Final Thought

 What happiness it is...

 after a day of seeking advantage in the world...

 to come home to someone over whom the last thing in the world you would ever seek...

is an advantage.

Weekend Wildcard

 "It's important to listen carefully.  It keeps things from getting into your head that you may later mistake for your opinion." 

Wistful Wednesday

 "It is said that nothing lasts forever, but there are moments in our lives when we think something will, and it is the memory of those moments...

                                                    

         

         ...that lasts forever." 

Monday Musing

 "It seems, in youth, that everything we do is practice for the real thing, a rehearsal for some future grand debut.  And then the years go by, and we look back and realize that the practice was the real thing, the rehearsal the grand debut."

~~ from my book A Few For The Road

Monday Musings

Questions For The Home Commute

"Did I make some complicated thing simple today, or did I make some simple thing complicated?"

"Was it wise to spend another day trying to accomplish Thing B as a means of accomplishing Thing A?"

"What are the things in my life I most cherish, and what did I do today to cherish them?"

~~ from my book A Few For The Road

Friday Flyer

 "You learn this -- that no situation in life that tests your patience is going to test just some of it."

Sunday Sermonette

I had this dream.  It was my memorial service, and a friend said, "He was a person of good intention and sincere regret unfairly judged by his actions," and I'm thinking, "Yes!" 

Thoughtful Tuesday

 "Most sinners know who their forgivers will be, and that, more than anything, is what makes it a sin."

Weekend Wildcard

 "One of the great frustrations of knowing history is having those who do not know history drag you back into it."

 

Wednesday Whimsy

 There's nothing like someone saying, "You're smarter than that" to make you wonder what other unfounded rumors might be circulating about you.

Thursday Thought

No matter how varied and complex our daily responsibilities, at the end of the day Mother Nature has just one question for us:  "What life did you nurture today?"

Sunday Sermonette

 What a treasure is a person of true self-esteem, who need not be humored or appeased,

  who does not see disagreement as a personal affront or agreement as a show of weakness, 

 who does not feel threatened by the honest aspirations of others,

         who does not mistake pride for honor, or prejudice for principle, or privilege for merit. 

 With such a person, conversation is possible; compromise is possible, and, dare we hope, even common civility is possible. 

 

Friday Flyer

 A phrase you hear a lot these days is, "You're overthinking this," which, to be honest, is not something I've noticed to be that widespread a problem.

Monday Musing

  "You come to realize - while there is still time, hopefully - that your potential for happiness is a vast virgin land, your current comfort zone just an encampment at its edge."

Wednesday Whimsy

 "A good rule of thumb for determining what's really important in life is that you wouldn't trade it in on a new one."

The Ladder of Hope

    A Mind to rule the brain,

A Spirit to fire the mind,

A Heart to temper the spirit,

A Soul to guide the heart,

A Grace to nourish the soul.

Thoughtful Thursday

  "There is nothing owed with so little sense of debt, and given with so little thought of repayment, as a happy childhood."

*See Below

"The stars in their myriad constellations:  a trillion asterisks and no explanations."

Wednesday Wildcard

  "I've learned this about making a good first impression -- that obviously trying to do so works better than obviously not trying."

Ah, Wistfulness!

  "I love to go down to the open sea 

For the solitude -- and the company."

Thoughtful Thursday

 "If I choose to believe that we're all God's children, it's because I'm darn sure it's all or none."

Monday Musing

 "I don't know that love conquers all, but it conquers a lot, and a little forgiveness usually does for the rest."