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Quotable
I’m a day late in my usual post. In the mean time, another of my favorite quotes. A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Charles Spurgeon
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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…
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A Legacy
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon Alder A couple of days ago my husband told me one of his employees asked him if I had been a model. He wondered why and she said, I walked like…