Little White House Warm Springs, Georgia This was another one of those unexpected stops, on a list of places I had hoped to visit, but did not quite see how I would find myself in Warm Springs, Georgia, at President Franklin Roosevelt’s Little White House. It was a stop that included Andersonville,...
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Toy Maker Here I sit waiting for my toy maker to take me from his shelf. He will wind me up and set me into motion. I will be posed and pulled. I will tilt my head and smile. Or turn around and cry. Just as my toy maker commands. I could have...
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This is a trading world and men, women and children, who cannot live on gravity alone, need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is in a business established by the Author of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without...
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is… not an object but a voice. ~ Andre Malraux ~ Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed. ~William Blake ~ Dona Isabel de Porcel by Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes, the Spanish master.
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My Ántonia By Willa Cather “Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a scholar. I could never lose myself for long among impersonal things. Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land...
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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. ~ D. H. Lawrence ~ The Archives are finally finished! I am deeply pleased to be able to offer you the opportunity to read...
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Finally Just dip your little head in Go on You will be so happy No, Do not leave Please, wait It is so hot Go back That is right Yes, you have it Go on It will be okay I promise Finally The baby ducks have found the water
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This is a trading world and men, women and children, who cannot live on gravity alone, need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is in a business established by the Author of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without...
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A View of Portland Headlight Portland Headlight, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine – the quintessential view of the rocky Maine coast. The lighthouse was actually commissioned by George Washington, and her lamps were originally lit with whale oil.
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“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.” ~ Oscar Wilde ~ My Two Secrets I have two secrets. One is that I love country music. I do not know where this came from, since I grew up in...
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