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Yesterday I was a boy running through the woodsMy dog was my buddy, the wind was green and yellowMy dad called me to gather cedar branchesAnd soon we were sitting around the fire telling stories We only have one life but we remember othersAs we go from seed to seed, from glimmer to ashesOur hands…

“Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst and unsurprised by anything in between”. Maya Angelou

“I’m an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” Carl Sandberg

“When I was a kid and feeling oppressed, misunderstood, cheated of life’s pleasures, uninvited to cool kids’ parties, my mother liked to say to me, “What’s the matter? Did the dog pee on your cinnamon toast?” And it always made me happy. Still does.”  Garrison Keillor 

“Accessing the universal through the particular.” Richard Rohr

“I have done what is mine; may Christ teach you what is yours!” Francis of Assisi

“We must each learn how to define ourselves by the present moment—which is all we really have. I will not define myself by what went wrong yesterday when I can draw upon Life and Love right now. Life and Love are what’s real. This Infinite Love is both in us and yet it is more…

“Coincidence is Gods way of remaining anonymous.” Albert Einstein 

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” Thorin Oakenshield, In the book, ‘The Hobbit’