“Grief is the price we pay for love” - Elizabeth II I have just come back from my open window after looking at the moon. It has start...

“A householder must give as much food as he is able to spare to those who do not cook for themselves, and to all beings one must distr...

“The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it....

“Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and [of that] which they ha...

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.” - Joyce Carol Oates Magpie Tales has presented an image that stimula...

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tal...

“The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time” – William For Art Sunday today, a painting by David Boyd (1924 - 2011). David...

“When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in worship of the Creator” - Mahatma Gandhi We’ve h...

“My salad days, when I was green in judgment…” - William Shakespeare Another tiring day at work with quite a lot happening. Even if I...

“A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting” - Abraham Maslow Magpie Tales inspires today with soup. Bob Adelman’s 1965...

“Today is an ephemeral ghost... A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not exis...

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction” - Winston Churchill These days at work tend to be very busy, co...

“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.” - Jean P.F Richter Lent is the period o...