A Perfume of Their Own

A  L  O  H  A !

"Life itself is the most 

wonderful fairy tale."

   Hans Christian Andersen

“Everybody is talented because 

everybody who is human 

has something to express.” 

 Brenda Ueland

“The unnatural and the strange 

have a perfume of their own.” 

                     Fernando Pessoa

“Oh, listen. Listen!' 

A sound like a big crowd a good way off, 

excited and shouting, getting closer. 

We stand up and scan the empty sky. 

Suddenly there they are (the geese), 

a wavering V headed directly over 

the hilltop, quite low, beating southward 

down the central flyway and talking as they pass. 

We stay quiet suspending our human conversation until their garrulity fades and their wavering lines are invisible in the sky.

They have passed over us like an eraser over a blackboard, wiping away whatever was there before they came.” 

                   Wallace Stegner

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Please Cross Carefully

A  L  O  H  A !

Merganser & Golden Eye

"However beautiful the strategy, 

you should occasionally 

look at the results."

      W. Churchill

 "The way we choose 

to see the world 

creates the world 

we see." 

               Barry Neil Kaufman

"The moment you accept 

what troubles you've been given, 

the door will open."

          Rumi

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Wednesday Around The World

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Sunday Says 🌞

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“Sunday is the golden clasp 

that binds together the 

volume of the week.” 

        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Sunday is a day just for you.” 

    Anthony T. Hincks

“Sundays are like confetti 

floating in the air 

in slow motion, 

in the evening they 

reach the ground and 

you hope a bit of wind 

could blow on them 

so they could fly 

a bit longer.” 

        Alain Bremond-Torrent

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“Sunday owes its existence to the other days in the week.” 

Anthony T. Hincks

Look Upon Beautiful

A  L  O  H  A !

“Politeness [is] a 

sign of dignity, 

not subservience.” 

           Theodore Roosevelt

"Reckless words 

pierce like a sword,

but the tongue of the 

wise brings healing."

Book of Proverbs 12:18

"I think I will be able to, 

in the end, rise above the 

clouds and climb the stairs 

to Heaven, and I will look 

down on my beautiful life."

               Yayoi Kusama

"Only I can change my life. 

No one can do it for me."

   Carol Burnett

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Weekend Reflections

Shadow Shot Sunday

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One Million Realities

A  L  O  H  A !

"Learning how to 

operate a soul 

figures to take time."

          Timothy Leary

"Kindness is the best 

quality of the soul."

           Chinese Proverb

"A solitary fantasy 

can totally transform 

one million realities." 

               Maya Angelou

"Happiness cannot be 

traveled to, owned, earned, 

worn or consumed. 

Happiness is the spiritual 

experience of living every 

minute with love, 

grace and gratitude."

            Denis Waitley

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Tissue Paper Dragons

A  L  O  H  A !

"Many of our fears are 

tissue paper-thin, and a

single courageous step 

would carry us

through them."

            Brendan Francis

"Elegance is a 

glowing inner peace. 

Grace is an ability to give 

as well as to receive 

and be thankful. -

- Mystery is a hidden laugh 

always ready to surface! 

Glamour only radiates if 

there is a sublime courage 

& bravery within. . . ” 

          C. JoyBell C.

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Absence of Striving

A  L  O  H  A !

"How could the drops of 

water know themselves 

to be a river? 

Yet the 

river flows on."

          Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

"Practice doesn't make perfect -

- if you're doing it wrong."

                   Frank Sonnenberg 

“Happiness is 

the absence of 

the striving for 

happiness.” 

             Zhuangzi

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Duckling Season

A  L  O  H  A !

"I never dreamed

 of such happiness 

as this, while I was 

an ugly duckling."

                            Hans Christian Andersen

"Whatever the present 

moment contains, 

accept it as if you 

had chosen it. 

Always work with it, 

not against it." 

                           Eckhart Tolle

"Elegance is not 

about being noticed. 

It's about being 

remembered."

                               Giorgio Armani

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Repeat Customers

A  L  O  H  A !

They're  Back!

" These people have 

learned not from books, 

but in the fields, in the wood, 

on the river bank. -

                               ”

- Their teachers have been 

the birds themselves, 

when they sang to them,  

the sun when it left 

a glow of crimson 

behind it at setting, 

the very trees, 

and wild herbs.” 

                      Anton Chekhov

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" Superior people never 
make long visits."
                     Marianne Moore's Father

“Only in the agony 

of parting do we 

look into the

 depths of love.” 

                          George Eliot

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Bigger Than Ever

A  L  O  H  A !

PHOTOS LOOK BETTER ENLARGED

 Dawn #22965, Marin CA

"Nothing is a waste of 

time if you use the 

experience wisely."

                         Auguste Rodin 

 Cormorant

"Animation is not the 

art of drawings that move 

but the art of movements 

that are drawn."

                      Norman McLaren

 Little Green Heron

"Celebrate the small things 

and our lives become 

bigger than ever."

                             Tim Fargo 

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I'd Rather Be Birdin`

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Watch Me Fly

A  L  O  H  A !

“You have the freedom 

to be yourself, 

your true self, here 

and now, and nothing can 

stand in your way."

                                      Richard Bach, 

                                                   Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“Jonathan Seagull discovered 

that boredom and fear and

anger are the reasons that 

a gull's life is so short,

 and with those gone 

from his thought, 

he lived a long 

fine life indeed.” 

                            Richard Bach, 

                                    Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“I have come to accept the feeling 

of not knowing where I am going.

 And I have trained myself 

to love it. Because it is only

 when we are suspended in 

mid-air with no landing in sight, 

that we force our wings to unravel 

and alas begin our flight. -

- And as we fly, we 

still may not know where 

we are going to. But the 

miracle is in the unfolding 

of the wings. You may not know 

where you're going, but you know 

that so long as you spread 

your wings, the winds 

will carry you.” 

                                   C. JoyBell C.

“Keep working on love.” 

                               Richard Bach

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