Happy Birthday to My Beautiful Bella Butterfly

For nine years
you have warmed my heart,
touched my life,
been my sweetheart.



For nine years now
you have made my life great,
blessed me with love,
made my heart inflate.





With you in my life,
I would like to update,
the numerous ways,
that you've been first-rate:






You create,
a better me.







You locate,
true love I can see






You narrate,
a story of joy,
a story of laughter,
a story to enjoy.





You needn't try,
you just are,
the best birthday girl,
and a BEAUTIFUL BRIGHT STAR!


Happy 9th Birthday Baby Girl,

Daddy loves you!






Beautiful Bella Butterfly
So very pretty in her daddy's eye

Flitter


Flutter


Flitter
Fly



Dancing, playing in the sky




Eyelashes made of butterfly wings

She smiles at me and makes me grin





Twirling, swirling and turning again

She blows me kisses and makes me spin


This little butterfly is a work of art

The little ways about her landing on my heart

She asks me to watch her; I don't tell her to wait

Treasuring each moment before it's too late

There is no tomorrow there's only today

As one day she'll turn, and smile, and fly away......

The Bond of a Brother

The bond of a brother
Can never be broken

Not distance, not time
No words need be spoken

When I am stressed
I think of him

I think of his words
And what he said

How much he believes in me
How high he holds me in esteem

How much he loves me
How much he gives me the strength to keep on being

There’s no greater gift
Than a brother like mine

And for his birthday
I recognize his gift to me

A bond that will last for all time

Happy Birthday Little Brother.

When I say “I love you like a brother”,

I realize how lucky I am to actually have you as one.

Dr. Seuss Was Without a Doubt

Theodore Seuss Geisel, born 103 years ago today, never won the prestigious Caldecott Medal nor the coveted Newbery Award. These are validations from the world of literature we writers seek to tell us that, without a doubt, we are good writers.

Without a doubt. Without a doubt. Without a doubt.

Soon after we are born we begin to deny our own magnificence as the world shakes its finger at us, telling us we're wrong, bad, unacceptable in some way of continuing to pursue our greatest dreams of becoming our greatest selves. I pray, really pray, that as much as I demand from my children and students a heart full of love and the inclusion of "and I see you as better than that" inspires them versus diminishes their light.

Without a doubt. Without a doubt. Without a doubt.

More than 66 books and 19 film, tv, or theater adaptations have come from Seuss' belief in himself. He was without a doubt in what he could do, or at least try to do.

Without a doubt he gave the world something wonderful.

Without a doubt he did something that has lived on after his death.

Without a doubt he has made the world a better place.....

....for me

...for my students

.........and for my children.

Thank you Dr. Seuss

And Happy Birthday!