Today’s Quote on Love by. Tennyson

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If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Enjoy a Music Moment with Tina Turner & Mick Jagger Performing “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll (But I like It)

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Bringing Peace ~ Poem by Thich Nhat Hahn

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Walk and touch peace every moment.
Walk and touch happiness every moment.
Each step brings a fresh breeze.
Each step makes a flower bloom.
Kiss the Earth with your feet.
Bring the Earth your love and happiness.
The Earth will be safe
when we feel safe in ourselves.

– Thich Nhat Hahn

Today’s Quote by Napoleon on Courage

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Until you spread your wings, you’ll have no idea how far you can fly.

Napoleon 

Hope ~ Poem by Emily Dickinson

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land
And on the strangest sea,
Yet never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

– Emily Dickinson

Enjoy a Music Moment with Abba Performing “Dancing Queen”

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Today’s Quote by Thomas Carlyle on Life

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

Enjoy a Music Moment with Van Morrison Performing “Brown Eyed Girl”

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A Lesson & A Smile

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The Crimson Candle*

A man lying at the point of death called his wife to his bedside and said:

“I am about to leave you forever; give me, therefore, one last proof of your affection and fidelity, for, according to our holy religion, a married man seeking admittance at the gate of Heaven is required to swear that he has never defiled himself with an unworthy woman.  In my desk you will find a crimson candle, which has been blessed by the High Priest and has a peculiar mystical significance.  Swear to me that while it is in existence you will not remarry.”

The Woman swore and the Man died.  At the funeral the Woman stood at the head of the bier, holding a lighted crimson candle till it was wasted entirely away.

*Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce. Transcribed from the 1899 G. P. Putnam’s Sons edition by David Pric

The Truth ~ Poem by Emily Dickinson

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The Truth

The Truth — is stirless –
Other force — may be presumed to move –
This — then — is best for confidence –
When oldest Cedars swerve –

And Oaks untwist their fists –
And Mountains — feeble — lean –
How excellent a Body, that
Stands without a Bone –

How vigorous a Force
That holds without a Prop –
Truth stays Herself — and every man
That trusts Her — boldly up –

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