Dona Nobis Pacem - Grant Us Peace 2013

Forgive me for another late participation in BlogBlast for Peace this year. 

But life has been speeding up like a roller coaster... 

So, here I am late again. 

In case you don't know about BlogBlast for Peace yet, I'm giving a shout-out about our wonderful movement of Bloggers hosted by Mimi Lenox on every 4th November to encourage peace through blogging. 

Over the years even more and more people have joined this event by sharing inspiring posts and images all over the world, and it now has been expanded to other social medias like Facebook or Twitter. Seeing them can be eye opening and transfers a lot of positive energy, so you might want to check it out. And, may be you'll even decide to join.

This is my fifth participation in BlogBlast for Peace, since the first time in 2009. This year I decided to share an anonymous quote on a background from xdesktopwallpapers.

Our blindness don't let us see the light that shines from our hearts, making us already whole and complete. We must feel it, so that it can lighten up our world."

Because, I truly hope people don't mind to open up their hearts and refuse of walking around "blind" in this world. Only believing what might just be a mirage to the eye, without realizing what lies more beneath. I believe that if we all just could see the light in our and other's hearts it would be another blissful eye opener.  There would be less misunderstanding plus more loving and caring. The world would lighten up indeed.

Not to forget Satish Kumar's moving quote that I have been sharing for three straight years now, because it speaks so much volume to me:

Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe." 

It feels like a beautiful prayer to express my beliefs on hope, love and trust being engraved in the core of every human soul. A wish to experience a world full of joy, warmth and togetherness. Without prejudice on color, religion, or other subjectivity.

Let there be peace on earth. 

Let it start with you and me.

Vote for Peace.
It's worth to try.  Join us in one love.  

Thanks to Mimi Lenox

"If words are powerful...then this matters.
One subject. One day. One voice"

Good Morning Quote

Another day, another new week... You may not feel the best at the moment, but let me greet you with a lovely Good Morning quote. Cause, one needs some spirit to go on with life.

Life is too short to start your day with broken pieces of yesterday. It will definitely destroy your wonderful today and ruin your great tomorrow.  ~Author Unknown 

At the bottom point of some days, I know that it's hard to hang on this thought, but that's actually the absolutely truth. Don't let your own mind and soul play games with you. Get into some positive activities that give you no time to grumble on negativity. Release it from your system.

Seek for happiness in faith, family, social activities... Once you start with something that is able to keep you focus on other things and occupy the mind, you'll see that life might not be so miserable after all.

The glue of a broken heart is various for people. But, there's one thing in common...

The turning point. A moment, a thought...when you can be honest to yourself and say, "Enough is enough! It's time to get up and move on."

Believe it or not, the key of peace and happiness doesn't depend on other people or certain situations. It is yourself that carries the most all along. You can reach for it by having some faith in God... faith of yourself... Faith to live life at the fullest, instead of paddling back.

Don't sabotage yourself by doing otherwise, and I promise you'll come to a point where all has been settled for good. It may need some time, but you'll definitely get there.

So, please lighten up. Embrace this lovely Good Morning quote. Start by loving yourself more than anything that caused you feeling down. Make this a wonderful today and walk into the direction of a great tomorrow.

Music is expression of harmony in sound.

Love is the expression of harmony in life

~Stephen F. Gaskin

Keep a song in your heart.

An Error Occurred while Trying to Save or Publish your Post

Since yesterday afternoon, I started to get this annoying messages, while working on my posts:

An error occurred while trying to save or publish your post. Please try again. Ignore warning.

I tried to ignore the warning without success and then began to try save my post instead... Also, without any success. 

Then I thought it would be good to sign out of my account and sign in again. But, nope... That wasn't the answer either. As matter of fact, I noticed that there were 40 drafts of the post in my dashboard. A number that I assume is related to the frequency I attempted to save the post.

I tried to publish the post again, seemingly without results... So, I googled for answers and tried to clear browsing data as suggested. Still, no good at all.

The right fix that finally worked for me was going back to my blog's dashboard home after pushing the publish button anyway. Then, I hovered the cursor on my blog name at the top right corner of edit page and accessed it.

