Birthdays
February 23, 2012
1685 George Frederick Handel
1734 Mayer Amchel Rothschild
1883 Victor Fleming
1937 Lt-Cdr Brian Mills
1939 Peter Fonda
1947 Anton Mosimann
1952 Brad Whitford
1955 Howard Jones

Leaders

Joy riding! Bernie Baird-Browning drives the golf-cart for a video shoot at her Malibu cottage.

Joy riding! Bernie Baird-Browning drives the golf-cart for a video shoot at her Malibu cottage.

You step into another world at Small Wonders, the amazing educational toy store on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Rolling Hills, California. The place is a work of art that’s a world of toys, as unique and spirit-lifting as its owner and creator, Bernice Baird-Browning, who discovers fun treasures from merchants all over the world.

Up near the ceiling, a colorful miniature train chugs along on a wooden railroad that somehow winds around or tunnels through every item in the store’s densely-stocked alcoves.
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Every inch of every shelf is brimming with uniqueness and quality. Puppets and marionettes from faraway places smile at you as you pass by. You see boxes full of wooden trains and miniature construction sets from Scandinavia. And from Germany, kits for building colorful fire engines and taxis, or grand cathedrals and skyscrapers. Musical instruments and finely carved pull toys come from Poland, Italy, and Czechoslovakia. Delicate French dolls beg to be pampered and primped, but they’re tomboyish enough to be bathed in a washing machine!

Bernie married a doctor before the age of 20, and raised two brilliant kids who’ve launched successful careers of their own. So she’s also a grandmother-made-in-heaven! Can you imagine the thrill of dashing over the meadow and through the woods to such an enchanting place?

And just as in a fairy-tale, Bernie met—or rather re-met—her current husband Ralph Browning at a high-school reunion in the late 1990s, and they’re living, traveling, and prospering happily ever after!

The source of Bernie’s passion for joy and fun and letting kids learn as they play might come from having started school in first grade. She longed for kindergarten ever since, so maybe skipping it was the twist of fate that led to the blessing Small Wonders is to the world. There, where everything has been so carefully searched, selected, and displayed by a mother, grandmother, businesswoman, and grownup kindergartener, you’ll find yourself warmly embraced in quality, charm, and just plain fun.

Fun, in fact, sums up Bernie Baird-Browning in a word.

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 Ron Dunham is an enormously successful man: father, husband, creator of both spiritual and financial wealth… and a survivor of a near-death-experience. He’s the author of the following message. And under this message, you’ll find video of Ron talking, among other things, about his extraordinary visit to “the other side.”

YOU HAVE FOUND YOURSELF

YOUR SOUL IS ALIGNED

YOUR SPIRIT IS FREE

YOUR MIND IS OPEN

YOUR HEART IS FULL

YOUR END IS YOUR BEGINNING

YOUR LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL

YOU ARE FULLY SELF EXPRESSED

YOUR CHILD IS ALIVE

YOUR CREATOR IS BEFORE YOU

GRACE IS FLOWING THROUGH YOU

COURAGE IS YOUR HONOR

FULFILLMENT IS YOUR DESTINY

LIGHT IS THE ORDER OF YOUR DAY

LAUGHTER IS THE VOICE OF YOUR HEART

KINDNESS IS THE MOTHER OF YOUR EXISTENCE

COMPASSION IS THE QUIETNESS OF YOUR THOUGHTS

YOU ARE THE ONE AND THE MANY

YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED FORTH AND ANSWERED

WE THANK YOU FOR BLAZING THE PATH

WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

 

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After a very successful career as a veterinarian with charisma and intuition his four-legged clients couldn’t resist, Herb Tanzer was tapped by major TV networks in New York to host a show about animal care. Instead, he became a life coach. Herb wants, and actually creates, a world that works for everybody. Now he lives for doing whatever he can to let you, help you, and show you how to be the cause of a life your unique brilliance deserves. Like no other coach, Herb Tanzer brings a broad understanding of spirtuality to the mundane task of everyday success strategy. Herb’s web site.

Herb dares you to dream:

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