“How important it is for us to
recognize and celebrate
our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou, b. 1928
Monthly Archives: May 2010
People First
Jack in the Pulpit
“God puts people above traditions and regulations.”
Go By
Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum)
“Take what you can use and let the rest go by.”
Ken Kesey, 1935-2001
Author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Young
“To be 70 years young
is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be 40 years old.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894
A Portion
Yellow Mandarin, aka Fairy Bells (Disporum Ianuginosum)
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Dark
Unaka Mountains
“I would rather walk with God in the dark
than go alone in the light.”
Mary Gardiner Brainard, 1837-1905
Cannot Not
Wild Geranium
“One cannot not communicate.”
Paul Watzlawick, 1921-2007
Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher
(One of the five basic axioms in his theory of human communication)
Speak
Painted Trillium
“Silent gratitude isn’t very much use to anyone.”
Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946
Everywhere
View from Rough Ridge on Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain
“They say that God is everywhere,
and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.”
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
Let It Be
Bluets on Blue Ridge Parkway near Grandfather Mountain
“The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it.
Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us
was something we had to know.”
Rebecca Beard
Vacation
Discover You
Rue Anemone or Windflower
“You have got to discover you,
what you do, and trust it.”
Barbra Streisand, b. 1942
Gossip
Grandfather Mountain
“Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.”
Spanish Proverb
The Big Art
“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.
The big art is our life.”
M. C. Richards, 1916-1999
Poet, potter, writer
Professor at Black Mountain College in Asheville, NC
Thanks, Mom
“Motherhood comes in all shapes and sizes.
Whether you are a mother or a mother-figure,
or whether you have a mother
or many mother-figures in your life,
use this day to look around you and thank them,
and thank God for them.”
The Creative
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you’ll discover will be wonderful.
What you’ll discover will be yourself.”
Alan Alda, b. 1936
Actor
No Degrees
“Well, let me tell you, God loves us completely.
And He knew us at our worst before He ever began to love us at all.
And in the love of God there are no degrees; there is only love.”
Rich Mullins
Gumption
Dutchman’s Breeches
“Anyone who has gumption knows what it is,
and anyone who hasn’t can never know what it is.
So there is no need of defining it.”
L. M. Montgomery, 1874-1942
Anne of the Island, 1915
Advice
“Talk low, talk slow, and don’t talk too much.”
John Wayne, 1907-1979
Actor
Gratitude
“Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.
If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel,
we can find something to be thankful for.”
Terry Lynn Taylor
Risk and Value
“What you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson, b. 1959
British novelist
Falling in Love
Trillium
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it.
It is like falling in love.”
Christopher Morley, 1890-1957
American journalist, novelist, playwright
A Little More Fun
“The fact is, sometimes it’s hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes.
That’s why we need really special ones now and then
to make the walk a little more fun.”
Jenny Bicks, Sex and the City,
A Woman’s Right To Shoes, 2003
