Use a gentle voice to call family members to the telephone, for dinner, or from play. Invite rather than command; anticipate cooperation rather than resistance. Be patient. Peace comes on soft wings, not in a thundering stampede. (Peace Therapy by Carol Ann Morrow)


A Photograph of my Uncle and Aunt in Europe.
Love everyone so much

Family faces are magic mirrors.

To live content with small means.... To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.... To be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich.... To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly.... To listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart.... To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.... In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common....
...........this is to be my symphony.

William Henry Channing

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