Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them. ~ Russell H. Conwell I think I’m going to forever associate sunflowers with my mother’s illness and death.  Not in a bad way,...

It is not by meticulous care in avoiding all contaminations that we can keep our clean and give it grace, but by urging it to give vigorous expression to its inner life in the very midst of all the dust and heat and hurts. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Every exit is . . .  an entrance somewhere else. ~ Tom Stoppard

(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