MLK Day 2019

Today celebrating peaceful non-violent protest, and equal justice under the law. Expressing gratitude for all those who find the courage to fight for what is right.

Steampunk Inspiration

What could be more inspiring than this great quote and pretty card from Vicki Romaine?

Verses for April

Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers. --

Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557

The year's at spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill sides's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven -

All's right with the world!
Robert Browning, The Year's at the Spring, 1870

Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed
Their snow-white blossoms on my head,
With brightest sunshine round me spread
Of spring's unclouded weather,
In this sequestered nook how sweet
To sit upon my orchard-seat!
And birds and flowers once more to greet,
My last year's friends together.

William Wordsworth

Happy Mother's Day to all

“A mother can divide her love among ten children and each child still have all her love.”

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my mother.” – Abraham Lincoln

“My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.” – Mark Twain

“A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” – Tenneva Jordan

“You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be --
I had a mother who read to me.”
- Strickland Gillilan

“What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.” – Mark Twain

This image available on Lunagirl Vintage Girls & Boys and Lunagirl Victorian Holidays Volume Two.

Quote for the day on Friendship

A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, both chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. -- Arabian proverb

Quotes for Today: Adventure

“Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” ~ Helen Keller

“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.” ~ Thornton Wilder

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." ~ Eugene Ionesco

“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien, from 'The Lord of the Rings'

Quotes for the Day: Einstein on Fairy Tales & Imagination!

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." :-)

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein~Scientist (1879-1955)