The Summer Night – Longfellow
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07, 2020
Patriotic Quotes and Parades
In small, rural towns patriotic holidays are parade days. With COVID-19 running rampant, there might not be so many parades this 4th of July weekend. That’s why I’m sharing this meme. That’s hubby-dear carrying the U.S. flag.
~~Post originally appeared on “View from the Front Porch” July 12, 2017
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06, 2020
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05, 2020
May Flower Quotes – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
About the Graphic
Hubby Dear snapped this picture of a Texas Star Hibiscus with our digital camera. He has an excellent eye for capturing floral images. Don’t you think?
About the Quote
The word amen is a Hebrew word used frequently in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. According to Bible Study Tools, the verb form is found more than one hundred times in the Old Testament and nearly seventy times in the Gospels.The Common English translations are “surely”, “truly”, and “so be it.”
People around the world say the world in personal prayer and the liturgy, affirming what is spoken or prayed. I like to think, like Holmes, that Nature also says amen or so be it with every bloom.
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05, 2020
Be Happy
About the graphic
The gorgeous yellow roses are a picture of my Valentine’s Day gift from hubby dear. You can read the whole story of the blooms here.
About the quote
After so many days in quarantine, we probably all need to follow Rita Moreno’s advice. Find something and be happy. Only, instead of coffee, make mine a cuppa tea.
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05, 2020
Flowers – Food for the Soul
About the Graphic
I spotted these little Blue Bonnets on a walk in my neighborhood. Not bad for a cell phone picture. I’m hoping the little bluebonnets will spread all along the street.
About the Quote
I spotted this quote in the April issue of Martha Stewart’s Living magazine. Spring flowers always bring a smile to my lips and I think Botanist Burbank is so correct. Flowers are food for the soul.
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04, 2020
Choosing Hope – Reeve
About the graphic
I found this Pixabay photo on Pexels. It was a perfect match for the Christopher Reeve quote I love.
About the quote
Christopher Reeve was the star of the 1978 version of the Superman and subsequent sequels. But he wanted to do more substantive work, which he did as well as direct and write. In 1995 he suffered a spinal injury in an equestrian competition and he and his wife became major advocates for spinal cord injury victims.
The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, now run by their children, is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury by funding innovative research, and improving the quality of life for people living with paralysis through grants, information, and advocacy.
Read more about this amazing real life Superman here. Once you know more about him, you’ll see he never gave up choosing instead to hope.
Hope leads to possibilities. We should always choose hope.
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04, 2020
Finding Hope – Tutu
About the graphic
The background is a photo by NEOSiAM 2020 I found on Pexels, a great website for free graphics.
The dark rolling clouds depict what I feel most days while sheltering-in-place during this dark COVID19 pandemic.
About the quote
Desmund Tutu is a South African Anglican cleric and theologian. In 1986 he received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in opposition to apartheid. In 2009 he was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom. His life has been about peace and hope and truth.
This quote seemed a perfect fit for the photo. The white light represents the hope and peace Tutu taught.
Personally I need to look on that circle of light (hope) and pray it grows wider. How about you?