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December 12, 2023
The Nicest Word There Is
Home is the nicest word there is. � Laura Ingalls Wilder Home is where one starts from. � T.S. Eliot It takes a lot of living to make a house a home It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury It […]
Published on December 12, 2023 12:36
November 30, 2023
Upside Down
This world keeps spinning and there’s no time to waste Well, it all keeps spinning, spinning ’round and ’round and upside downWho’s to say what’s impossible…� Jack Johnson I’m always trying to turn things upside down to see if they look any better. � Tibor Kalman At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside […]
Published on November 30, 2023 12:44
November 21, 2023
Simple Act of Waiting
Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. – Khaled Hosseini Often the act of waiting is anything but simple. Many people hate to wait because they are waiting to do something, or to go somewhere. Waiting doesn’t seem like an act, but the lack […]
Published on November 21, 2023 06:32
November 14, 2023
No Greater Joy
There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone’s life -Sr. Mary Rose McGeady Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness. -Leo Tolstoy Shared joy is a double […]
Published on November 14, 2023 09:37
November 3, 2023
Passages
Doors and windows Cherish these passages, old and new,Windows to dreams, doors to more,In their presence, our spirits explore. I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.� Alice Munro “I […]
Published on November 03, 2023 10:52
October 26, 2023
The Tenacity of Yellow
There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is! � Vincent Van Gogh In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white, yellow shouts: Look at me. I’m happy! � Joy Sewing We find from […]
Published on October 26, 2023 12:58
October 16, 2023
Moments of Devotion
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more. � Wendell Berry Attention is the beginning of devotion. � Mary Oliver True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond […]
Published on October 16, 2023 07:04
October 9, 2023
Silhouettes and Shadows
Shadow owes its birth to light. � John Gay Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain,and see even here, upon a winter’s day,how beautiful the shadows are. Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so.The loveliest things in life are but shadows,and they come and go, and change and fade away…� […]
Published on October 09, 2023 11:31
September 25, 2023
Finding the Sublime
Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime. – John Ruskin To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt. – Eleanor Catton […]
Published on September 25, 2023 07:38
September 15, 2023
Harvest Time: The Gifts of Earth
The gifts of earth, in autumn, Are fruits of labor bold;The faithful sower reapsIn harvest time his gold. It twines the wreath of gladnessAround that son of earth. As he turns from care and sadness, To his joyous household hearth! – Charles William Butler It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, […]
Published on September 15, 2023 05:03
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