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For centuries, the air was full of witches
Whistling up chimneys
on their spiky brooms
cackling or singing more sweetly than Circe,
as they flew over rooftops
blessing & cursing their
kind.
-Erica Jong #FairyTaleTuesday
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming. -Melody Carlson
"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine." ~ Eduardo Galeano #NationalWineDay
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door." ~ Coco Chanel
The spring is fresh and fearless
And every leaf is new,
The world is brimmed with moonlight,
The lilac brimmed with dew.
Here in the moving shadows
I catch my breath and sing--
My heart is fresh and fearless
And over-brimmed with spring.
-Sara Teasdale
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.”
― William Shakespeare
My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Dale
And will rise and dress your rooms
With a drapery thick with blooms.
Come, ye rains, then if ye will,
May’s at home, and with me still;
But come rather, thou, good weather,
And find us in the fields together.
-Leigh Hunt
Little birds inhabit there, simple townsmen all—
Jewelled things no bigger than a bee;
And the opal butterflies plane and settle, flare and rise,
Through the low-arched greenery,
(That is malachite and jade of the sea.)
-Rudyard Kipling
“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
― Terry Pratchett