Out of Difficulties

Key West, Florida

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."
~ Jean De La Bruyere

Yes, this has been a difficult month for us, full of heartbreak and challenges to accept what is. 

I am reminded that from pain new life grows and that our lives are balanced by new experiences, change, and joy. 

And always, the miracles... and surprises... of life are as true as the morning sunrise.

Comes a Yes!

Key West, Florida

"After the final no there comes a yes,
And on that yes
the future world depends."
~ Wallace Stevens

So Many Objections

"So many objections
may be made to everything,
that nothing can overcome them
but the necessity of doing something."

~ Samuel Johnson

Sustaining Infinite

"To those leaning
on the sustaining infinite,
today is big with blessings."
~ Mary Baker Eddy

Take Grief

"Between grief and nothing
I will take grief."

~ William Faulkner

Learning and Purification

"The spiritual journey is
one of continuous learning
and purification.When you know this,
you become humble."
~ Sogyal Rinpoche

Birth Is Violent

"Birth is violent,
whether it be
the birth of a child,
or the birth of an idea."
~ Marianne Williamson

No Hold on Time

"He who has no vision
of eternity has
no hold on time."
~ Thomas Carlyle

Taking a Chance

"Nothing important was
ever achieved without
someone important
taking a chance."~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

For Comfort

"All mankind is crying out for guidance,
for comfort, for peace."
~ Billy Graham

Everything Is Possible

"When nothing is sure,
everything is possible."
~ Margaret Drabble

Happily May I Walk

"Happily may I walk.
May it be beautiful before me.
May it be beautiful behind me.
May it be beautiful below me.
May it be beautiful above me.
May it be beautiful all around me.
In beauty it is finished."
~ Navajo Night Chant

All Things Excellent

"All things excellent are
as difficult as they are rare."
~ Benedict De Spinoza

Our Resilient Human Spirit

"Man never made any material
as resilient as the human spirit."~ Bern Williams

Wings

"The man who has no imagination

has no wings."

~ Muhammad Ali

It's My Daughter

"For decades my role model
was my mother.
Now it's my daughter.
I’m just the woman who was
lucky enough to come
between the two."
~ Anna Quindlen

Delicious to Hear

"Mere air, these words,
but delicious to hear."~ Sappho

View from the Base

View from the bottom of my mountain

"A well-ordered life
is like climbing a tower;
the view halfway up is better
than the view from the base,
and it steadily becomes finer
as the horizon expands."
~ William Lyon Phelps

Fathers!

Happy Birthday, Daddy

"Fathers! Blessed word."
~ Maria S. Cummins

All Your Choices

"Life is a sum of all your choices."

~ Voltaire