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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Joyful simplicities
Year by year the complexities of this spinning world grow more bewildering and so each year we need all the more to seek peace and comfort in the joyful simplicities. – Woman’s Home Companion, December 1935
Kindness
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. – Sir Arthur Helps.
Thoughts
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale.
Everyone has something
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood….but everyone has something to give. – Barbara Bush
a wee bit o’ Lancaster
Give us Lord, a bit o’sun, A bit o’ work, and a bit o’ fun; Give us all, in the struggle and sputter, Our daily bread and a bit o’ butter. – On an old inn, Lancaster, England.
Tiny delights
Most of us miss out on life’s big prizes. The Pulitzer. The Nobel. Oscars. Tonys. Emmys. But we’re all eligible for life’s small pleasures. A pat on the back. A kiss behind the ear. A four pound bass. A full … Continue reading
Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. – Edith Wharton
Ralph Gaiter
“I thank Thee, Lord, for blessings, big and small; /For spring’s warm glow and song-bird’s welcome call;/ For autumn’s hue and winter’s white snow shawl./I thank Thee for the harvest rich with grain;/For tall trees and the quiet shadowed lane;/For … Continue reading
e.e. cummings
“I thank You God for this most amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.” e.e. cummings
whimsy and wit 
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