Postcard from Spring
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul. ~ Botanist Luther Burbank (A California wildflower moment, to remind those of us living...
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If we heaped together all the love that mothers have for their children, all the love of husbands and wives, all the love of all the angels and saints, it could never equal Mary’s love for even a...
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. — Joseph Campbell (A mother and her five children, at the marina in Harbor Springs. She has given each one of us the privilege of a lifetime: being who...
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Go slowly, my lovely moon, go slowly. ~ Khaled Hosseini (Moonshine over Little Traverse Bay. Let the summer begin, but go slowly…)
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One key to knowing joy is being easily pleased. ~Mark Nepo (Discovering these awnings on Lake Charlevoix on a sunny spring day = easy pleasure, and joy.)
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Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly. ~Pablo Neruda (Happy summer to you from the Bluff’s glowing wet light. May the season’s poetry be yours.)
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I thought of that while riding my bicycle. ~ Albert Einstein, in reference to the Theory of Relativity (The bikes of summer are everywhere Up North. They help a mind wander.)
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~ W.H. Murray (Someone dreamed of a different life. She began it: she moved north, planted lavender, and it...
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Each day asks this of us: that we live it. That we breathe while there is air to float upon. That we move while there is earth to hold us. That we not grieve our too crooked paths, That we … Continue...
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. ~ Goethe (Last light on Little Traverse Bay. Even in clouds, the bay is capable of great...
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People don’t notice whether it’s summer or winter when they’re happy. ~Anton Chekhov (We hate to see her go, but we’ll hold her close until next time.)
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. ~Carl Jung (Red tugboat in the bay’s blue fog. Looking outside here, even in fog,...
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If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand: Rejoice, for your...
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Should you fall even fifty times a day, never on any account should that surprise or worry you. Instead, ever so gently set your heart back in the right direction. ~Saint Jane Frances de Chantal...
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Postcard from Up North
Thaw, with her gentle persuasion, is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. ~ Henry David Thoreau (Little Traverse Bay responds beautifully to gentle...
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