12 Wednesday Sep 2012
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© Joan Currie – Blue bridge in Dublin, Ireland
Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers. Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
Trying to make every parting a beautiful memory…
© Joan Currie – Morning blues – I will miss the lattes and banana bread!
© Joan Currie – My favorite antique store…
10 Monday Sep 2012
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© Joan Currie – Fusilier’s Arch, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. – Oscar Wilde
I was utterly and pleasantly seduced by all that was Dublin these last two weeks.
26 Sunday Aug 2012
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© Khrystynana Kazakova
She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.
from Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Is the love that takes your breath away too painful to bear?
25 Saturday Aug 2012
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© Joan Currie
Clutter is the poetry of our homes. it is an intimate view that is not always perfect –
a few dishes in the sink, books piled next to the bed.
Everything in its place may give a certain satisfaction,
but a lived-in room exudes comfort and warmth.
by Mary Randolph Carter
I love being at home surrounded by the poetry of a well-lived and interesting life.
“be generous” card – Danielle LaPorte.
23 Thursday Aug 2012
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© Joan Currie
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Sometimes it is better to turn around and start again.
09 Thursday Aug 2012
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The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. – Audrey Hepburn
What is it about love that makes it so wondrous, but over time, so impossible to preserve?
06 Monday Aug 2012
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© Joan Currie
When the rose is faded,
Memory may still dwell on
Her beauty shadowed,
And the sweet smell gone.
from When the Rose is Faded by Walter de la Mare
Tears came to my eyes when I found a keepsake box containing a pink sweetheart rose from my first prom corsage. It is lovely still!
30 Monday Jul 2012
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© Khrystyana Kazakova
…that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
from Ulysses by Lord Tennyson
Embrace your inner Olympian.
25 Wednesday Jul 2012
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© Joan Currie
I never heard
Of any true affection, but ’twas nipt
With care, that, like the caterpillar, eats
The leaves of the spring’s sweetest book, the rose.
by Middleton
I have a rose for every tender new dream.
19 Thursday Jul 2012
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice
how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.
Ransom Riggs
Taking less tentative steps forward…
Satin & Sand 