Judith Browning

Practice not causing harm to anyone, yourself or others,
and everyday do what you can to be helpful.

Pema Chodron

thank you so much Reiner!
I'm sorry I didn't see this back when you wrote it...very helpful information.

We are still heating water in a kettle on the cook stove and ignoring the 'on demand' hanging there useless on the wall ....I've even looked into 'point of use' water heaters but I think we are satisfied with this system for now until we aren't able to carry kettles of boiling water to the tub to fill a bucket for a dipper bath weekly winter time.  Summers are cold showers and heating dish water is easy.

May such calm of soul be mine,
so as to meet the force
of circumstances.

Aeschylus
(525-465 BCE Greek poet, playwright, philosopher)

Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another,
listening with the ears of another,
and feeling with the heart of another.

Alfred Adler
(1870-1937, Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist,
founder of the school of individual psychology)

Great to see you back Maureen!
Looking forward to hearing about this new adventure😊

FRIENDSHIP is a mirror to presence and a testament to forgiveness.  
Friendship not only helps us see ourselves through another’s eyes, but can be sustained over the years only with someone who has repeatedly forgiven us for our trespasses as we must find it in ourselves to forgive them in turn.
A friend knows our difficulties and shadows and remains in sight, a companion to our vulnerabilities more than our triumphs, when we are under the strange illusion we do not need them.
An undercurrent of real friendship is a blessing exactly because its elemental form is rediscovered again and again through understanding and mercy.
All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.
Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.

David Whyte
poet and philosopher

and it looked like you did everything right to give the seeds a fighting chance!
Did you mean nothing in the mix came up or just none of the grains?
Birds ate all of my wheat one year and mice maybe?

Seems like the clovers would have made it and radishes?

Our ability
to reach unity in diversity
will be the beauty and the test
of our civilization.

Mahatma Gandhi
(1869-1948, Spiritual Teacher and Political Leader)

I'm thoroughly enjoying Harlen Hubbard's first Shanty boat book 'a river way of life'.
Thank you so much for this thread about them JP.

I can't believe Steve and I had never read any of his books nor were aware of he and Anna.
The forward by Wendell Berry is priceless!

Hope is a state of mind,
not of the world.
Either we have hope within or we don't;
it is a dimension of the soul
not essentially dependent
on some particular observation of the world
or estimate of the situation.
It is an orientation of the spirit,
an orientation of the heart;
it transcends the world
that is immediately experienced
and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons.

Vaclav Havel
(1936 to 2011, Czech playwright, dissident, president)