Joy Abounds

"If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of you like sun beams and you will always look lovely"- Roald Dahl

Good Morning Sunshine

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

America The Beautiful

lyrics by Katherine Lee Bates

Oh beautiful for spacious skies

For amber waves of grain

For purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed his grace on thee

and crown thy good with brotherhood

from sea to shining sea!

Oh beautiful for pilgrim feet

whose stern impassioned stress

A thoroughfare of freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America!

God mend thy every flaw!

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law!

Oh beautiful for heroes proved!

In liberating strife

who more than self their country loved

and mercy more than life!

America! America!

May God thy gold refine

Till all success be nobleness

and every gain divine!

Oh beautiful for patriot dream!

that sees beyond the years

thine alabaster cities gleam

                                                                                                    yes! those are real elks roaming around!

undimmed by human tears

America! America!

God shed his grace on thee!

and crown thy good with brotherhood

from sea to shining sea