Tag: Coping
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One of Those Days
But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody and everything. One lives only to make blunders Charles Darwin Looking through my photos to choose something for today’s blog, this bear seemed to best typify my mood. Darwin might sympathize. It’s encouraging to know even he had challenging times. My day…
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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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What’s Past
The past is never dead. It’s not even past William Faulkner This is one of my favorite photos. I took it, several years ago, during a walk through the fall foliage. I am mesmerized by the glimpse of what lies beneath the fallen leaves. What is past still remains just below the surface. It is…
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Tranquility
You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit. Stacy London I have written about my unease in this post pandemic life and about my love of flowers. This vase of summer flowers, beneath a painting of a field of…
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Survival
Chihuly Sculpture Exhibit 2014, Denver Botanic Gardens Everyone must row with the oars he has. English Proverb While looking through some books for inspiration for this week’s blog, I ran across a page of quotes my mother had written down. I don’t remember the page or putting it in the book. The quote above was…
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Retirement
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. Mark Twain I took the photo of this portrait at the Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism exhibit at the Denver Art Museum in 2020. For some, this could be a painting of a goal for retirement, just looking…