Carol Ann Ramsay Celebrant

26/07/2024

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22/07/2024

Wonderful. Thanks Barbara ❤️🌈🙏💜💜

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Written by a 90 year old!!❤️
🤙42 lessons life taught me 💖
It is something we should all read at least once a week! Make sure you read to the end!
Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio.
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 42 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short – enjoy it..
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. Save for retirement starting with your first pay check.
9. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
10. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
11. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
12. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
13. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it...
14 Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
15. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.
16. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
17. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.
18. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
19. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
20. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
21. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.💖
22. The most important s*x organ is the brain.
23. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
24. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
25. Always choose life.
26. Forgive but don’t forget.
27. What other people think of you is none of your business.
28. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
29. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
30. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does..
31. Believe in miracles.
32. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
33. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
34. Your children get only one childhood.
35. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
36. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere. (I love this one)
37. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
38. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have not what you need.
39. The best is yet to come...
40. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
41. Yield.
42. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

14/07/2024

A beautiful, sunny day on Friday, in the gorgeous setting at Gleddoch House ,for the wedding of the lovely Sandie and Scott

Another unexpected outing for my sun hat and factor 50 sun cream 😎- no photos of that or the happy couple as yet. But lovely to see my hometown in all its beauty from the other side of the river.

Wishing you both every happiness. It was an absolute privilege 🙏🌈❤️

30/06/2024

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What is Who are we? Who are our people? What do we do? What is our ethos? Why do we do what we do?

We are delighted to announce we now have our own Celebrate People blog where we will be sharing stories about our work.
You will be able to hear from all of our and what it is we actually do.

To launch, our founders Susan & Gerrie Douglas-Scott - Humanist Weddings and Funerals in Scotland have written a piece on Celebrate People.

Please do subscribe (it is free!) and share with your family and friends. This is a new venture for us and we’re very excited about it!



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24/06/2024

What a fantastic day with the lovely Irene and Kevin on Saturday, in Bishopbriggs, .It was a real privilege to do this wedding. We had a similar cast to two years ago (and three years ago )at Paula’s wedding ( it was a Covid wedding so we had two ceremonies!) but with people taking different roles 😍This time Paula was the maid of honour, and Irene was the bride and not mother of the bride 🥰

My good friend Gerry was the best man ( and what a speech he gave ) and the lovely Kevin, the groom. But, everyone agreed , the real star of the show was Stevi Mae the beautiful wee flower girl who was an absolute superstar. I hear she lasted all night !

And of course, remembering young Kevin who was certainly there in the hearts of all 🙏🌈❤️

And some of the photos, courtesy of Alan McCormack photography

24/06/2024

What a stunning setting on Tuesday up at Crear Weddings, Kilberry, Tarbert, for a most beautiful day with my two beautiful brides, Seonaid and Neneh.

Our wonderful organisation, has our lovely people , front and centre and this wedding was a gorgeous example of the couple’s traditions and cultures being at the heart of things.

A mixture of Scottish and Greek traditions with a water blessing from a Quaich; a handfasting ; the Stefana to crown our lovely couple by Neneh’ s mum and then a x3 round the marriage certificate table to mirror her Greek Orthodox tradition. And this time when the sun shone and we could be out in the beautiful setting, I had a reasonable sun hat 😊

Wishing you both every happiness. Thanks for letting me be part of it. An absolute privilege🌈🙏❤️❤️💜

24/06/2024

What a privilege it is to be able to conduct these wonderful ceremonies. 💜🌈🙏I’m just catching up with myself. Just before I went travelling, we were down in Wales for the hand fasting of our good friends, the lovely Jude and David, in their garden.It’s the first time I’ve had Douglas, my own hubby in attendance . . We had Chloe, David’s daughter doing the handfasting; young Theo doing a sterling job escorting Jude to David’s side, Welsh love spoons, the most amazing wedding cake and it was so sunny, I had to wear the only sun hat I had with me. It was a gorgeous day. Thank you for letting me be part of your day and wishing you both every happiness for the future ❤️🌈🌈🙏❤️❤️

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23/06/2024

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Why Not?

If death is inevitable, if it is a sure
thing that this face, these hands,
this body that holds a lifetime of this living,
will, someday, no longer be here,
if you don't get to take a single thing with you—

then

why spend a moment more refusing,
worrying about who might disapprove,
measuring every move
as if there is some fixed formula you must
find? Why hold tight to anything?

Why not, instead, love every honeyed drop of yourself,
why not leap into life—belly-laughing
and light, light like the soft kiss of moonlight,
light like the light that you are,
have always been, will always be—

why not take this quickly passing day
by the hand and dance
like there's no tomorrow? And if you're too tired
to dance, why not rest lightly here
just as you are?
~ Julia Fehrenbacher

Art 'Firefly' by Jimmy Lawlor

02/12/2023

💜🌈🙏we are, for sure 🙏💜

We are carried…. Poem by Sara Rian

30/11/2023

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“Oh do you have time
to linger
for just a little while
out of your busy

and very important day
for the goldfinches
that have gathered
in a field of thistles

for a musical battle,
to see who can sing
the highest note,
or the lowest,

or the most expressive of mirth,
or the most tender?
Their strong, blunt beaks
drink the air

as they strive
melodiously
not for your sake
and not for mine

and not for the sake of winning
but for sheer delight and gratitude –
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
I beg of you,

do not walk by
without pausing
to attend to this
rather ridiculous performance.

