"Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it." -Anne “Ninon” de L’Enclos.

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“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

Oprah Winfrey

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

"May you live all the days of your life."

Jonathan Swift

May you know the joy of freedom
- and the joy of having roots.

To walk in sunlight along a lonely beach.
To sprawl in meadow grass.
To swim in the transparency of water.
To come home to those you love.

"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in
life."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Allan K. Chalmers

"One day we will meet beside the river and our Lord will dry every tear. For now, we must live in the joy of that promise and recall that for every generation life is hard, but God is faithful."

Bodie Thoene

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."

Margaret Thatcher

So that's how life works. We have experiences, we love, we feel, we hurt, we cry; we're passionate, overwhelmed, happy. We meet new people, we lose people. There are weddings and babies. We listen to music, we create art - poetry, paintings, songs, mosaics. We love each other. We love each other. That's the best we can do - in anything, loving is most important.

3/11/07

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

Lin Yutang

The romantic evenings. The cram sessions. The art projects. That nasty bug that's going around. The playdates. The group photos. The plumbing leak. The leftover pizzas. Marathon games of hide-and-seek. The holidays. Endless worry. Ceaseless dread. The rainy-day stir-crazies. The new puppy. The tantrums. The laundry. The slow dances. The important dinners. The naps. The alarms. the frantic mornings. And beneath it all, the underlying beauty of every single day.

Ebb & Flow

Amber skies stretch out across
mountains rich like indigo
Blackness bleeds to grey and light breaks
As dawn slowly lifts the shadows

A path once forgotten as I strayed
looking to follow those from before
Kicking up dust with their swollen shoes
Signs linger cross the earth strung cross the shore

Not as easy to look within and see with eyes
unblinded by life's rose colored lenses
To see the truth as bare as a rigid desert
Beyond the walls of brick , beyond chain linked fences

I will not view the world in black and white
as only coal dust in mouth or sweetness of new snow
I will see the reds, the golds, and the silver lining
Adjusting the tip of my soul to capture both ebb and flow

Delias Thompson

"Once you start to see through the myth of status, possessions, and unlimited consumption as a path to happiness, you'll find that you have all kinds of freedom and time. It's like a deal you can make with the universe: I'll give up greed for freedom. Then you can start putting your time to good use."

David Edwards, Nothing to Lose But Our Illusions

"The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things...the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard."

Barbara Pym

"Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

Hans Christian Andersen

"After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value."

George Macauley Trevelyan

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

Ralph Waldo Emerson