The Halloween Collection

Watercolor by Joan Brault

Monday Musing

 "Am I a person of prayer?  That depends --  is it prayer when you find yourself thinking aloud in places where only God could be listening?"

Thursday Tickler

 "Sometimes it helps to just take a deep breath, not forgetting to let out the deep breath you already took."

Monday Musing

 "Sometimes overlooked in an act of forgiveness -- in the fresh start we give to another -- is the fresh start it gives to us."

Thursday Tickler

"Ever lie awake at night wondering if there's something you're not losing enough sleep over?"

Rembrandt - A Woman Lying Awake In Bed, pubhist

Monday Musing

 "You can wander a loneliness alone, but it takes two to explore a solitude."

Weekend Extra

"It is not that we are perfect in the eyes of love but rather that our imperfections are lovable."

Thoughtful Thursday

 "It is so easy to give happiness to others; for instance, when we go to a party, the happiness we give the host by just enjoying ourselves."

Monday Musing

 The surest measure of the things that really matter in life is that they generate anniversaries and reunions.

Summer Memory

   The night wind boils off the ocean, bending the landscaped palmettos sideways along the hotel line.  A hundred yards inland, along Ocean Boulevard, a breeze stirs.  A quarter mile further in, on the King's Highway, a woman fans her brow and complains of the stillness of the air.

   Myrtle Beach on a summer night.  Go get a Kirk's Ice Cream.