Monday, Aug. 31, 2020
August 31, 2020 by Cathy Doud
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
~Dalai Lama
Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020
August 25, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Faith is not contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler’s bet: it’s an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, the old Eternal Now.
— Joanna Russ
Monday, Aug. 24, 2020
August 24, 2020 by Cathy Doud
In summer, the song sings itself.
~ William Carlos Williams
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020
August 22, 2020 by Cathy Doud
We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
— Alan Cohen
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020
August 20, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
— Coretta Scott King
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020
August 19, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
– Langston Hughes
Monday, Aug. 17, 2020
August 17, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Fairest of the months!
Ripe summer’s queen
The hey-day of the year
With robes that gleam with sunny sheen
Sweet August doth appear.
– R. Combe Miller
Friday, Aug. 14, 2020
August 14, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.
—Confucius
Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020
August 13, 2020 by Cathy Doud
A passion builds inside anyone who spends time on the prairie.
— D. Showalter
Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020
August 12, 2020 by Cathy Doud
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past.
— Indira Gandhi
