Crafty

In these last cold days of winter,

get in touch with your inner crafty chick.

Match

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
~Joseph Campbell~

Awake

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!
~Thomas Blackburn~

Let Us

Let us love the world to peace.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman~

They Are Not Environmentalists

They are Earth Warriors!

*Based on a quote by Daryl Cherney*

Without Cause

Those who can laugh without cause
have either found the true meaning of happiness
or have gone stark raving mad.
~Norm Papernick~

Fragile

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.  

~Turkish Proverb~

Happy Fat Tuesday ( on Wednesday)

It has been a year of weekly celebrations for us!
It all started with Fat Tuesday last year.
It has been a great year of celebrating everything from
chip and dip day
to
Pirate Day.
I know the next year of celebrations will be just as much fun.
Here is a look at our Fat Tuesday celebration yesterday!


The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
~James Openheim~

The Squirrel Whisperers

I always knew our kids were a bit squirrely.

Now I have proof!

Forsythia

The flowers of late winter and early spring
occupy places in our hearts
well out of proportion to their size.

~Gertrude S. Wister~

Reflection

“Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.” 

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Love and Patience

With Love and Patience,
nothing is impossible.
~ Daisaku Ikeda~

Hello

Sometimes Nature reaches out to say "Hello"!

Be Silly

Most of us don't need
a psychiatric therapist
as much as a
friend to be
silly with.

~Robert Brault~

Siblinghood

I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers.  

 It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage.  

Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

~Maya Angelou~

Love

Sometimes we make love with our eyes.
Sometimes we make love with our hands.
Sometimes we make love with our bodies.
Always we make love with our hearts.

~Author Unknown~

Reach For The Impossible

Every night I see the moon and every night it reminds me to reach for what seems impossible.

Sometimes, it shows itself during the day, as if it knows I need the reminder.

Monkey

If I Had $1000000
If I Had $1000000
I'd buy you a monkey
haven't you always wanted
a monkey?

~Barenaked Ladies~

Connected

I'll tell you what hermits realize. 

If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, 

you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
~Alan Watts~

My Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge devotion to the earth,
our one and only home,
and to the life this earth sustains;
one nation,
one spirit indivisible,
with freedom and fulfillment
for all.

- Bruce Hagen-
- New Pledge of Allegiance, 1983 -

Lost

When I'm lost;

This is how I find my way back.

Pounce

No one can get inner peace
by
pouncing on it.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick~

Spring?

Okay, this is from last March but when Becca and I were out yesterday, we saw buds!!

Is that you Spring?

Mirror

The future is an opaque mirror.
Anyone who tries to look into it sees
nothing but the dim outlines
of an old and worried face.
~Jim Bishop~

Honesty

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts, that is the end of it.

~American Proverb~

Perspective

Look at your feet.
You are standing in the sky.
When we think of the sky,
we tend to look up,
but the sky actually
begins at the earth.
- Diane Ackerman -

The Heart Of Man

There is more in the heart of man than money can buy

~Grettir's Saga ~ Viking Stories~

Fine Art

All the art of living lies
in a fine mingling of
letting go
and
holding on.

~Havelock Ellis~

Ridicule and Deformity

"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.  Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all.  But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."
~  William Blake, 1799, The Letters ~