Steven, Henri & Marty

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It’s Saturday morning and I’m reading Steven Givens blog, “Life and Death on Display: Midwinter at the Missouri Botanical Garden.” His blogs are always interesting, inspiring and full of beautiful photos. Today’s blog included information on George Washington Carver.

Quotes worth reading and spending time meditating on.

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

"No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it." 

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They called the winter storm Gia. She brought the wind, the snow and the cold. But we were spared as she bypassed us bringing 

light snow and icing conditions on Sunday morning.

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A view from my window, ice on the trees.

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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” 

Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

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Calvin and Paul Gauguin

From Pinterest

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I'm reading the last book in "The Lord Of The Rings” trilogy.

“Part Three, The Return Of The King."

This book has held up quite well. None of the pages are loose. However, as I read it there could be some surprises.

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Marty Robbins - “El Paso”

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