Tuesday June 4, 2019
June 4, 2019 by Cathy Doud
A world of grass and flowers stretched around me, rising and falling in gentle undulations, as if an enchanter had struck the ocean swell, and it was at rest forever…
— Eliza Steele,
“Summer Journey in the West” (1840)
Monday, June 3, 2019
June 3, 2019 by Cathy Doud
The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.
– Robert Burns
Friday, May 31, 2019
May 31, 2019 by Cathy Doud
This land has invested me with its personality…
– Linda Hasselstrom
Thursday, May 30, 2019
May 30, 2019 by Cathy Doud
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. Without courage, we can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
— Maya Angelou
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
May 29, 2019 by Cathy Doud
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain
Friday, May 24, 2019
May 24, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain
Thursday, May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 by Cathy Doud
May is a pious fraud of the almanac.
~James R. Lowell
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
May 22, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Where we love is home — home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
May 21, 2019 by Cathy Doud
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives — the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them.
— Mother Teresa
Monday, May 20, 2019
May 20, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
~Virgil A. Kraft
