Sunday, November 6, 2011

TEENAGERS






November  6,  2011

Quote for Today

"Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms ....
     To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese.
       To the cook, they are a scourge of locusts.
 To department stores, they're a big beautiful
             exaltation of larks ....
        all lovely and loose and jingly."

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Saturday, November 5, 2011

PREOCCUPATIONS 
BECOME US




Quote for Today  November 5,  2011

"What the mind dwells on, expands."

Norman Vincent Peale [1898-1993]

Friday, November 4, 2011

WHEN THE SOUL 
SPLITS APART 

November  4,  2011

Quote for Today

                              NOTE

My soul came apart like an empty jar.
It fell overwhelmingly, down the stairs.
Dropped from the hands of a careless maid.
It fell. Smashed into more pieces
              than there was china in the jar.

Fernando Pessoa



[I found this short poem on page 263 of The Education of the Heart - edited by Thomas Moore, Readings and Sources for Care of the Soul, Soul Mates, and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, Harper Perennial, 1996]

Thursday, November 3, 2011


SHEER SUFFERING  
IS NEVER  ENOUGH

November  3, 2011

Quote for Today

"I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches.  If  suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers.  To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh [1906-2001], Time, February 5,  1973

Picture on top of Anne Morrow Lindbergh - photographed at her home in Darien, Connecticut in 1956


Monday, October 31, 2011


SEEING RESURRECTION
IN THE SPARKS
AND THE LICK
OF RED FLAMES



Quote for Today - November 2, 2011

"There is something beyond the grave; death does not end all, and the pale ghost escapes from the vanquished pyre."

Sextus Propertius [54 B.C. - A. D. 2], Elegies, IV, vii, 1.
SAINTS AND SCEPTICS

November  1,  2011

Quote for Today

"A saint is a sceptic once in every twenty-four hours."

Ralph Waldo Emerson [1803-1882], Journals, 1864

WHO'S IN CHARGE
INSIDE THERE?



Quote for Today  - October 31, 2011

"Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains."

Helen Gahagan Douglas, speech at Marlboro College, 1975,  A Full Life, 1982