Picture Postcards
Postcard from Minnesota
What day is it? It’s today, squeaked Piglet. My favorite day, said Pooh. ~A. A. Milne (Ice fishing on Lake Minnetonka, Orono, Minnesota. View from a new baby’s room, where today is always a favorite day.)
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The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. ~ Dalai Lama (Favorite barn in winter, Fletcher Road; warm-hearted red door.)
Read MoreHappy New Year, a Postcard
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion. It has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ~Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet (Thank you, 2012, for your abundant gifts. You gave me Lebanon, and for that I will be forever grateful. Happy New Year to all…
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace. ~ Romans 15 (Norman Rockwell scene, Harbor Springs. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays,and Joy to the World.)
Read MorePostcard from Up North, A Moment of Silence
He who learns must suffer; and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God. ~Aeschylus (In broken-hearted memoriam. Read by Robert Kennedy, on the assassination of MLK.)
Read MoreHappy Thanksgiving, a Postcard
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ~Melody Beattie (Happy, happy Thanksgiving. May the fullness of our lives…
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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. -Japanese proverb (Glowing dock in fall, twilight on Little Traverse Bay, our great teacher.)
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. ~ Lau Tzu (Birch tree in town, cut down for reasons not obvious to the naked eye. Yet it’s good to see that birches are beautiful to the core, inside and out.)
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (Words not for the cows lining up for hay in their colorful, happy barn on Pickerel Lake Road, but for us during election season.)
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It is not we who seek the Way, but the Way which seeks us. That is why you are faithful to it even while you stand waiting, so long as you are prepared, and act the moment you are confronted by its demands. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld (M-119, our tunnel of trees. It is the Way,…
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