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Exhausting Week. TGIF!

It’s been an exhausting week apparently. The two cats (and me) hanging out at Mom’s while waiting for new furnace to be installed. Apparently the stresses of trying to get past each and every closed door is overwhelming. I’m counting TGIF as my one good thing for today. Sleep on cats! Continue reading

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Happy Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien

And may hope stay with us in the new year: …the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. … Continue reading

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Tip o’ the hat to James Gurney and his fine painting vlog: The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds… seeing them is a metter of the right point of view, and your painter’s eye is the special portal … Continue reading

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All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. — John Ruskin And this: It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy … Continue reading

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From the Quote Box

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither … Continue reading

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