“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.” - Johannes Sebastian Bach   I sat in the garden today a...

“Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.” - Wallace Stevens   We are enjoying some summer weather, intermittently that is, with som...

“…So when the last and dreadful hour; This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the l...

“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” - Thomas Tusser The birthday flower for today is the Chri...

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” - Khalil Gibran   Yesterday we watched the Tarsem Singh 2012 movie “Mirror, Mirror”  ...

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” - Dr. Seuss Gerard David, (born c. 1460, Oudewater, Netherlands – died...

“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...