Rebecca Sower

oh where have all the good men gone?

the width of life

 

"I don't want to get to the end of my life

and find that I have just lived the length of it;

I want to have lived the width of it as well."

{ diane ackerman }

gratitude countdown { no. 03 }

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies;

but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and,

as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find,

in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

{ henry ward beecher }

gratitude countdown { no. 02 }

For each new morning with its light,

For rest and shelter of the night,

For health and food, for love and friends,

For everything Thy goodness sends.

{ ralph waldo emerson }

gratitude countdown { no. 01 }

With only a few days remaining until Thanksgiving, I thought I might stick to a gratitude theme for the next few posts, maybe with some autumn compositions from nature and some words to ponder...

"Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world,

I am deeply grateful for,

sometimes even perplexed by,

how much misery I have been spared."

{ dennis prager }

 

NOTE: Congratulations to Carolyn for being chosen as the winner of Amy's "Vintage Notions" book!  Carolyn, your book is on its way.  Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway.

summer slowdown { no. 04 }

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

{ agatha christie }

summer slowdown { no. 03 }

"Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen,

but it takes the real time

and real efforts

of real people

to learn things, make things,

turn thoughts into deeds."

{ fred rogers }

summer slowdown { no. 02 }

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed

by the things you didn't do

than by the ones you did do."

{ mark twain }

summer slowdown { no. 01 }

Family and I (and a couple of extras) are heading for the beach.  To do nothing at all.  A quiet beach hopefully, one we haven't been to before.  This year so many of us are having to plan our beach days around that dreaded oil.  So sad, all of it.

And so, as I try to do each year around this time, I will leave you with a few posts including some photographs that are my own.  And some words that are not. 

These first words special, because they come from a man who delivered his most famous speech a couple of days before I was born.  Special words from a man who 'was the change he wanted to see' in the world.  I still cry when I read that speech.

 

"Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love."
{ martin luther king jr }

Oh may I always choose to stand on the side of love...

a thought for today

Here is a work in progress . . .

And, more importantly, here are some words that I hope will speak to you as they do me...

"Family love is like the wind:

instinctive, raw, fragile, beautiful.

At times angry, but always unstoppable.

It is our collective breath.

It is the world's greatest force."

{ james mcbride }