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Lighting a Candle
Eight Words to Say to a Friend
Posted: 2025 Jan 13
Photo Memory of the Week
Posted: 2025 Jan 18
Poetry of the Week
Generation to Generation
- Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIn a house which becomes a home,
one hands down and another takes up
the heritage of mind and heart,
laughter and tears, musings and deeds.
Love, like a carefully loaded ship,
crosses the gulf between the generations.Read the whole thing, here.Posted: 2025 Jan 18
Category Archives: Quotations
The Philosophers’ Stone
Better the penny drops late than not at all. Continue reading
Let Me
One of them thar Texan poets. Continue reading
Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron
Chesterton on the relations between the sexes. Continue reading
Posted in Laughing Frequently, Quotations, Relationships and Behaviour, Thinking Broadly
Tagged Attitudes, Culture
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The Same River
Yes, the universe is unfolding as it should. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciating Deeply, Photos of Fauna, Photos of Landscapes, Quotations, Through Space
Tagged Birds, Desert, Other Animals, Trees
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Some Power
Was Robert Burns a Flat-Earther, do you suppose? Continue reading
Time-Travelling Space Aliens
Half-remembered quotation causing trouble again. Continue reading
Life Is
Life is a bucket brigade: Don’t slop the bucket when it’s your turn. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard that metaphor for life before? You wonder if I made it up? Well, OK. I understand your skepticism. What else? … Continue reading
You’re Too Kind
Starting with the expression that “it takes all kinds,” I explore just how many kinds there are. It takes all kinds, or so I hear. Although it’s not when someone is being a fun, thoughtful, or salt-of-the-earth kind. No, … Continue reading
By Bread Alone
A chance encounter with buckwheat tea leads to deep thoughts about bread, bread-like substances, and proverbs. It started innocently enough. Doesn’t it always? It ended with yet another overwhelming spell on Dr. Google’s couch. But I get ahead of myself. … Continue reading