Donnaleigh's Tarot

"Fake friends are autumn leaves;

they are scattered everywhere."

 Unknown 

"There is nothing to writing.

All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Ernest Hemingway

"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mount

"Housework is something you do

that nobody notices u...

"If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions,

it is time for a new driver."

Jennifer Granholm

I've been thinking about honesty a lot lately.

After having been duped (I mean REALLY hoodwinked by a compulsive liar), I was left wondering what my lessons were, why there had to be dishon...

"That's what I call meditation.

You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure.

"When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot.

Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life."

Whitney Houston

"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawe...

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

James Keller

"Slap that baby on the ass and call me Christmas!"

(What Tyler exclaimed after hearing

“Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth.

Do the right thing because it is right.

These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.” 

2011 was a hard year for me.

I learned many personal lessons.

Looking back, here are some of the big 'uns I learned that I did not live fully the year before. I'm sure I'll conti...

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling

with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain.

But you have already borne the pain.

What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain....

Use it correctly and you will be rewarded...

Above, the Bohemian Gothic Tarot by Baba Studios

"In older decks of tarot cards, this card was called Fortitude, representing someone who could draw on mental resources to get through tough times....

"Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts

with next year's money."

- Unknown

"Everyone has the answers."

Robin Wright Penn

"The difference between friends and pets is that

friends we allow into our company,

pets we allow into our solitude." 

 “The road of life twists and turns

and no two directions are ever the same.

Yet our lessons come from the journey,