If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. - Martin Delany
Friday, May 30, 2014
Of Cats And People...
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Happy Memorial Day!
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Quote of the Day
By Henry Beston, in "The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod"
Saturday, May 10, 2014
No Safe Investment
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. I believe that the most lawless and inordinate loves are less contrary to God’s will than a self-invited and self-protective lovelessness… We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Hot Air Balloon Fiesta in Roswell
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Happy May Day
By Heinrich Heine (1779-1856)
Translation by Richard Stokes, The Book of Lieder
There is an old tradition in Germany that goes back to the 16th century: The Maypole. People all over the country decorate a tree trunk or a pole and erect it on a village green or in the center of a town. The maypole is usually erected on the last day of April and the ceremony is often preceded by a joyful procession and followed by a dance around the pole.
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