Doe River Gorge near Pardee Point
“To be interested in the changing seasons
is a happier state of mind
than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
George Santayana, 1863-1952
Spanish philosopher, poet, novelist
Category Archives: Hampton
Behavior
Laurel Fork Creek
“Human behavior flows from three main sources:
desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
Plato, 427-347 BCE
Worry and Fret
Old Tweetsie Railroad, Doe River Gorge
“When you find yourself facing an issue in your life,
the purpose or reason or good thing that might come out of it
being completely hidden from you—what do you do? Do you worry and fret,
become preoccupied with the problem? Do you ignore it or avoid it?
Do you complain about it, do you want to run away from it?
Or do you see it as a situation in which you might be able to experience
the power and grace of God at work? Do you watch
for the work of God that is to be done in this situation?”
Fr. John Yates
Success
Old Tweetsie Railroad, Doe River Gorge
“There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint,
and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
Bridging the Gap
Bridge on trail to Laurel Falls
“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
Phyllis Theroux,
Essayist and columnist
Easier Than You Think
Lower trail to Laurel Falls, Carter County, TN
“Life is easier than you’d think;
all that is necessary is to accept the impossible,
do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.”
Kathleen Norris
Best-selling author of The Cloister Walk,
Dakota, and Amazing Grace
The Lurking Presence of God
“Our world is saturated with grace, and the lurking presence of God is revealed not only in spirit but in matter — in a deer leaping across a meadow, in the flight of an eagle, in fire and water, in a rainbow after a summer storm, in a gentle doe streaking through a forest, in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, in a child licking a chocolate ice cream cone, in a woman with windblown hair. God intended for us to discover His loving presence in the world around us.”
Brennan Manning, Ragamuffin Gospel
author, priest, speaker