It could mean something.
It could mean everything.
It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote:
You must change your life.”

~Mary Oliver, “Invitation”

15/07/2023

Having a wee break this Summer from the lovely work of conducting weddings as I’ve other good things going on 💜💙💛🌈. I’ll be full steam ahead next summer though with quite a few then, courtesy of the wonderful Celebrate People community . 🥰😍
https://www.instagram.com/weddingcelebrantscot/?hl=en

It was lovely to see my last wedding with the lovely Robyn and Graham at Carrick Castle featured in a recent issue of ‘Your Scottish Wedding ‘
magazine - https://www.instagram.com/yourscottishwedding

15/07/2023

Beautiful words -and true 🙏🌈💜

11/07/2023

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My work is loving the world.
Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums.
Here the clam deep in the speckled sand.

Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work,

which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.
The phoebe, the delphinium.
The sheep in the pasture, and the pasture. Which is mostly rejoicing, since all ingredients are here,

which is gratitude, to be given a mind and a heart and these body-clothes, a mouth with which to give shouts of joy to the moth and the wren, to the sleepy dug-up clam,
telling them all, over and over, how it is that we live forever. ~Mary Oliver

(Book: Thirst: Poems https://amzn.to/46zmqid)

22/06/2023

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When people allow you to know about their pain and talk about it, take your shoes off. It’s a holy place. Be humble, be kind when someone shows you vulnerability.

Art : Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor.

09/05/2023

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Words of Wisdom from :
What a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

04/05/2023

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LET YOURSELF REST
If you’re exhausted, rest.
If you don’t feel like starting a new project, don’t.
If you don’t feel the urge to make something new,
just rest in the beauty of the old, the familiar, the known.
If you don’t feel like talking, stay silent.
If you’re fed up with the news, turn it off.
If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it.
If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today.
Feel the fullness of the emptiness, the vastness of the silence, the sheer life in your unproductive moments.
Time does not always need to be filled.
You are enough, simply in your being.

~ Jeff Foster

art | Dreamtime. By Ellen Uytewaal

21/02/2023

A wonderful practice which can help with grief 🙏💙🌈

RAIN and Grieving, with Tara Brach [2021-10-13]When we have losses that have not been fully grieved, it can be helpful to be guided by the mindfulness and se...

19/02/2023

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15/02/2023

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‘Take Them With You’ Donna Ashworth
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LOSS, poems to better weather the many waves of grief: https://amzn.eu/d/fwIp4VX

14/02/2023

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Sylvia Plath ❤️❤️
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02/02/2023

Beautiful 💙🌈 Love first, always 💙🙏🌈

‘Love came first’ Thankyou Donna Ashworth 🧡

29/01/2023

How lovely and true ❤️❤️to all of them, here or no longer with us, with love . Thanks for all of it 🙏🙏💜💜💜

From the time you were very little, you’ve had people who have smiled you into smiling, people who have talked you into talking, sung you into singing, loved you into loving. So, let’s take some time to think of those extra special people. Some of them may be right here, some may be far away. Some may even be in heaven. No matter where they are, deep down, you know they’ve always wanted what was best for you. They’ve always cared about you beyond measure and have encouraged you to be true to the best within you. Let’s just take a minute of silence to think about those people now. ~Mr. (Rev. Fred) Rogers

18/01/2023

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~ Rumi ❤️

06/01/2023

How lovely - and true 💜

We said ‘till then’, to a dear friend today. I think this poem from ‘loss’ aptly sums up how hugely she will be missed and how brightly she shone.

Life is short.
Give it your all.
I know Becs did.

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From ‘loss’ https://amzn.eu/d/fwIp4VX

04/01/2023

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𝑳𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒖 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 & 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒐 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅. 💕💝💕

30/12/2022

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Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2023.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Donna Ashworth

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ART BY Demelsa Haughton Illustration

28/12/2022

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22/12/2022

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Grief is exhausting, take it one step at a time.

Charlie Mackesy 🧡

18/12/2022

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Kindness is like snow — it beautifies everything it covers.
~ Kahlil Gibran

~ Art 'First Snow' by Yuriy Novikov

22/11/2022

I know times are tough at the moment but if anyone has any spare pennies - my boy is running a half marathon for this young climate scientist who had to leave Afghanistan under the Taliban, and his family, home and security, 🙏thank you 🙏💙 Celebrate all people everywhere - leaving none aside,🙏💙

This month, I will run a half-marathon up the Kilpatrick hills behind Dumbarton to raise mone… Stephen Ramsay needs your support for Don't Forget Afghanistan