Pack in a lawn chair and sit awhile, cool your dusty, summer-hot feet in the Bitterroot River, maybe even at this same perfect spot on Maclay Flat just south of Missoula, Montana.
“The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of a river without feeling guilty about it. “ — Chinese philosopher
“God knows I was due a little Light Shining on me from Above, whether I believed in such things or not. Like most people, denying it never got in the way of relying on it. “
-Woody Nickel in West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, p 75
Blushing bouquets blooming everywhere, even as’ I donned my winter hat and gloves against the chill promise (we hope!!!) of snow in the hills.
I was a bride married to amazement. …” - Mary Oliver (1935-2019) from her poem When Death Comes
“…but if you never do, don't be discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all . . . They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here . . . everywhere . . . if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fulness." “
-Mrs. Allan to Anne, Anne of Avonlea, Chapter 15 by L.M. Montgomery
“It was his favorite tree and he
would sit in its shade all day
and smell the flowers.”
-from The Story of Ferdinand
by Munro Leaf, Drawings by Robert Lawson
A brisk 2 degrees F driving to work this morning, and even colder with windchill...some southern somebody pretty please enjoy some sunshine for me!
“Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the Spring and ends in the Fall is missing the best part of the whole year; for gardening begins in January with the dream.”
Today’s splendid found word, courtesy of C.S Lewis: whigmaleerie:
2. A whim, fanciful notion, a crotchet, fad, vagary (Source: Dictionary of the Scots Language)
“...I’m talking of science, not of Butler and Bergson and Shaw and all those whigmaleeries.”
-p. 49, The Dark Tower story fragment by C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
