, Laylah! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #8
Happy Birthday Morning Glow!!!! Howler Jan 2012 #3
Thank you, Howler! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #9
No Worries about...... Howler Jan 2012 #12
From your fingers to the Goddess' ears, my dear Howler! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #15
:) Howler Jan 2012 #18
Ummmmmmmmm CLEAN UP ON AISLE THREE PLEASE! Howler Jan 2012 #17
!!! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #23
HAPPY HAPPY Rainbow Sunrise Jan 2012 #4
Thank you thank you, RS! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #10
YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! Howler Jan 2012 #13
Happy birthday. Morning Glory!! Ecumenist Jan 2012 #5
Aw, thank you, Ecumenist! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #11
Heyyyyyyy! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #6
Happy birthday MorningGlow! Cleita Jan 2012 #14
Thanks so much, Cleita! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #16
Happy birthday, MG! LiberalEsto Jan 2012 #19
Thank you, LE! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #20
Happy Birthday, MG!! WolverineDG Jan 2012 #21
Thank you, WolverineDG! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #24
Happy Birthday, MG! And a belated Happy Birthday to you, FL! Mnemosyne Jan 2012 #22
Thank you, Mnemosyne! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #25
I hope it was a good one! Happy New Year to you! Mnemosyne Jan 2012 #45
awww...thanks! FirstLight Jan 2012 #31
Hope it was good! And a very happy new year to you! Mnemosyne Jan 2012 #44
May all your birthday dreams come true, MG! japple Jan 2012 #26
Thank you, Japple! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #32
Happy Birthday, Morning Glow Sanity Claws Jan 2012 #27
Thank you, SC! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #33
Happy Happy Birthday MorningGlow!!!1! kentauros Jan 2012 #28
Thanks, K! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #34
Happy Birthday MG!!!! Sweet Freedom Jan 2012 #29
Thank you kindly, SF! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #35
Oh Happy Birthday Morning Glow! Tumbulu Jan 2012 #30
Thank you, Tumbulu! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #36
And yet another birthday wish for you, MG! OneGrassRoot Jan 2012 #37
Thank you, OGR! MorningGlow Jan 2012 #38
Happy birthday!!!! get the red out Jan 2012 #39
Tried to post this on fb but post computer crash can't seem to post there. . . will straighten out stellanoir Jan 2012 #40
Belated happy birthday! PADemD Jan 2012 #41
Happy Belated Birthday MorningGlow!!!!!!!! glinda Jan 2012 #42
Happy Birthday rbnyc Jan 2012 #43
a very late birthday greeting to Celebration Jan 2012 #46

Howler

(4,225 posts)
3. Happy Birthday Morning Glow!!!!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 06:49 PM
Jan 2012

Here is your b-day forecast

http://www.dailyhoroscopes.com/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,483/year,2012/month,01/day,02/Itemid,4/


Life seems a little too quiet today. Perhaps it is just taking some people a little more time to get into the swing of a work routine after the holidays. Be patient and your day will eventually return to a pattern or routine that you like. Your mind, body and attitude are refreshed and ready to achieve. Ambition, practicality and achievement are admirable and what this first day back at work is all about. You yearn for the stimulation of new ideas and may decide to put in a request for some work spot that you would like to experience. You will be pleased to find that a special event is planned for you tonight. A new experience is headed your way. If you don't have your camera with you, take the opportunity to purchase a throw-away one. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

http://www.dailyhoroscopes.com/component/option,com_events/task,view_detail/agid,493/year,2012/month,01/day,02/Itemid,4/


If you are looking for a job, all this week is a positive time to present yourself to a future employer. Get your resume updated and printed professionally whether you are looking or not; it is good to have it on file. Your energy is high! You feel vital--you feel good--you feel in harmony with yourself, the entire world and everybody in it. Others can feel this, so they in turn are drawn to you, making this a successful day for any kind of group endeavor. Best of all, relations with a mate or loved one are at a peak. Any time this month is good for repairs or cleansing of the body. The window-of-time on any sort of healing happens now. Treatments that are medicinal or therapeutic will be very positive now and in the near future.

MorningGlow

(15,758 posts)
9. Thank you, Howler!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 07:24 PM
Jan 2012

Those seem very accurate to me! (Except for the special event. None o' that, I'm afraid, except for the takeout Thai food--haven't had that in ages--but that's okay.)

As for the upcoming week, it's time for MORE QUERIES to agents. Fingers crossed. I'm getting this novel published, dammit!

Thanks again!

Howler

(4,225 posts)
12. No Worries about......
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:06 PM
Jan 2012

" I'm getting this novel published, dammit!" MorningGlow.
I really feel That your novel will picked up by april though It feels more solid and tangiable in March to me!

When I buy it I want my copy signed You beautiful Authress you!!!

MorningGlow

(15,758 posts)
15. From your fingers to the Goddess' ears, my dear Howler!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:20 PM
Jan 2012

March would work for me!

For you, free signed copy!

Howler

(4,225 posts)
17. Ummmmmmmmm CLEAN UP ON AISLE THREE PLEASE!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:25 PM
Jan 2012

SPELLCHECK!!!!!!!!
"They Killed Kenny!!!!! The Bastards!!!!!" LOL!

No seriously...... SPELLCHECK!!!!!!!

Rainbow Sunrise

(39 posts)
4. HAPPY HAPPY
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 07:01 PM
Jan 2012

BIRTHDAY MORNINGGLOW!!! YOU ROCK!!! cheers to ya!!!

May you receive everything you need and want this year.




And, I love that poem, First Light. I always loved gragonflies and butterflies....and...ur...rainbows too of course.

Howler

(4,225 posts)
13. YAYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 08:08 PM
Jan 2012

A Rainbow Sunrise!!!!!! I hope to see lottsa around here!!!!!
That was a perfectly beautiful way to start this New Years!
The force is strong with that poster!!!

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
5. Happy birthday. Morning Glory!!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 07:11 PM
Jan 2012

Yet another sweet January Girl!! May you have another 1000 years of life love and happiness!!

MorningGlow

(15,758 posts)
6. Heyyyyyyy!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 07:19 PM
Jan 2012

Thank SO much, twin! Lovely artwork and wonderful poem AND great dragonfly info. I never knew that they can live underwater, especially for that long. That really spoke to me--I've felt like I've been living underwater, hiding out, taking a break from the world, for a long time too. Hoping it's time to fly free soon--but I do NOT plan on dying after two months!

Here's to 2012 for all of us!

kentauros

(29,414 posts)
28. Happy Happy Birthday MorningGlow!!!1!
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 10:09 PM
Jan 2012

Hope you had/are having/ will have a great birthday and PARTAY!!!11!

stellanoir

(14,881 posts)
40. Tried to post this on fb but post computer crash can't seem to post there. . . will straighten out
Tue Jan 3, 2012, 12:40 PM
Jan 2012

ASAP

Sorry I missed wishing you a great day earlier. Have been out of sorts of late. Hope you had a great day with oodles of sorts. That's a really peculiar expression. yet to me, sorts = options. Always better to have options though than to wrongly think that there are none.

Will do your solar return if you so desire.

There's no way you could possibly have anything less than an extraordinary year, given how focused you've been on 2012. IMHO

better & better I swear.

great love & appreciation for your spunk, humor, and darling bright eyes

loved your "mischief managed" post on Christmas morn.

It was the funniest moment of the day so thanks. It sustained me.

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