Antennae for droplets of received wisdom

Tuesday, December 31, 2013


"What we call the beginning is often the end.  And to make an end is to make a beginning.  The end is
 where we start from." - T.S. Eliot



Monday, December 30, 2013


"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."  - Robert Louis Stevenson

Sunday, December 29, 2013


"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."  
-Leo Aikman

Saturday, December 28, 2013


"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton


Friday, December 27, 2013


"The more you dance, the more you become aware that you are the dance.  To touch this presence that you are, is the priority in your life. Nothing is more important, nothing easier, nothing more rewarding, safer or comforting."  - Michaela

Thursday, December 26, 2013

“In chaos, there is fertility.” -Anais Nin




Monday, December 23, 2013

What is Love?

Love is the forgetfulness of self.


Saturday, December 21, 2013

Friday, December 20, 2013

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." 
- Hamilton Wright Mabie




Thursday, December 19, 2013


"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year 
for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." - Laura Ingalls Wilder


Tuesday, December 17, 2013


These 2 dogs were playing in the mud; they had slightly different experiences : ) 


Monday, December 16, 2013


“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” 
- Socrates

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Home Is Where The Heart Is...

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Saturday, December 14, 2013


"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."  
-Helen Keller

Friday, December 13, 2013


Humans are like snowflakes, no two are alike…

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." - Theodore Roosevelt


Thursday, December 12, 2013

'Tis The Season

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
-- Harlan Miller

Photo by Heather Clawson

Wednesday, December 11, 2013


"The course of true love never did run smooth." - William Shakespeare

Tuesday, December 10, 2013




"If the only prayer you say in your entire life is 'Thank you," that would suffice."

-Meister Eckhart (1260-c.1320)

Sunday, December 8, 2013


Space and light and order. Those are the things that people need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
— Le Corbusier

Friday, December 6, 2013


"Life is a ride of happy trails and bucking horses. All of us have a singularly exclusive, unique trip. Like snowflakes, no two are alike."

Thursday, December 5, 2013


"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." 
- Nelson Mandela, 1918-2013

Have Less, Do More

 "...Possessions are nice, but they rust, rot, get stolen and burn in fires.  Experiences can’t be taken from us.  
They have eternal value."
- Excerpts from Becoming Minimalist

Wednesday, December 4, 2013


“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” - Picasso

Tuesday, December 3, 2013



Everything important in life is like this—here one moment and gone the next. All we have are these moments, and what we choose to do with them is what we choose to do with our lives. We can miss or relish every one.
-Jeff Goins, The In Between



Monday, December 2, 2013


"Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it."  - Alexandra David-Neel


Sunday, December 1, 2013

What, you ask, is the beginning of it all?

And it is this 
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being and plunged into 
numberless trillions of forms so that it might find itself innumerably. - sri aurobindo

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