“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that ...

“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.” - Luke 23:46 Today is Good Friday for the Western churches (Orthodox Good Friday is on the 25...

“I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.” - Arthur C. Clarke Do you believe in Astrology? I am int...

“Home is where the heart is.” - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) How welcome a sight one’s home is after one has been away. No matte...

“Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” - Seneca Brisbane is a thriving, modern, metropolitan centre and capital of the...

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.” - Aristotle Happy St Patrick’s Day! Saint Patrick’s Day is a predominantly Iri...

Rivera was in the United States from 1930 to 1934, where he painted murals for the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1931), t...

In 1923 he began painting the walls of the Ministry of Public Education building in Mexico City, working in fresco and completing the commis...

“Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: The thing you cannot explain.” - Georges Braque For Art...

“Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtu...

“What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.” – Lucretius I am in Brisbane for work today and it has certainly been a very tiring week ...

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another” – Plato Today’s birthday plant is the ivy flowerheads ,...

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” G. K. Chesterton http://en.wi...

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.” – Roald Dahl I have just finished a collection of short stories by Roald Dah...

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” - Seneca We watched a very curious film, today. It was Michael Polish’s...

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.” - Victor Hugo Tyrrhiné Sunday (meaning “Cheese Sunday”) in the Greek Ort...

“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton This i...

“Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. 
And cooking done with care is an act of love.” 
 Craig Claiborne One of the memories I...

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” – Abigail Adams The ragged robin , Ly...

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.” - Oscar Wilde Oh, heady days when our brain...