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Farewell, 2011.

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instil in us.”  ~ Hal Borland “We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a … Continue reading

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“Gilding the Morrow”

 “Ah, Hope! What would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow”. ~ Susanna Moodie. Whilst many prefer the bright … Continue reading

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Autumn Sunset

“How fine has the day been, how bright was the sun, How lovely and joyful the course that he run! Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain: But now … Continue reading

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Never Enough Bookshelves

  “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves”.  ~ Anna Quindlen, “Enough Bookshelves,” New York Times, 7 August 1991.

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Accepting Changes…and Changing What We Can

“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me”. ~ Author Unknown The wheels of change spin around and around and I have … Continue reading

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