It’s been quite a few years since the release of America, Simon and Garfunkel’s popular tune about a young man and woman traveling by bus across country in search of the soul of America.
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When nothing is sure, everything is possible. ~ Margaret Drabble
[Image: West Virginia wildflower.]
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What is your source of perennial joy? Do you have one? What thought, memory, image, or understanding can you rely on, do you trust to rekindle the wonder and magic for life you once felt as a child?
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~ Seneca
[Image: Mums, Historical Downtown, Staunton, Virginia.]
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Our dreams will sometimes be shattered and our ethereal hopes blasted … Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
[Image: Washington DC, inscribed at the entrance of the Lincoln Memorial.]
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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. ~ Sophia Loren
[Image: Roman Imperial Forum, Italy.]
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Along Route 17 near Mount Pleasant in the region north of Charleston, South Carolina, you’ll find by the roadside small wooden shacks that contrast sharply with the skillfully crafted sweetgrass baskets displayed in them. Traditional weavers who learned the art from their ancestors sit inside, seeking shade from the hot sun while passing the time weaving their wares to the sound of cars speeding down the highway.
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~ Hindu proverb
[Image: Lillian, Louisiana]
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When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert (from her biography of naturalist Eustace Conway)
[Image: View of Whidbey Island from Port Townsend, WA.]
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