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Beauty in the Commonplace

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

I will rise

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I Stand

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In Order to Reflect

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

For an Audience of One

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Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Marsh Light

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Extravagance

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Neighborly Bounty

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title quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Me

I don't want to miss it. In the business, in the noise, in the to do's and undones, I don't want to miss a thing.

Laurie Newman

"In the calm of Your presence
I am listening, Lord
I am still, I am quiet
I am Yours

There's a thirst in my soul
For Your wisdom divine
I long for the peace
And life that I find

In the calm."

by Scott Krippayne, Tony Wood

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

G.K. Chesterson

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

John Muir

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Sara Groves

This is grace, an invitation to be beautiful.

Oscar Hammerstein

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant, better known by her pseudonym George Sand

La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme.

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes," she continued, "is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

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