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A Man’s Education…

01 Wednesday Feb 2012

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© Joan Currie – Seated Student sketch

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as is his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. – Emerson

A diligent student at work…

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Our best days in the year…

31 Saturday Dec 2011

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© Joan Currie - My Copper & Stainless Steel Journal

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. – Emerson

My journal is filled with wonderful memories of this year.
Wishing you and your loved ones all the very best for 2012!

Loves Gone…

30 Friday Dec 2011

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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
from What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

But what a song it was – it mattered not how short!

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Nutcracker…

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Music is indeed the most beautiful of all Heaven’s gifts to humanity wandering in the darkness. Alone it calms, enlightens, and stills our souls. – Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky’s score for the Nutcracker ballet is my favorite music of the holiday along with a dozen classic carols.

Gingerbread House…

18 Sunday Dec 2011

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Have a holly, jolly Christmas,
It’s the best time of the year,
I don’t know if there’ll be snow,
But have a cup of cheer.
A Holly Jolly Christmas by Johnny Marks – sung by Michael Bublé

Voilà – this year’s gingerbread house thanks to very thick royal frosting!

Photo: James Currie

Broken Heart…

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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D. H. Lawrence, Heartbreak, Lauren DiMarco, Photography, postaweek 2011

© Lauren DiMarco

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken.
It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.
D.H. Lawrence

One heartbreak is enough – I do not wish for another.

Christmas Finery…

04 Sunday Dec 2011

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© Joan Currie

For a moment Anne’s heart fluttered queerly and for the first time her eyes
faltered under Gilbert’s gaze and a rosy flush stained the paleness of her face.

from Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery 

I always have great hopes for a romantic holiday season.

Autumn Cherub…

26 Saturday Nov 2011

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The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry’s cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.
The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I’ll put a trinket on.
by Emily Dickinson – Autumn 

My garden cherub beholds fall’s dramatic show of color.

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Thanksgiving…

23 Wednesday Nov 2011

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© Joan Currie

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty? And yet it all seems limitless.
from The Sheltering Sky movie, based on the book by Paul Bowles

Thanksgiving is almost upon us – savor every sweet moment of it.

I Love…

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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© Lauren DiMarco

I’ll love you til the ocean
Is folded and hung to dry,
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden 

I think I love too much.

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