Category: Insight Quotes
The Garden Muse Wisdom: Do This When Snowed Under
The stone garden muse has been literally snowed under and so have I: on every level. Buried with work and piles of papers, laundry and snow growing is this winter’s metaphor. It was time to dr... Read More
Roosevelt’s Advice On President’s Day
One of my favorite “can do” quotes is by Theodore Roosevelt and his advice fits President’s Day or any other day. Life, conditions and reality is never perfect. It’s bitterly c... Read More
Memories and Backdoor Thieves
One of my favorite long time readers disappeared during the unfortunate blog migration and he emailed me recently to see how I was doing. I guess he missed the email about the changes. Countless other... Read More
Monday Motivation: New York Blizzard
We were late putting away the lawn furniture this year. So late we figured why not leave a couple of chairs to measure snow accumulation. For fun. This was sn... Read More
The Past is Never Dead
One of the reasons I love old crumbling artifacts and architecture, worn stones and yellowed pages, is they remind me that the past is never dead, as the Faulkner quote goes. Even when they’re d... Read More
Say No to New Year Resolutions. Do This Instead.
Did you know 92% of New Years resolutions fail? Why begin something new with those kinds of odds of failing? No one needs another reason to beat themselves up. There’s no question goals of every... Read More
Peace, Angels and Diamonds
How many angels can dance on the end of a pin? How many photo quotes on peace before Christmas? Maybe Uncle Vanya knows. This quote is from his monologue in the play by Chekhov. Maybe not the most c... Read More
Don’t Feed Your Inner Grinch
The holiday spirit was being siphoned off by my inner Grinch. Not that there is anything wrong with being a Grinch. It beat smiling a phony ho, ho, ho and isn’t it the most wonderful time of the... Read More