Tolerance is the Highest Degree of your Strength,
And desire to take Revenge is the First Sign of Weakness…

~Unknown

The garden is where you take the time in your life to tune in and listen.
It just takes being still long enough, opening your heart, opening
your spirit up to what the plants have to tell you.

~Gabriel Howearth

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AP, 09/08/2014 12:48 am EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Molly Glynn, an accomplished Chicago theater actress who also played a recurring role as a doctor on the TV series “Chicago Fire,” has died after a tree toppled by a powerful storm struck her as she rode her bike in a forest park. She was 46.

Glynn was with her husband, Joe Foust, when the storm rolled quickly into the area, just north of Chicago, the executive director of First Folio Theatre and a close family friend, David Rice, said Sunday.

“Molly was one of the most loving and generous people in the Chicago theater scene,” he said. “She was incredibly talented — incredibly versatile. She could handle both comedy and the deepest darkest, dramas.”

Glynn’s husband called 911 just before 4 p.m. on Friday to say his wife had been injured, Cook County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said. NorthShore Evanston Hospital spokeswoman Colette Urban confirmed Glynn died Saturday.

Glynn had an audition earlier in the day Friday and she and her husband had decided to go for a ride. The inclement weather took them by surprise and the tree slammed into Glynn as the couple sought to ride to safety, Rice said.
“It was a freak accident and a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.

Others in the theater community in and around Chicago also expressed shock and sadness.

“It is an incalculable loss,” said Michael Halberstam, the artistic director of the Glencoe-based Writers Theatre. “She was a loving mother and wife and everyone who met her fell in love with her.”

Glynn grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, Rice said. In addition to her husband, she is also survived by two teenage sons.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure;
but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ~Joseph Addison

Your deepest roots are in nature.  No matter who you are, where you live,
or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked
with the rest of creation.  ~Charles Cook

Sunrise at Angkor Wat, Cambodia

Too many people today are stuck in the past, or dwell on the future. Both of these just waste your time, not letting you live in the moment. Whether you’ve been through a difficult time or see the past as “the good old’ days”, this article shows you how to just move on in general.

Past

1. Motivate yourself to quit looking back. The only way to move forward is to face forward.

2. Think about your road of life. If you’re always looking in the rear-view mirror, do you know where you’re going on a curvy road?

3. Know that ‘better things’ are ahead, even if the precise nature of these things is hard to predict.

4. Don’t be discouraged. Sometimes, people will shove you out, or you will somehow be forced out of that past. That’s the door of the past slamming in your face telling you desperately to move on.

Future

1. Stop and think. Can you really control the future?

2. Nothing happens by accident. Also worded as “everything happens for a reason.” So why should you doubt? What happens, happens.

3. That bigger and better door isn’t ready for you to burst through just yet. Don’t be the child taking on the adult. You haven’t grown in the present all the way.

Now

Enjoy it! There’s only going to be one day like the one you are living today. Each day is precious, and as you grow, time just goes faster. You never know when you will pass away, so live each day to the fullest.

Source: wikiHow

I arise today
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun,
Radiance of moon,
Splendour of fire.
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of wind,
Depth of sea,
Stability of earth,
Firmness of rock.

~Saint Patrick

The platypus has both baffled and inspired the scientific community since its discovery by Europeans over 200 years ago. Award winning wildlife film maker David Parer takes us down the east coast of Australia to the many serenely beautiful habitats of the platypus.

A DNA study found the creatures to be a mix of mammal, bird and reptile with, even more strangely, 10 sex chromosomes.

As one of the few venomous mammals on Earth, a platypus uses venom in the spur of its hind foot to fight and kill their prey. Source: Sharenator

Respect everyone and earn the respect of others. Respect your friends, your family, and your lovers by validating their opinions and experiences. Try to understand them deeply, on a personal level. Ask them questions, have long discussions, and open your heart. Understand that the other person has their own wishes and desires, and rights to privacy and dignity. If you can’t allow this for another person, then you can’t love them. ~wikiHow

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