Sun pours down like honey

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.  The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. - Amelia Ear...

You can keep shiny and new, give me the old and faded, the worn and weathered, the patina of standing up to time and ...

  Our recent vacation in Vermont included a trek up to Canada, Lake Memphremagog actually, which was quite lovely.  We noted the also lo...

Forget Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle ...

Every man's memory is his private literature. - Aldous Huxley

Some from our yard, some from walks, despite the steamy heat (we just about melted on our walk today) and long days of over...

Someone cannot do more than lift his sleepy head when his noon time snooze is interrupted.  I think dogs sleep more than cats and ou...

Down the road from us, pretty standard suburban neighborhood, some folks have planted corn.  I bet many more people than just me get the s...

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need is here. - Wendell Berry 

Hard to believe it is ten years since he passed. My Dad would have been 90 today.  Just the other day I came across a book I would have wa...

Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader....

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed. - Patti Smith, Just Kids

There is the giant rock in my back yard, freed at last from overgrown clumpy bushes and mid-sized trees that had taken it over in the last d...

Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. - S.W. Duffield

It is a shameful thing to insult a little child.  It has its feelings, it has its small dignity; and since it cannot defend them, it is su...

Send me a bird, send me its song, send me a story a lifetime long. Send me some blue, send me some shine, send me something I know is ...

You can't give of what you have if you don't know what you've got. - Elan Morgan, We Can Become Known

I was seriously born into the wrong country.  If only my mother had gone to Scotland and fallen in love with my Dad there instead of...

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson