June Meditation

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine." -  Thomas Jefferson 

June Meditation

-  Pam Brown 

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." -  Pam Brown 

June Meditation

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." -  Aristotle

June Meditation

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." -  Marcel Proust 

May Meditation

The the last word in ignorance is when a man says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?"

May Meditation

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall

May Meditation

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you.  And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Peace Pilgrim

May Meditation

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

John Muir

April Meditation

"We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical." ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

April Meditation

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy."
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

March Meditation

That is one good thing about this world....there are always sure to be more springs.

L.M.Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

March Meditation

It is spring again.  The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

Rainer Maria Rilke

March Meditation

Come with me into the woods where spring is
advancing, as it does, no matter what,
not being singular or particular, but one
of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.

Mary Oliver

February Meditations

The real things haven't changed.  It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

February Meditations

Laura felt a warmth inside her.  It was very small but it was strong.  It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low, but no wind could make it flicker because it would not give up.

Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

February Meditations

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things that matter after all.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Meditation

A room without books is like a body without a soul.  
     Marcus Tullius Cicero

January Meditation

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they are organized for.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

January Meditation

Home is the nicest word there is.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

January Meditation

It is ak good thing sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our everyday duties.  It keeps them from being tiresome; besides, others are apt to take us at our own valuation.

Laura Ingalls Wilder