“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” - Abraham Lincoln   A Saturday ful...

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” - Deepak Chopra   Chia is a...

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” - Albert Camus   March 21 marks the Spring Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere a...

“While I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy, exhorting any one whom I meet and sayi...

“A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.” - Rabindranath Tagore   Picasso it is today for Mag...

“Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a com...

“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.” - Willia...

“A single rose can be my garden... A single friend, my world.” Leo Buscaglia   I’m in a strange mood all day today: Sunshine and rain, ...

“The wish for healing has always been half of health." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca   Gado-Gado is an Indonesian vegetable dish, which m...

“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.” - Proverb   Today is the National Day of Grenada, an islan...

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” - Dylan Thomas   Another week, another image from Magpie Tale...

“Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.” – Dean William Inge   Last weekend we watched the 2010 Géla Babluani thri...

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.” - Saint Augustine of Hippo Francisco Bay...

“What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energ...

“Change in all things is sweet.” - Aristotle   Well, after some help of some competent computer geeks at the Apple Store, my computer p...

My computer has died and taken with it all of last week's photos and work... (Yes, I know, I should back up daily - my bad). Till the...

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.” - Aristophanes   Today is the first day of the...

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” Malcolm X   This week, Magpie Tales has se...

“As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the jo...

“The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.” - George Santayana   Bottic...