50 Ways To Get Out Of That Funk/Just Plain Enjoy Life A Little More {via >>VeganChickie.com}
These looks AMAZING!! I’m making Chocolate Crispy Rice Squares this week (with extra maple syrup instead of honey).
A new site combining nature’s beauty and inspiring quotations, —>>ProverbialBeauty.com.
Are you listening to your intuition?
A great idea for freshening up the kitty litter box room!
Creative resumes ideas … How about a Facebook resume?
“If you give up your goals, dreams, and aliveness to be with people, you aren’t truly doing them a favor. You will in some way demand that they give up the same thing. The only way you can truly love and support others is to support their aliveness and growth, and one of the best ways to do that is to support your own aliveness and growth. Give yourself permission to do what you love and want to do.” ~ Sanaya Roman {via Divine Discovery}
I watch American Idol now that Ellen is on it. Last night, Siobhan Magnus sang ‘House of the Rising Sun’ and gave me chills…

Lost Things, a beautifully creative short stop-motion film written & directed by Ithyle Griffiths & Angela Kohler, and starring – Alison Sudol from A Fine Frenzy {via Lily and the Muse}

image: 3LambsGraphics

Photo from Heidi’s blog of art & inspiration, HH Photography

SPICY VEGGIE QUINOA RECIPE
Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 2

• 1 cup quinoa, rinsed
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 large carrots, cut into wedges
• 2 cups mushrooms, sliced
• 3 tomatoes, sliced
• 1 zucchini, sliced
• 1 red pepper, chopped
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• salt, to taste
• 1 teaspoon cayenne powder
• 3/4 teaspoon cumin
• a generous drizzle of agave
• a few sprigs of cilantro

Cook quinoa in one and a half cups of water in a pot, bringing to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer 15-20 minutes or until most of the water is absorbed.

In skillet, sauté mushrooms and zucchini in olive oil until tender.

Add carrots, tomatoes, and red pepper continuing to cook for 2-3 minutes.

Sprinkle salt, cayenne and cumin, as well as a drizzle of agave over vegetables.

Stir cooked quinoa into the veggie mixture in skillet, then add cilantro.

Spoon into bowls & bon appetit!

“I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” ~ Julia Child

image: csebastian.com

Waving the magic wand.
An AWESOME list of websites to get you inspired and fuel your fire from ChicVegan.com!
My new group, Avocado Love >>www.flickr.com/groups/avocadolove<< Come share beautiful photos and veg recipes featuring avocados!
Learning not to worry about what people think of you and being true to yourself.
Ignore the feelings part and the work will follow.
Instead of sweetening with white sugar, check out these alternatives.
Groovy fruit bowl – loops.
Moroccan Quinoa Bites & Clementine Dreamsicle Ice Cream w/ Dark Chocolate Pistachio Brownie, Orange Caramel from Julie’s Raw Ambition. Gorgeous.
“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.” – Roger Ebert

On Beauty
Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?
And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?

The aggrieved and the injured say, “Beauty is kind and gentle.
Like a young mother half-shy of her own glory she walks among us.”
And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”

The tired and the weary say, “Beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.
Her voice yields to our silences like a faint light that quivers in fear of the shadow.”
But the restless say, “We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions.”

At night the watchmen of the city say, “Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.”
And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say,
“We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset.”

In winter say the snow-bound, “She shall come with the spring leaping upon the hills.”
And in the summer heat the reapers say,
“We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves,
and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.”
All these things have you said of beauty,
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,
But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,
But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw,
But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

By Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Toast with slices of avocado drizzled in pesto. SENSATIONAL.