“When doubts and fears are growing,
It’s hard to keep on going
From day to day not knowing
Just what the end will be.
Take each day as you find it,
If things go wrong, don’t mind it,
For each day leaves behind it
A chance to start anew.”
~Gertrude Ellgas
Some of today’s joys…

A garden to tend.

The little things, at ground level.

The first […]

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I left my training today — the second day of it — feeling quite worn.  The single question of how I might make it through the rest of the week was floating around in my mind.  I was able to acknowlege to myself that I wasn’t quite threadbare, but close.

It was absolutely wonderful to come home, […]

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Being back home is wonderful. If you’ve ever worked outside of your home while your heart was at home, then you would understand my joy at this first thought upon waking:  Oh, I don’t have to go anywhere today…
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Breakfast in Bed

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It’s not a matter of not wanting to work, mind you. It’s a matter […]

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Some people regard discipline as a chore.  For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly. 
Julie Andrews

Heed the still, small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly. 
Mme. du Deffand

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions. 
Lillian Hellman

The million little things […]

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I was wondering if you would care to join me for a little walk.  And some talking?

My mind has been so full lately of things I want to do in life. 
Much of what I am doing right now is just a means to that end.  I can wait.  :)  I’m just building up muscle right now. 
L.H. Talbot said
It is […]

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Recently I said to husband, “Want to meet me at our mountain lodge?”  He knew exactly what I was talking about.  “Yes” was his answer. 
Our mountain lodge is just a few steps from the kitchen.  We have never had the money to really travel, though we have worked in a few nice family vacations […]

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I’ve had it on my mind lately, just how do I appear to others?  Little things have shown me through the years that indeed others do watch my life, just as I watch the lives of others, and my actions and words give impressions to people.  Though others may not “judge” me, I am sure […]

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“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”  Robert Louis Stevenson
Some of the joys of my day have been these. 
I have thought many times lately how nice it’d be to have a footstool in front of my loveseat to warm my toes at the old heater now that I’ve rearranged my living room.  […]

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Therefore, I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.

Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor […]

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“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, […]

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