“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” - Helen K...

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” - Anton Chekhov Well I am happy to report the world did not end ...

“This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper.” - T.S. Eliot If you believe the media, the end of the world is approach...

“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Mark Twain   Today is the anniv...

“Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.” - George Eliot   A photograph by Andy Magee serves as the inspiration...

“Illness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.” – Edvard Munch   Edv...

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” - Indira Gandhi   Who cares about the weathe...

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook’s strongest ally.” - Laurie Colwin   It was good to come home after being aw...

“Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” - Ray Bradbury I am in Adelaide for work and the weather is quite dreadful, h...

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” – Gautama Buddha   The festival of the Hanukkah ...

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust   Magpie Tales...

“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” - Mark Twain   We watched a movie on TV the other night simply because it was...

“Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.” - Pablo Picasso Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini - December 7, 1598 – November...

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” - Russell Baker   We have experienced some very changeable weather in M...

“In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.” - Carl Sagan   For Food Friday today a classic dessert ...

“Not loving is but a long dying.” Wu of Han   The poinsettia , Euphorbia pulcherrima , is the birthday plant for today.  The generic na...

“Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his...

“When words leave off, music begins.” – Heinrich Heine   Man Ray, (born Philadelphia, PA, 25 Aug 1890; died Paris, 18 Nov 1976) was an A...

“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” - James Her...

“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.” - Milan K...