HOMESPUN, Stories & Poetry: Recent Episodes
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“I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places” Jennifer McMahon
“Surgeons must be very careful when they take the knife Underneath their fine incisions stirs the culprit - Life “. Emily Dickenson
“A house is very much like a portrait. I cannot disconnect houses from people. The thought of arrangement, the curves and straight lines. It gives an indication of the character at the heart of it.” Christian Louboutin
“When we speak we are afraid our words won’t be heard or welcomed, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak” Audre Lorde
“A baby boy has a special way of bringing out the man in his father and the little boy in his grandfather.” – Tanya Masse
“Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections” John Piper - theologian
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
The painting is “Head on a Stem” by Odilon Redon (Fair Use)
“A small man, on a small planet, in an undistinguished corner of the Universe” -Joseph Yu
“Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration” D H Lawrence
“Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never” William Shakespeare
Confucius says “Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing; it is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator”
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning” T S Elliott
Music - Anne Murray - public domain
“I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with hand outs. I don’t believe in handouts.” Rainn Wilson
"People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?" Paula Hawkins
Background music by Micheal Rondeau
“Going by my past journey, I am not certain where life will take me, what turns and twists will happen; nobody knows where they will end up. As life changes direction, I'll flow with it.”
Katrina Kaif
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curi up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.” John Sinor
“You have to learn the rules of the game, and then you have to play better than anyone else” Albert Einstein
“And onward full tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore” Barbara Kingslover
“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you.” Rodman Philbrick
"To live in this world you must be able to do three things. To love what is mortal, to hold it against your bones knowing that your life depends on it, and when the time comes to let it go - to let it go" Mary Oliver
For those of you who have published web pages. How did your first attempts go? Did you find yourself frustrated with all the guidelines, the "easy" instructions?
"He who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it." Anais Nin
“ Maybe it won’t work out, but maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever”. Hplyrikz.com
"Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow/which weighs upon the heart" Shakespeare - Macbeth
“In the Arctic the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they’re an unbroken unity. In the winter, you travel on the ice because it’s the linkage and the easiest way, and in summer you move around on water.” John Raiston Saul
"It is not our purpose to become each other, it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other, and honour him for what he is" Hermann Hesse
"Let's just preface this by saying that stealing is bad. Don't do it. Ever. But if you had to for some nonexistent reason, do it in style." SAMMY NICKALLS
" Love is always greater than the cost - what you gain is always more than what is lost" - Alicia N. Green
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ~ Robert Frost
"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else" Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It doesn't have to be hard, enjoy the process and embrace the new beginnings" Enke Quotes
“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing is broken? - Trenton Lee Stewart
"I have again and again been faced with the mystery of love and have never been able to explain what it is." - C.G.Jung
"Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent" Mignon McLaughlin
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves” Marcel Proust
As we transition into our senior years, our memories begin to define us and bring comfort