Quote of the day: “How difficult it is to be simple.” — Vincent Van Gogh After the heavy rain yesterday we awoke to a blanket of fog muffling the morning sun. As I drove to a meeting this morning I noticed the beauty of the fog over Medicine Lake. The Read more…
Quote of the day: “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” ― Claude Monet While visiting my daughter’s family who live in the Kansas City area, we visited the Overland Park Arboretum. I was thrilled Read more…
Quote of the day: “Thomas Merton wrote, “there is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.” There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so Read more…
Quote of the day: To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. − William Blake Today I spent part of the morning at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum visiting the Read more…
Quote of the day: “Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.” ― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things The first day of the rain I laughed and was Read more…