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Quote # 140 [Keeping it together]
“But try this simple test: Stand still in any crowded place and watch the people around you. Within a very short time, you will begin to see love, and you will see it over and over and over. A young mother talking to her child, a couple laughing together as they walk by, an older…
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Quote # 138
Here in the going, going gone “Dark laughter on the teeter-totter,an old song floats across the water,I know I should pack up and move on.One-note Johnnies proliferate,the wind rises, the hour is latehere in the going going gone. My heart ain’t mine, my heart is yours –or else I left it out-of-doorslike a baseball glove…
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Today’s Solistice
The summer solstice marks the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, bringing the longest day and shortest night of the year as the Earth’s tilt positions the northern half most directly toward the sun. The word “solstice” comes from Latin, combining “sol” (sun) and “stitium” (pause or stop), representing the moment when the sun…
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Quote # 137
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes — including you.” Anne Lamott
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Quote # 136
“But the life of faith operates within a different order of reality. You do not, in fact have to create, muster, manufacture, or maintain your own light. I promise you have been absorbing enough of it for long enough to shine with it. You have been absorbing God’s light all along—even when you don’t believe…
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Quote # 135
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” Charles Dickens
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Quote # 134 [Poem for mature audiences]
This Be The Verse BY PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and…
