Camp

 

But the place which you have selected for your camp,

 though never so rough and grim,

 begins at once to have its attractions,

 and becomes a very centre of civilization to you: 

Home is home,

 be it never so homely.

~ Henry David Thoreau~

 

 

We are off Camping for a few days.

Enjoying Nature

and

Each Other. 

H.H.H. will return on Monday.

Enjoy the weekend.

Human Condition

 


Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. 

The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space.

 And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. 

If you expect to find people who will understand you, 

you will grow murderous with disappointment. 

The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself,

 know what it is that you want, 

 and not let the cattle stand in your way.

 ~Janet Fitch~

Made Of

 

All the world is made of

 faith, and trust, 

and pixie dust.

 ~ J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan~

Keep

 

So keep your head high, 

keep your chin up,

and most importantly, keep smiling,

 because life's a beautiful thing 

and there's so much to smile about.

~Marilyn Monroe~

Do Not

Do not take anything for granted —

 not one smile or one person

 or one rainbow or one breath,

 or one night in your cozy bed.

 ~Terri Guillemets~

Uncomfortable

 

Our ability to grow

 is directly proportional

 to an ability to

 entertain the uncomfortable.

  ~Twyla Tharp~

As We Are

We don't see things as they are,

 we see them as we are. 

~Anaïs Nin~

Meaning

 

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. 

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices

 and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.

 Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. 

To be consciously aware of it,

 to experience love in ourselves and others,

 is the meaning of life.

 Meaning does not lie in things.

 Meaning lies in us.

~Marianne Williamson~

Happy Birthday Seth

Happy Birthday Seth, 

We Love you!!!

 

 

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.

 So long as it receives a message of

 beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young.

 When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with

 the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, 

then, and only then,

 are you grown old.

 ~Douglas MacArthur~

Strength

 

Spirit has fifty times 

the strength and staying-power

 of brawn and muscle

~Mark Twain~

Rise

 

Your life is an occasion.

 Rise to it.

~ Suzanne Weyn~

Aware

 

The aim of life is to live, 

and to live means to be aware,

 joyously, drunkenly, serenely,

 divinely aware. 

~Henry Miller~

Charge Of

 

You must take personal responsibility.

You can not change 

the circumstances, the seasons,or the wind, 

but you can change yourself.

That is something you have charge of.

~Jim Rohn~

The Stuff

 

Dost thou love life? 

Then waste not time; 

for time is the stuff 

that life is made of.
~Benjamin Franklin~

Peace

 

Without inner peace,

 outer peace is impossible.

 ~Geshe Kelsang Gyatso~

Keep

Keep your thoughts positive
 because your thoughts become your words.
 Keep your words positive 
because your words become your behavior. 
Keep your behavior positive
 because your behavior becomes your habits.
 Keep your habits positive
 because your habits become your values.
 Keep your values positive
 because your values become your destiny.
~Mahatma Gandhi~

Butterfly

 

Happiness is a butterfly, 

which, when pursued,

 is always just beyond your grasp, 

but which, 

if you will sit down quietly, 

may alight upon you.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne~

Picks Up

 

Great art picks up 

where nature ends.

 ~Marc Chagall

Any Time You Can

 

A good time to laugh

 is any time you can.

 ~Linda Ellerbee~

Melts

 

I’m just a simple guy, I live from day to day.

 A ray of sunshine melts

 my frown and blows my blues away.

 

 ~Jimmy Page, ~

~Robert Plant,~

~ and John Bonham,~

~ "Out On The Tiles"~

 (Led Zeppelin)

Grand Essentials

 

Three grand essentials

 to happiness in this life are

 something to do,

 something to love,

 and something to hope for.

 ~Joseph Addison~

Dark World

 

I brought children into this dark world

 because it needed the light that

 only a child can bring.

 ~Liz Armbruster~

Delectable

 

To be overcome by the 

fragrance of flowers 

is a delectable

 form of defeat.

 ~Beverley Nichols~

sane and satisfactory

 

Love is the only

 sane and satisfactory answer 

to the problem of

 human existence. 

~Erich Fromm~

Flags of Nature

 

The forests are the flags of nature.  

 They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. 

 Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten.

  It may be that some time an immortal pine 

will be the flag of a 

united peaceful world.
~ Enos A. Mills ~ 

Tender and Sweet

 

Let my words,

 like vegetables,

 be tender and sweet,

 for tomorrow I may 

have to eat them.
~ Author Unknown~

And We Did!!

The Constitution only guarantees 

the American people

 the right to pursue happiness.

 You have to catch it yourself.

 ~ Benjamin Franklin~

Happy 4th of July

 

We must be free not because we claim freedom,

 but because we practice it. 

 ~William Faulkner~

Enthusiasm

 

You will do foolish things,

 but do them with enthusiasm. 

~Colette~

Not so Much

The difficulty lies not so much
 in developing new ideas 
 as in escaping
 from old ones.
~John Maynard Keynes~  

Jeweled Balm

 

Summer is the time when one sheds

 one’s tensions with one’s clothes, 

and the right kind of day is 

jeweled balm for 

the battered spirit.

 A few of those days and

 you can become drunk

 with the belief that

 all’s right with the world. 

~Ada Louise Huxtable~