A Moment of Peace/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau/ Rabindranath Tagore

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

2478181882_42ec337a2c A Moment of Peace/ Jean-Jacques Rousseau/ Rabindranath Tagore

We’ve had with our kids - they’ve all grown up.  ~


Every child comes with the message that is not yet discouraged of man.  ~


You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing.  What!  Is it nothing to be happy?  Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long?  Never in his life will he be so busy again.  ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762

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Searching For Gold/ Douglas Pagels/ Leo Tolstoy/ Rose Fyleman

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

2478181924_1bb95ebd36 Searching For Gold/ Douglas Pagels/ Leo Tolstoy/ Rose Fyleman

, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.  ~


And though you should live in a , or sleep in a dried up ditch,
You could never be as poor as the are, and never as rich.
~Rose Fyleman


Sometimes it’s important to work for that .  But other times it’s essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the .  ~, These Are the Gifts I’d Like to Give to You

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Virginia Beach And A Sailing Day/ John Muir

Monday, September 8th, 2008

sailboat with a beautiful green sail

How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry for a roof!  In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and like the and , or or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.  ~

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Oh Brother!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
2741110633_32e922a77a Oh Brother!

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~

A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~.

In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips. ~Author Unknown

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