“I love thee to the level of everyday’s most quiet need, by sun and candle light…I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life.”
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning
[Note: I don’t think this is the best example of a well-executed photo, but I just loved the draping candle wax (burned as I sat up late on the night of July 4th listening to the boom of fireworks from a nearby display) and then the bright light of the following morning]
🙂
From Dar’s blog today:
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
~dale carnegie
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’
If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
~Maya Angelou
John and I staying in the cute grandkids’ room at my Mom’s house. Snapping a quick pic of our good night kiss. 🙂
[Note: the grandkids all slept together in the bonus room while we got a bit of twin-size privacy]
John snapped this pic while he was in LA yesterday. This morning I will be in Meeting watching the birds swoop around the bell tower in Santa Ana. My thoughts and spirits soar skyward alongside them.
About 20 minutes ago I told Catgirl that she could get the hammer and nails and hang some pictures in her room (we won’t even talk about how said pictures have been leaning against the wall since last August).
I’ve heard nearly-constant pounding coming from her room ever since and only one episode of glass breaking (her nice big brother schlepped the glass out to the trash and one of them ran the vacuum afterwards).
I’m looking forward to the “Trading Spaces” style reveal when she’s all finished.
