(The kitchen table.  Robbins Crossing.  November 2009.) We inherit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted — our names, the color of our eyes and the texture of our hair, the unfolding of varied abilities and interests in different...

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul. ~ Simone Weil

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel

As we grow old …  the beauty steals inward. ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

(November moonrise.) The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau