“Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables” - Sappho A quiet day today and an even quieter evening tonight. For Music Saturday, so...

“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.” - William...

“It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou co...

“Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.” - Abraham Lincoln For Poetry Wednesday today, Yannis Ritsos (1909–90), a G...

“To me the ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disor...

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet van Horne I was in Brisbane today for work and it...

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” - Henry Miller
 For Art Sunda...

“It’s so curious: One can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign beh...

“Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time ...

“All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good...

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” - James Oppenheim I was reflecting on the meaning of...

“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” - Sydney J. Harris I am in Adelaide today for work. We have had a site ...

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” - William Congreve We saw a wonderful French film ...

“One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.” - Mark Stevens For Art Sunday to...

“One often calms one's grief by recounting it.” - Pierre Corneille I am in a rather melancholy mood tonight and usually Bach is what ...

“If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.” - Terri Guillemets Our orange tree is laden with wonderful, ripe, brigh...

“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only dif...

“Most men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.” – Montesquieu It is Bastille Day today, the National Day of France. Fran...

“You are invited to the festival of this world and your life is blessed” - Rabindranath Tagore Obon is one of the most important cultural...

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope alwa...