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Teri · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 6:54 am Post subject:

This life is a shadowy thing, lad. We live in a crowded space of lights and shadows... ~James Michael Pratt

Teri · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 5:47 am Post subject:

Existence rightly considered is a fair compromise between two instincts — the instinct of hoping one day to live, and the instinct to live here and now. ~Arnold Bennett

JohnT · Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:35 pm Post subject:

"You never know what their little minds are thinking."

Kiki Hardee, 5, cooked up a series of fundraisers. As donations poured in, her schoolmates were amazed. Her donation goal was to raise around $616 in order to eliminate her school's lunch debt. But Kiki's Kindness Project didn't just pay off her elementary school's debt, but the entire district's, totaling more than $7,000.
This is in Vista, California.
Nora O'Donnell on CBS News says "Kindness is infectious".

Teri · Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:49 am Post subject:

Every day has a little bit of beauty and a little bit of chaos. ~Tanisha, @burlappearlsandboots

Teri · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:53 am Post subject:

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~Mignon McLaughlin

Teri · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:30 am Post subject:

If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. ~Senegalese Proverb

JohnT · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:54 am Post subject:

Wisdom is knowledge deepened by love. The wise person knows more deeply by way of love than by way of argument because the eye of the heart can see the truth of reality.

-- from a meditation today by Fr. Richard Rohr

Teri · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2020 8:05 am Post subject:

With the lengthening days which distinguish the third month of winter from its predecessor, come ardent desires for spring, and longings for the time of birds and flowers... ~Oscar Fay Adams

JohnT · Posted: Sat Feb 01, 2020 4:06 pm Post subject:

“I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) was an American writer. He published fourteen novels. He is most famous for his darkly satirical novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).

Teri · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:13 am Post subject:

I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun. ~Pete Gent

Teri · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2020 4:41 am Post subject:

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. ~Henry Fielding

Teri · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 7:39 am Post subject:

For every person who succeeds by holding course, ten succeed by daring to change course — and vice-versa. ~Robert Brault

JohnT · Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2020 12:07 pm Post subject:

Question the beauty of the earth, question the beauty of the sea, question the beauty of the air distending and diffusing itself, question the beauty of the sky...question all these realities. All respond: "See, we are beautiful."

--- from the writings of St. Augustine (354 - 430 AD)
He was a Roman African, early Christian theologian.

Teri · Posted: Wed Feb 05, 2020 5:52 am Post subject:

Flowers whisper "Beauty!" to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall. ~Dr. SunWolf

Teri · Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:41 am Post subject:

Truth is rarely writ in ink; it lives in nature. ~Martin H. Fischer