Monday, Jan. 6, 2020
January 6, 2020 by Cathy Doud
The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. Minute by minute they lengthen out. It takes some weeks before we become aware of the change. It is imperceptible even as the growth of a child, as you watch it day by day, until the moment comes when with a start of delighted surprise we realize that we can stay out of doors in a twilight lasting for another quarter of a precious hour.
— Vita Sackville-West
Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020
January 2, 2020 by Cathy Doud
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
— Stanley Horowitz
Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019
December 31, 2019 by Cathy Doud
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.
— John Burroughs
Monday, Dec. 30, 2019
December 30, 2019 by Cathy Doud
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
~William Blake
Friday, Dec. 27, 2019
December 27, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
~Martin Luther King Jr.
Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019
December 26, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~Washington Irving
Christmas Day, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2019
December 25, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
~Author unknown, attributed to a 7-year-old named Bobby
Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019
December 24, 2019 by Cathy Doud
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year – and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
~W.J. Cameron
Monday, Dec. 23, 2019
December 23, 2019 by Cathy Doud
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.
— Swami Rama
Friday, Dec. 20, 2019
December 20, 2019 by Cathy Doud
“I heard a bird sing
In the dark of December
A magical thing
And sweet to remember.”
— Oliver Herford, I Heard a Bird Sing
