Category: Inspiration
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Retrospection
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Robert Frost I was in my late twenties when this painting was done. Looking back, what I didn’t know could fill volumes. I can’t decide if not knowing what the future holds is a good or a bad thing. I’m sure in some instances I would have […]
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
It ain’t no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. Alice Caldwell Rice Are there people who never worry? I’m sure there must be, although it seems inconceivable to me. I have spent too many hours, hours that I will never get back, worrying about things that didn’t matter or never happened. As the […]
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Determination
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills There are 268 steps to reach the peak of the mountain, where the bronze statue of Buddha sits atop a lotus flower, and no elevator in sight. My son had climbed it once before and said it would take about twenty minutes if we […]
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Miracles
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on ever hand: life itself is a miracle. George Bernard Shaw I was told there were wild horses on Vieques Island. I hadn’t seen any. I was on Vieques for a meeting. We flew into San Juan and transferred to small, 6 seater planes […]
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Promise of Spring
I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. Virginia Woolf I was thinking about spring when I came across this Virginia Woolf quote. Autumn has always been my favorite season, yet I find I am drawn to spring, more and more, as the years pass. Maybe, […]
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Loss
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things. Arthur Schopenhauer “The angels share or les anges partagent” is a French term that refers to the percent of wine that is lost due to evaporation through the wooden sides of the barrel. The moment I read this expression it resonated with me. […]
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Changes
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I want to change myself. — Rumi Changes can be difficult and messy. This collage by Johnathan Saiz reminds me of the multitude of choices we face each day. What time should we get up in the morning? Should […]
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Little Things
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle As I was looking through my photos I saw this one, of miniature roses, taken a few years ago. A friend brought the flowers to me from her garden. I remember, I couldn’t stop […]
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The Times of Your Life
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth. Ovid I heard this quote from, Metamorphoses by Ovid last week and I have been thinking about it ever since. My twenties were some […]
Aging with Grace 