Tag Archives: words

Tell It

Posted on March 2, 2021 by hernibs

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

Posted on February 28, 2021 by hernibs

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

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Regrets

Posted on February 24, 2021 by hernibs

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

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Circumstantial Evidence

Posted on February 15, 2021 by hernibs

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

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Why am I doing this, all these binders, too much information. I started researching my family tree, then trying to fit pieces of my personal puzzle together from the years I’d lost when I was ill. It became a habit, … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged albums, binders, diaries, family, heart, history, inspiration, Life, memories, nature, opus, past, photograph, present, record, share, survival, thoughts, words, Writing | 2 Comments

Tête-à-tête

Posted on October 8, 2020 by hernibs

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, Fall, flowers, garden, impatiens, Life, nasturtium, nature, photograph, red, thoughts, words, yellow | 2 Comments

Life In The Cemetery

Posted on September 7, 2020 by hernibs

A beautiful, quiet place to contemplate the meaning of life. Words, symbols, plants, flowers, birds all add meaning to the place where ones body ends up, and where life no longer has any meaning at all except to those who … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged bc, Beauty, cemetery, flowers, hydrangea, Life, meaning, memory, nature, Peace, photograph, remember, seeing, thoughts, words | 1 Comment

Character

Posted on September 6, 2020 by hernibs

You show your character in nothing more clearly than by what you think laughable. ~Goethe

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Hope

Posted on June 7, 2020 by hernibs

Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all. ~Emily Dickinson

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Dawn Chorus Off Key

Posted on May 31, 2020 by hernibs

Dawn chorus welcomes a brand new day, ‘Good morning, Good morning,” the birds seem to say, And then some human gets on the line, with grating complaint and pitiful whine. I’ve not heard a bird sound quite as bitter as … Continue reading →

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged birds, dawn chorus, Life, photograph, poem, thoughts, Trump, tweet, twitter, words | 5 Comments

Victim or Victor

Posted on May 27, 2020 by hernibs

A victim continues to look at what they lost, a victor looks at what was kept.

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Balance

Posted on February 9, 2020 by hernibs

A great many people in this country are worried about law and order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: you cannot have either until you have both. ~ Ramsey Clark

Posted in Living Simply, Simplicity | Tagged balance, bc, Beauty, don't worry, forest, justice, law and order, Life, nature, photograph, Quote, Ramsey Clark, remember, seeing, words | 1 Comment

Criticism

Posted on February 6, 2020 by hernibs

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better. Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. ~Centre for Action and Contemplation

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Dukkha

Posted on February 4, 2020 by hernibs

How we relate to others – to what others say and do (or what they don’t say or do) – dominates much of our experience. If we drop down into this reactivity, what we find there is always the same: … Continue reading →

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Live Peace, Speak Peace

Posted on January 23, 2020 by hernibs

“To live without speaking is better than to speak without living. For the former who lives rightly does good even by his silence but the latter does no good even when he speaks.” ~Abba Isidore of Pelusia

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