by Susan | Oct 25, 2023 | essay, inspiration
If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the...
by Susan | Aug 3, 2023 | birthdays, inspiration
August 3, 1858 Paul Sabatier “Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.” August 3, 1920...
by Susan | Jun 11, 2023 | birthdays, inspiration
June 11, 1880 Jeannette Rankin “What one decides to do in crisis depends on one’s philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn’t any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.” June 11, 1959 Hugh...
by Susan | Apr 1, 2023 | inspiration, poem
Leave the dishes. Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator and an earthen scum harden on the kitchen floor. Leave the black crumbs in the bottom of the toaster. Throw the cracked bowl out and don’t patch the cup. Don’t patch anything....
by Susan | Feb 28, 2023 | birthdays, inspiration
February 28, 1533 Michel de Montaigne “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.” February 28, 1865 Wilfred Grenfell “The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on...
by Susan | Feb 27, 2023 | birthdays, inspiration
February 27, 1861 Rudolf Steiner “A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its reflection, and when, in the whole community, the virtue of each one is living.” February 27, 1886 Hugo Black “A...
