Some nights require an escape to the country. The chaos of creation and calamity gets too thick and the need of calm so strong…particularly for those of us who have always favored quiet. And to the country I drive. Sometimes it’s simply quiet, but last night it was downright stunning. […]
quotes
14 posts
My mum is a reader. My sister is a reader. We used to spend hours in the public library, or in the book store. My dad would sometimes drop us at the mall when he had business meetings, but he always knew where to find us (pre-cell phone days) because we were […]
“If you feel spiritually empty,visit a winter garden cloaked in barrenness. Underfoot is hope stirring,alive,warming itself without expectation. The fallen fruit has melded with the compassion of Earth. In your soul, too, is a season called grace, and therein lies the seed of a new spring, where life has a chance to blossom again. It is okay […]
Ah, it’s the first week of a new year. Hurrah! From the title, you might think this will be my list of resolutions for the year. Allow me to clarify, it is not. First of all, I have mixed feelings about making promises to myself in such a pressure oriented, […]
“An Adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” ~G.K. Chesterton
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ~Helen Keller