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Tag Archives: Inspiration
JOY!
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.” Oliver Wendell Holmes At the close of 2014, a year of … Continue reading
A GLIMMER OF HOPE (2)
It was quite a week. Started out with the Boston Marathon bombing, continued with poison letters sent to a senator and the president, closely followed by a shameful sellout vote in the Senate against the wishes of 90% of Americans … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Food, Friendship, Personal Essay, Wisdom
Tagged Cooking, Food, Healing, Hope, Inspiration, Mothers
26 Comments
Redemption at the Mall —
Or perhaps I mean Inspiration at the Mall? Hadn’t picked up my camera in ages, had no ideas, nothing lit up or intrigued me, everything was down down down for me in the world of photography. And then I remembered … Continue reading
Posted in Color, Etcetera, Failure, Photography, Shopping
Tagged Aliens, Inspiration, Malls, Photography, Redemption, Shopping
37 Comments
An Opening Door?
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” — Helen Keller Surely she — left deaf and … Continue reading
Posted in Etcetera, Health, Mindfulness, Quotes, Wisdom
Tagged Blindness, Deafness, Encouragement, Happiness, Inspiration, Opportunity, Prosopagnosia, Wisdom
19 Comments