“The goal of all good music is to affect the soul.” - Claudio Monteverdi   For Music Saturday today one of the Scherzi Musicali (“musica...

“Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts.” - Charles Lamb   Asparagus is in season now and as we love this wonderful Spring vegetable, we oft...

“Be praised, my Lord, through our Sister Bodily Death, from whose embrace no living person can escape.” – Canticle of the Sun, St Francis...

“Only the educated are free.” - Epictetus   I am in Adelaide for work and so far it has been a very enjoyable experience. I love the par...

“And where two waging fires meet together They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” – William Shakespeare   “It Must Be Time Fo...

“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... be...

“Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.” - Erich Fromm   Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative a...

“Rest: the sweet sauce of labour” - Plutarch   A restful day today, spent indoors as the weather was not for outings. A beautiful baroqu...

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” - Mark Twain   Spring has definitely sprung in Melbourne, with the temperature climb...

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. “ - Russell Baker   The United Nations Worl...

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.” - Albert Einstein The creative meme of Magpie Tales this week has c...

“Never work with animals or children.” – WC Fields   We watched a movie on the hotel cable TV while we were away. It was not really our ...

“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.” – Johann Wolfgan...

“You know, I love the sunset when I am very sad…” – Antoine de St Exupéry   Even though the day in Perth today started out with rain an...

“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.” - Henry David Thoreau   I am in Perth for wor...

“Valour is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” - Michel de Montaigne   Saint Eustace, also known as St Eusta...

“I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it” - Albert Einstein   Magpie Tales this week has chosen Salvador ...

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first ch...

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential” - Winston Churchill   We watched an interesti...

“Everything popular is wrong.” - Oscar Wilde Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was born in Pittsburg (né Andrej Varchola,...