“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America I keep reminding myself when I am out walking like the Michelin man in the freezing cold, that I won’t enjoy the warmth of summer as much if I…
“It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.” – Ally Condie, Matched Sorting out the storage boxes in the basement is forcing me to go through things that I haven’t thought about in ages…like the girls and their Irish dancing days – over 8…
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Yup…the men and dogs in our lives should really get used to the idea that in this house, women and cats will do as they please!!! Never a truer statement there was!…
“i am a little church(no great cathedral)far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities–i do not worry if briefer days grow briefest,i am not sorry when sun and rain make april my life is the life of the reaper and the sower;my prayers are prayers of earth’s own clumsily striving(finding and losing and laughing…
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass If this…