Take time each day to write something about your life's journey. Reflect daily on that which has meaning for you. There is always something but we often let the little miracles go unacknowledged. Capture them, cherish them and claim them as part of the wonderment of your life ~ Mary Francis Winters

Saturday 29 November 2014

quotes

"The soul needs to look out at things and find rest and peace and beauty in the things that the eyes are seeing. I think that’s a need. it’s a need as much as having a roof over your head and food in your stomach." - Anna Pavord

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing
― Camille Pissarro

Friday 28 November 2014

Time

Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit £86,400 in your private account for your use.  However, this prize has rules:


 

The set of rules:


 

1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.


 

2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.


 

3. You may only spend it.


 

4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another £86,400 for that day.


 

5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say,“Game Over!". It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.


 


What would you personally do?


 

You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?


 

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?


 

ACTUALLY,    This GAME is REAL ...


 

Shocked ??? YES!


 

Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it.


 

The PRIZE is *TIME*


 

1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds

as a gift of life.


 

2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to us.


 

3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.


 

4. Yesterday is forever gone.


 

5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING...


 

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?


 

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in  pounds.  Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.


 

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!


 

Here's wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start “spending”....


 

"DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD…!"


 

SOME PEOPLE DON'T GET THE PRIVILEGE

Monday 24 November 2014

christmas wish list

The Homemaker - Dorothy Canfield Fisher  - BOOK

Smoke in the Valley - David Kynaston - BOOK

Bathing the Lion - Johnathan Carroll - BOOK

Ten Canoes - FILM

Garden and Hedgerow - Ethel Armitage - BOOK

The Lost Garden - Helen Humphreys

 

Sunday 16 November 2014

perrine Rabouin - artist


miss literati

Writing Tips: 5 Tips to Make Your Story More Interesting

old age

Lavender Martini by Andrea & Paul Bartholomew on DrinkWireLudwig Knaus

landscapes of the mind

Landscapes of the Mind Dawna Markova
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible;
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.

life's journey


festivities


Monday 10 November 2014

List of books to read


The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan

Small Victories
Anne Lamott

Little Boy Brown
Isobel Harris

The Homemaker
Dorothy Canfield Fisher


Me Before You

Smoke in the Valley

Time for Change
Patricia Tudor Sandahl

 

found quotes

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we have started
and know the place for the first time

little gidding - T.S. eliot

to see the world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour

William blake

the indescribable innocence and beneficence of nature - of sun and win and rain, of summer and winter - such health, such cheer, they afford forever.  Shall I not have intelligence with the earth. Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

henry david Thoreau

the true harvest of my daily life is somewhat intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.  It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched

henry david Thoreau

We are nature, long have we been absent but now we return
We become plants, trunks, foliage, roots, bark
We are bedded in the ground, we are rocks
We are oaks, we grow in openings side by side

Walt Whitman

I go to nature to be soothed and healed
And to have my senses
Put in tune once more

John Burroughs

Death hath no part of me.  I am that living and fiery essence that flows in the beauty of the fields.  I shine in the water, I burn in the sun and the moon and the stars.  Mine is the mysterious voice of the invisible wind ... I am life

Hildegard of Bingen

The poetry of the earth is never dead

John Keats

When we try to pick out anything in nature
We find it hitched to everything else in the universe

John Muir

We are what the atmosphere is, transparent, receptive, pervious, impervious
We are snow, rain, cold, darkness, we are each a product and influence of the globe,
We have circled and circled till we have arrived home again, we two
We have voided all but freedom and all but our own joy.

Walt Whitmaqn

Sunday 9 November 2014

I am ...

The Home of picture quotes

I am thinking
I am thankful
I am wearing
I am creating
I am going
I am wondering
I am reading
I am hoping
I am learning

A favourite quote

One of my favourite things

Plans for the week

In the kitchen

Around the house

A peek into my day