Category: Inspiration
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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 […]
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An Attitude of Grace
The feature image is part of, Cross-Pollination: The Moth Migration Project by Hilary Lorenz. The installation is currently exhibited at the Denver Botanic Gardens. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou Often I read something in a book that […]
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A Creative Spirit
There is a creative spirit in you desiring to be free, and you may as well get out of it’s way for it will give you no peace until you do. Mary Caroline Richards I do better when I am involved in creative pursuits. Writing helps. Although, I find doing a stitchery project is another […]
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Seize the Moment
The future is something that everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes in an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. C.S. Lewis Our house is filled with clocks. Antiques, new, big, small, on walls, shelves and chests, time ticks away. No room is without a timepiece. A never ceasing reminder that we cannot […]
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This too, Shall Pass
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger-something better, pushing right back. Albert Camus As I walked out into the courtyard of the St. Regis that […]
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Acceptance
For after all, the best thing we can do when it is raining is let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow After a relatively mild winter, during the last few days, we have had several inches of snow. Winters here are generally mild. Whatever snow we get is gone within a few days and the sun […]
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Whimsy
I’ve learned to respect the whimsical Michael Leunig These two creatures in the photo occupy important real estate in our living room . Dim Sum, the cat, my son adopted during a trip to Hong Kong. She was a gift to me. Her name pays homage to my favorite Chinese food. Archie, the Scottish Terrier, […]
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An Epiphany
Sometimes we get stuck in patterns or reoccurring themes in our lives that require a shocking epiphany to give us the opportunity to see new possibilities and notice the obstacles that keep us from moving forward. Kat Lahr, Anatomy of Illumination As a child, Epiphany was when we took down the Christmas tree. My grandmother […]
Aging with Grace 