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

Constant Education

"All of life is a constant education."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The Art of Art

"The art of art ...
is simplicity."
~Walt Whitman

Confidence

"Confidence is contagious."

~ Vince Lombardi

Lion For a Day

"It’s better to be a lion for a day
than a sheep all your life."
~ Elizabeth Kenny

Untie the Ribbons

"Each day comes
bearing its own gifts.
Untie the ribbons. "
~ Ruth Ann Schabacker

Loneliness Is

"What loneliness is
more lonely than distrust?"~ George Eliot

Explodes the Illusions

"A crisis event often
explodes the illusions
that anchor our lives."
~ Robert Veninga

Live To the Point Of

"Live to the point of tears."
~ Albert Camus