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Goodness and mercy

Elizabeth — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:24:20 +0000

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♥ Psalm 23
♥ new camera lenses (that I am chomping at the bit to try out!)
♥ 4-day work week
♥ Downton Abbey
♥ a good story
♥ clean starts
♥ I will fear no evil
♥ turning on the radio and hearing the perfect song
♥ dormant trees
♥ the gentle sound of a stream
♥ finding out how couples met
♥ beauty in the tiniest detail

Alone is OK

Elizabeth — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:08:01 +0000

Cause if you’re happy in your head then solitude is blessed and alone is okay. – Tanya Davis

I love this video. And I’ve either posted it or at least a link to it before. No matter. I wanted to share it again. This is the time of year, in the wake of celebrations and get-togethers and family and friends in and out of houses that can make you feel claustrophobic or anxious to spend time by yourself.

Or maybe you feel you have enough of that already. If so — take this. Listen. Be encouraged in your alone time. There may come a time when you want it.

P.S., The couch behind her at 3:31…I have the loveseat version of it. Bought in a used furniture store in town that used to be a church. It was in the middle of the old sanctuary, staring up at me like an open oyster shell. It doesn’t have many fans, but it fits me perfectly. And wouldn’t you know — it’s where I go to be alone.

Every writer wants to be believed

Elizabeth — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:11:30 +0000

♥ the scent of maple syrup mingling with fluffy, buttery pancakes in the morning
♥ extra blankets
♥ accepting life as it is, right now
♥ a freshly mopped floor
♥ borrowed books
♥ “Every writer wants to be believed. But every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.” – John le Carré
♥ warm sheets when the weather turns cold
♥ words spilling onto the page
♥ You are the stream, the fish, the light,
the pulsing shadow.
You the unchanging presence, in whom all
moves and changes.
How can I focus my flickering, perceive
at the fountain’s heart
the sapphire I know is there? – Denise Levertov

We cannot be young twice

Elizabeth — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:07:59 +0000

♥ We cannot be young twice; we cannot turn upon our steps, and go back to gather the garlands we gathered ten years ago. And, therefore, with a gaze over on the cross upon the distant hills, and a remembrance always of the shadow land that lies beyond, let us endeavor to be contented with small things, and to make ourselves happy in the pleasantness of simple pleasures. – Holme Lee
♥ seeing our streetlight from the sky
♥ celebrating with family
♥ the first day of Autumn
♥ reconnecting
♥ a new book that you can’t put down
♥ The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands. – Psalm 19:1
♥ painting bright colors over dark
♥ ushering in the season
♥ welcoming the chill
♥ hearing the high school marching band practice early in the morning
♥ trips back home
♥ the -ember months

In my heart I feel I’ve always known you

Elizabeth — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:20:02 +0000

♥ these words:
It is enough for me by day
To walk the same bright earth with him;
Enough that over us by night
The same great roof of stars is dim.

I have no care to bind the wind
Or set a fetter on the sea–
It is enough to feel his love
Blow by like music over me. – Sara Teasdale, “Enough”

♥ being on course
♥ finding new inspiration
♥ The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions — the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
♥ remembering what i want
♥ in your eyes are my secrets / that I’ve never shown you / in my heart I feel I’ve always known you
♥ provision
♥ divine appointments
♥ Light tomorrow with today. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
♥ God’s timing
♥ the love of a dear friend
♥ learning the impact you’ve had on the life of another
♥ Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor. – Paul Hawken
♥ true, heart friends
♥ To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others. – Gottfried Leibniz

In the wake of a storm

Elizabeth — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:40:10 +0000

♥ Who is rich? Those who are happy with their portion. – Ben Zoma
♥ much needed rain
♥ a better outlook
♥ hearing the best compliment from a parent about my husband and his teaching
♥ being shown love from the most unlikely sources
♥ His plans being greater than ours
♥ The south winds roars at night,
Curlews hasten in their flight,
The air is damp and warm.
Desire to sleep has vanished now,
Spring has arrived in the night
In the wake of a storm. – Hermann Hesse
♥ respite
♥ Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken? – Miguel de Cervantes

Clear as the dawn

Elizabeth — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:34:16 +0000

(i love this photo that i took in the Bahamas because the little white bits on the flower look like tiny stitches)

♥ I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore. – Psalm 121
♥ a dying mint plant producing a multitude of seeds
♥ “Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.” – George Eliot
♥ You say, “I am allowed to do anything” — but not everything is helpful. You say, “I am allowed to do anything” — but not everything is beneficial. – 1 Corinthians 10:23
♥ “She brings the sunshine into the house; it is now a pleasure to be there.” – Cecil Beaton
♥ the newness of day
♥ a dark, hot cup of coffee, barely sweetened
♥ Commit everything you do to the LORD. Trust him, and he will help you. He will make your innocence as clear as the dawn, and the justice of your cause will shine like the noonday sun. Be still in the presence of the LORD, and wait patiently for him to act. Don’t worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes. – Psalm 37:5-7

Tending the garden

Elizabeth — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:36:32 +0000

♥ waking up early
♥ sunrises
♥ perfect light
♥ a day spent with family
♥ true joy
♥ summer, around the corner
♥ oh, letsnotkidourselves…The Bahamas
♥ beautiful surprises
♥ wildflowers
♥ my mother’s ability to grow just about any plant
♥ the sun on my face

Pinterest: Because you need to know my favorite lip gloss shades

Elizabeth — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:25:21 +0000

The other day, Miz Booshay posted about a site called Pinterest where you can collect and group images for just about any purpose you can think of. Being that I suffer (not so quietly) with a mild case of OCD, all I could think was TAKE ME THERE NOW TO THIS CATEGORIZING PARADISE. I had to wait for an invite, but finally the day came and I was hooked, let me tell ya.

On a completely unrelated note, looking at Miz Booshay’s blog always makes me want to produce red-haired children. Not that I haven’t always wanted red-haired children anyway, her photos just make the situation all the more desperate. I mean my hair is medium-dark brown (but looks like red hot fire in the summer sun) and my husband’s hair is black. I know that somewhere between the two of us, that genetic composition is possible, but highly unlikely. Ah well.

Back to Pinterest. This thing is fab. It helps me exercise my desire to collect while preserving the density of my pocketbook. Who could say no to that?

So, if you’re on there, add me. If you’re not, you can head on over and request an invite (I might still be able to send out invites, not sure) and let the fun begin!

I thank you God…

Elizabeth — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:20:35 +0000

i thank You God for this most amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
wich is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

- e. e. cummings

(my favorite poem)

What are you thankful for today?