Monday, Oct. 11, 2021
October 11, 2021 by Cathy Doud
On the prairie, what you are left with is the bare truth, the land pared down to the bone, the basic dirt and grass and sky that shape the lives that play out upon it.
– Tom Groneberg, “The Secret Life of Cowboys”
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021
October 10, 2021 by Cathy Doud
You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin…. We eagerly anticipate it every year.
— Fearless Flyer, October 2010
Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021
October 9, 2021 by Cathy Doud
How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
~John Burroughs
Friday, Oct. 8, 2021
October 8, 2021 by Cathy Doud
When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.
~Author Unknown
Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021
October 7, 2021 by Cathy Doud
Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
– Samuel Butler
Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021
October 5, 2021 by Cathy Doud
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
— Lao Tzu
Monday, Oct. 4, 2021
October 4, 2021 by Cathy Doud
In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
~Albert Schweitzer
Monday, Sept. 27, 2021
September 27, 2021 by Cathy Doud
“No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.”
– Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode
Friday, Sept. 24, 2021
September 24, 2021 by Cathy Doud
Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.
— M Scott Peck
Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021
September 23, 2021 by Cathy Doud
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind is bracing, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
– John Ruskin
