“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” - Psalm 118:24   Easter Saturday and the day was devoted ...

“My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.” - Amy Sedaris   Great Thursday of the Holy Week in ...

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” - Khalil Gibran   In 2013, Greek Orthodox Easter falls on Sunday May...

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wro...

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” - Albert Einstein   I must confess that like any one of us I have my faults. One a...

“Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.” – Henri-Frédéric Amiel   The Australian landscape painter Sir Arthur Ernest Streeton (18...

“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed p...

“Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook” – Chinese Proverb   Autumn is with us and there is a wealth of autumn vegetable...

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” - Blaise Pascal   Today is St Mark’s Feas...

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” - H. G. Wells   With Anzac Day coming around again this year it was distressing to hear that som...

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.” - Thomas Jefferson   I am in Adelaide for work and it is quite pleasa...

“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.” - Malcolm X   I m...

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” -  Plato   I have already featured Leonardo da Vinci previously in this blog for Art Sunday, h...

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: Chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.” – Aristotle   ...

“To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.” -   Gautama Buddha   A ...

“Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.” - Colleen C. Barrett   I am in Brisbane for work and it has b...

“My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered...

“‎An artist is, by nature, someone very sensitive, who expresses with talent the pains that he has suffered. He uses art to replace the c...

“In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.” - Tacitus   We watched another of the mindless, pure entertainment, a...

“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!” - Friedrich Nietzsche   Art Sunday is dedi...