“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you” — Langston Hughes
Lost in the Desert
Image: Camel with water jug and person with ribs showing and empty jug. Tip: Best not call a camel haughty when lost in the desert
Bubble
Image: Person with bird on head blowing a bubble. Wing Tip: It is a far far better thing to blow a bubble than to live inside one.
Laughter
Wingtip: Fresh laughter is best but keep canned close for a stark night. Image:Sad guy holding a jar of laughing faces.
Snarling
Wing Tip: Snarling well takes practice. Twice in the morning. Once at night. Image: Person snarling looking in a handheld mirror.
Pouts
Early Bird
Wingtip: Sometimes an early bird has to forget the worm and go back to sleep. Image: Bird with sleepy eyes, red beck and red tuft sitting on a cot-like perch. Behind here a partial oval window through which are stars. Next to the cot is a jar labeled seeds.
Temper Tantrums
Muse
Red Guitar
Unusual Friendships
Touch a LIfe
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Out of Muck
Life
Art in Vision
Stew
Wing Tip: If a black cloud rains in your pot, add what you’ve got and stir. Image: Black raindrops falling from a black cloud into a pot. A person pours red dots from a pitcher into the pot and stirs. Bird with chef’s hat pointing to a red dot.
Volcano
Sleep-walking
Marbles
Bad Luck
Tears
Wing Tip: Desalinate tears. Grow a garden. Image: Person crying. Bird catching tears and watering a garden.
Framer
Other Fish
Friend Narcissus
Being Used
Wing Tip: If you feel you’re being used, don’t go. Image: Cow, looking with skepticism, at person barbecuing beef.
Toss Secrets
Inner Chicken
Down and Low
Woodpeckers
Too Much Salt
Skeptical
Wingtip: Some days it’s best to be skeptical. Image: Woman with apple on her head looks at an arrow pointed towards that apple.
Mamas
Wingtip: Mama don’t let your babies be puppets. Image of mother with three small children looking askance at puppeteer’s strings.
Get Up and Move
Wing Tip: You might want to get up and move. Image: Woman in an easy chair oblivious to boulder about to be pushed off a cliff on to her. Bird frantically warning her.
Communication Skills
Sea of Regrets
Chicken Little
Stacked Cards
Crossing Fingers
Wing Tip: Wise women know crossing ones fingers does not work every day of the week.
Clean Your Ears
Breaking Rules
Steer Clear
Wing Tip: Steer Clear of Calculating Swine. Image: Bicyclist avoiding pig with a calculator.
Bored?
Pass the Dip
Don’t Blow Kisses
Wing Tip: Don’t blow kisses in a wind storm. Image:Person spinning around in windstorm. Kisses flying all over
Family Tree
Still Stinks
Wing Tip: You can turn your back but if it stinks it stinks. Image: Woman with back turned to squirting skunk.
Caterpillar Promises
Bull’s Eye
Wing Tip: Sometimes hitting a bull’s eye is not the best course of action.
Ruined Coffee
Perspective
Wing Tip. Someone needs a different perspective. Listening to the point of view of others.