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A Bouquet Of Daffodils

Lovely spring things to see yellow nodding daffodils are beams of sun to me. Many different hues of green awaken the spirit of spring, scent of earth, fresh clean air the song the robins sing. ©Sharron R. McMillan

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The Old Button Suitcase

This old suitcase has become the repository for my mother’s tall cookie tin full of buttons, my sister’s mother-in-law’s German cookie tin full of buttons, my daughter’s glass jars of button collections and now for my square candy tins of … Continue reading

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Spirals

  The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. ~Madame de Staël French novelist 1766-1817

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Questions

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~Rainer Maria … Continue reading

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Tell It

  We have enough people who tell it like it is – now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ~ Robert Orben

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Compassion

Like honesty, compassion may be expressed through verbal means but its basic form of communication is silence. ~ Clark E. Moustakas

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World View

Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists. ~ Marcel Proust

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Regrets

Don’t regret the past, just learn from it. ~Ben Ipock

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Figuring Life Out

You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. ~Robert M. Pirsig

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Love Notes

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Today

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Circumstantial Evidence

Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man. ~Benjamin Disraeli

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Tradition

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes—our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking around. ~ Gilbert … Continue reading

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Truth

And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.  ~Jesus

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Prayers For Doing What Is Right

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings … Continue reading

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