Your character is what you really are…
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
Been gone too long…
I didn’t expect to take a 2 month hiatus but pregnancy can do that to you I guess. I lost my focus but I’m getting re-inspired and hope to have quite a few posts here for you in the next few days, weeks, months. If there is a lapse, it’s due to my belly getting […]
Be glad of life…
“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars” -Henry Van Dyke Last hyacinth photo for a while…I’ll be throwing in some more variety…just couldn’t get over how beautiful they are…if only I could transmit the lovely smell as […]
The life around me…
“I must interpret the life around me as I interpret the life that is my own. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to itself. If I am to expect others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see, however […]
Delicious ambiguity…
“I wanted a perfect ending… Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity” –Gilda Radner […]
It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich…
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich”. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer I am grateful for the weather slowly warming up, the small buds beginning to form on my favorite tree, for the lighter evenings, and the gorgeous […]
Generosity of soul…
“To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness , and kindness” –Confucius
Find your eternity in each moment…
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” –Henry David Thoreau Sorry I’ve been absent from this blog – I hope you’ll hang […]
But i’m not too blue to fly…
“The Littlest Birds” – The Be Good Tanyas Well I feel like an old hobo, I’m sad lonesome and blue I was fair as the summer day now the summer days are through You pass through places and places pass through you But you carry ’em with you on the souls of your travellin’ shoes Well I love […]
I want to have lived…
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.” –Diane Ackerman,