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Sunday reflections #75

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Only in complete silence, will you hear the desert.

Anonymous Bedouin

Starbursts

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I miss this place, and I miss you guys. Life right now is about snatching precious starburst moments with beloved friends and family, as well as listening to my body and what it needs from me right now. Apparently what I need is a lot of sleep and plenty of caffeine. Yes, you’re correct – they do seem to be mutually incompatible.

I hope you are all well, and happy. I’m thinking of you.

Sunday reflections #74

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Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre

Sunday reflections #73

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It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Vincent van Gogh

Sunday reflections #72

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But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.
Rumi

Interlaced

Weepingcherryblossom

He reached over and interlaced his fingers through mine, and my world broke open.

Irrevocably, irretrievably.

Helplessly.

Lovingly.

And nothing was ever the same.

Sunday reflections #71

Friday night pyjamas

My friends are my ‘estate’.  Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.

Emily Dickinson
Letter to Samuel Bowles, August 1858 or 1859

Sunday reflections #70

Wall Street tights

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Patrick Henry
1736-1799

Sunday reflections #69

Fancyshoes

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Coco Chanel

Sunday reflections #68

North newspaper

When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.

Virginia Woolf