Thursday Tickler

 "At some point you just have to accept who you are and apologize as necessary."

Merry Monday

 "Important to remember in parenting is that children are not small adults, although parents are frequently large children."

How Precious Are The Little Ways

 

How precious are the little ways
That keep the romance in our days,

The unexpected small caress,
The playful act of tenderness,

The gentle taking of a hand
To softly say, "I understand,"

The little now-and-then surprise
That so enlivens tired eyes,

The glance that shines with quiet pride,

The hug that says, "I know you tried,"

The sweetly reaffirming bliss
of always parting with a kiss.

How precious are the little ways
That keep the romance in our days.

Monday Musing

 "In a world of self-confident bluster, do not undervalue the charm of seeming shy and unassuming and, at times, a little lost."

Thursday Tickler

 "Irony is like when you don't believe in miracles, and you die in an  accident where police say it's a miracle only one person died." 

Cartoon Stock

Monday Musing

Another day, and life proceeds

Across its sea of wants and needs,

And I afloat, or so it seems,

Upon a raft of hopes and dreams.

                            

Thanksgiving Thought

"So maybe there's no Santa Claus... and perhaps no Easter Bunny... but that only makes Thanksgiving more special... because there really is a Grandmother." 

Monday Memory

 "Sometimes our search for happiness takes us down a familiar street to an old address."

Watercolor by Joan Brault

Thoughtful Thursday

 "The greatest joy in a goal achieved
Is sharing the moment with one who believed."

Monday Musing

 "Sometimes, to have a conversation you really need to have, you need to take a walk alone in the rain."

Thoughtful Thursday

 "Sometimes two people get to know what the other is thinking by occasionally telling each other."

Monday Musing

"What makes doing things together so special is that so much of a relationship is time spent apart, and so much of time spent together is spent doing one's own thing in each other's presence."  

Thursday Tickler

 "There are days when everyone seems to doubt you, and you just have to carry on for your secret admirers."

Monday Musing

"Ah, nostalgia!  We live our lives in the glare of the sun and recall them in the glow of the moon."

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. 

 

Thursday Tickler

Always plan for things going wrong, because they will, and sooner than you planned, which will put you ahead of schedule. 

Monday Musing

 It's a tricky thing -- knowing the life you want to live, knowing what makes it possible and not letting what makes it possible keep you from living it.

Thursday Tickler

 There are couples who will always be early to a party, no matter how many times they drive around the block in order not to be.

Thursday Tickler

 Actually, why pay for psychotherapy when there are so many numbers to call where they play calming music and tell you every two minutes how important you are to them.

Monday Musing

The way to get my attention is to give me yours.  I am never more aware of you than when I know you are listening to me. 

Thoughtful Thursday

What we envy about the people in an old family photo is not so much the life they lived as the future they imagined.

Monday Musing

 It is sad to all your life keep a deep dark secret from the person who might have shared with you a good laugh over it.

Thoughtful Thursday

 "Even the longest and happiest marriage can use an occasional love sighting."

                                                      

Sunday Sermonette

 Time -- that which reveals all lies, revises all forecasts and renders inadequate all excuses.

Robert Brault

Tuesday Tickler

The story of Adam and Eve is about a then-average couple living in Paradise, a then-average neighborhood.  It is about the eternal human aspiration to rise above the average. 

Robert Brault

Sunday Sermonette

What you often notice about people you meet on the street is that they seem to be having the same sort of day you are.

Robert Brault 

Wednesday Wildcard

 The trouble with spending all your time acquiring wealth is that you never get wealthy enough to buy back your time.

Robert Brault

Saturday Sampler

You wonder if the admonition to "Love thy neighbor" fully considered a situation where they live in the upstairs apartment.

Robert Brault

Saturday Sampler

 You come to see that aging is not a graying of the hair or a wrinkling of the skin but, rather, a tiredness that comes over the eyes. Renewed youth is not a cosmetic to be applied to your cheek; it is a rebirth of interest and engagement that shines in your outlook.

Robert Brault

Wednesday Wildcard

Self-respect is spending a half-hour deciding what to wear when it's been twenty years since anyone noticed. 

Robert Brault

Sunday Sermonette

In the parade down Main Street, we celebrate the heroism of the moment, failing to notice, in the faces lining the curb, the courage of the day-to-day. 

Robert Brault

Thursday Tickler

 We are all multiple personalities, sanity being an agreement as to which one will represent us in public.

Robert Brault

Sunday Sermonette

 It is good, occasionally, to remind yourself of what you most cherish in life and ask yourself what you did today to cherish it.

Robert Brault

Saturday Sampler

 Nostalgia:  the more or less fond memory of anything in our lives that does not kill us.

Robert Brault

Wednesday Wildcard

You can recall a joy in your life without feeling the same rush of elation; you can recall a sorrow without feeling the same crush of grief; but you cannot recall the slightest social gaffe without feeling the same flush of embarrassment.  

Robert Brault

Monday Musing

 The human body is 60% water, and like water everywhere it is forever recycling.  The teardrop that evaporates on your cheek falls again as a drop of rain nourishing the plant that another eats.  As human beings we not only share the same sorrows, we may, in the end, cry the same tears.

Robert Brault

Friday Flyer

 The trick is to live your happiness with a joyful daily awareness, not just recognize it years later as a wistful memory.

Robert Brault

Thursday Tickler

It is not a great work of art if it shows the work or, for that matter, reveals the art.

Robert Brault

Tuesday Tickler

 In abstract art there is more implied than stated, and in its appreciation, more inferred than implied.

Robert Brault

Sunday Sermonette

 And so again, into a world where it seems nothing is given to us, dawns the Easter possibility that it was all given to us.

Robert Brault 

Thursday Thought

 Every day spent happily striving toward some far off goal is to achieve the real goal, which is to spend our days happily.

Robert Brault

Saturday Sampler

 I've observed this about happy people -- that they're always going somewhere, and they seldom know what they're going to do when they get there.

Robert Brault

Sunday Sermonette

You come to realize that life's daily irritations are just things that happen.  They only become irritations if you supply the irritability.  

Robert Brault