Inspiration
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Challenges
There is always a gift in any challenge. Bronnie Ware. Life is made up of challenges. Some small, some catastrophic. Let me begin with telling you this comes under the small category. My hope is in facing challenges, of any size, we are able to learn something through the experience. A couple of months ago,…
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I Believe
No man believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. George Bernard Shaw The photo above is my feeble attempt at gardening. I have found that grass is forgiving, so I plant lots of it. I wish I could be more like my friend, Barb…
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Be Happy
Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their mind to be. Abraham Lincoln It’s true, happiness is a state of mind.That being said, it helps to surround yourself with what you love. The loved ones in our lives can’t always be there, yet we can work to be enveloped by things that…
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Faith Revisited
There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in. Leonard Cohen The first time I saw Sacre-Coeur Basillcia it was silhouetted against a brilliant blue sky. Climbing the stairs to the entrance and finally stepping inside, I felt a sense of peace, This wasn’t the feeling of awe I had…
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Flower of the Lily
A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. Jiddu Krishnamurti When my sister sent me an Etsy gift card for my birthday and told me to find something French, I didn’t have to look long. I put her card together with one from my husband and…
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Flowers and Books
How to be happy when you are miserable. Plant Japanese poppies with cornflowers and mignonette, and bed out the petunias among the sweet peas so that they shall scent each other. See the sweet peas coming up. Drink very good tea out of a thin Worcester cup of a color between apricot and pink. Rumer…
Aging with Grace 