Turns out that my post was published all along without me knowing, because this bug prevented my edit page to go back onto my blog's posts dashboard like the usual.

Hopefully you can also fix this error the same way. Well, it's actually not a fix. But, certainly can be defined as a solution. At least for me. 

Music is expression of harmony in sound.

Love is the expression of harmony in life

~Stephen F. Gaskin

Keep a song in your heart.

Blog Makeover: What Is Pinterest?

Okay, I got to admit that having been away for too long from the Blogosphere, I had no idea about "What is Pinterest?"

This is what I noticed so far. It is a social media where people can collect and share their favorite articles, events, hobbies, videos etc. by pinning some images on a certain Pinterest wall or board organized by topics.

Now, what is meant by pinning? The Pinterest team says on their website:

A pin starts with an image or video you add to Pinterest. You can add a pin from a website using the Pin It bookmarklet or upload an image right from your computer. Any pin on Pinterest can be repinned, and all pins link back to their source.

I guess basically this social media works around images with a certain mechanism through their bookmarklet tool, unless you upload the image right onto your Pinterest board. Please, correct me if I'm wrong... cause I'm still learning here.

Anyway, the main reason I'm talking about "What is Pinterest?" relates to my intentions of a blog makeover. I've been away for so long that I realized there are quite some changes in the way people are blogging.

Blogs are looking different now. There are pin it buttons, responsive templates that adapt to different browsers to give the viewer a better experience, the layout and fonts seemed to become larger. That's way I think I really need a new, refreshing look...

A blog makeover with a Pinterest button. Despite of the fact, I may or may not join this social media. I have been on a hiatus for many reasons... One of them limited time, because I need to focus on certain matters. But, I miss blogging... and since things have slowed down. I'm getting myself more "me time" again.

Music is expression of harmony in sound.

Love is the expression of harmony in life

~Stephen F. Gaskin

Keep a song in your heart.

Refferer Spam Blacklist & How to Deal with It

Okay. When you have landed on this post, you probably have the same problem with me. 

Last night, I just decided to start blogging again after a long time and the next day... the very first thing that I saw is something odd in my blog stats. The new post that I published had received several visits from a certain referrer site, which I won't name here.

Anyway, since the nature of its name and the high frequency of occurrence on my blog made me feel uneasy... I decided to do some research on Google about it...and, voila... The results were nothing that I hoped for.

This so called site appeared in many articles that called it as a "refferer spam". From what I have read, I came to the conclusion that in the case of blogging, this term basically describes an act that gives you the impression of an amount of visits to your blog that are actually not present. These refferer spammers might have a link occurring in your blog stats that you better just ignore. Don't click it out of curiosity.

Here's a good advice that is supported by other statements on the internet, especially if you are using the Blogger platform:

Use Google Analytics instead of Blogger Stats. Blogger Stats isn’t an accurate count of your blog stats, it includes visits from bots such as those that crawl your site to create an index for search engines, spam bots and other automated programs. ~Source: http://xomisse.com/blog/prevent-referrer-spam-links

After reading this I checked my blog's Google Analytics dashboard about incoming traffic sources, and thankfully there were really no signs of the same refferer spam. Webmaster Tools also didn't state anything about recent critical issues. Hopefully it stays this way and the problem will resolve by itself. That's why for now I consider this case closed. Remember: Avoid clicking on any spam links.

Music is expression of harmony in sound.

Love is the expression of harmony in life

~Stephen F. Gaskin

Keep a song in your heart.

Quote about Pain & Growth

This blog has been sleeping for quite a long while...

There has been a lot of going on in life...and, still is...
But, I guess anyone can actually relate well to these feelings...
Because dealing with certain matters is after all a part of daily life...

These past years I have been facing many painful losses...
Gratefully... I can now say that it helped me to grow and become more mature.

The following quote by C. JoyBell C. on Goodreads is a beautiful and refreshing representation of the pain & growth in my heart:

“Pain is [...] something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. [...] But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”

Music is expression of harmony in sound.

Love is the expression of harmony in life

~Stephen F. Gaskin

Keep a song in your heart.