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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on October 3, 2025 | 8 comments

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? -Marie Dressler

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The other thing is quality of life; if you have a place where you can go and have a picnic with your family, it doesn’t matter if it’s a recession or not, you can include that in your quality of life. -Jim Fowler

Everybody loves a picnic in the sunshine. It was always so magical when we were kids. -Gregg Wallace

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors. -Alice Walker

Picnics turn ordinary days into extraordinary memories. -Unknown

A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable state of mind – DeeDee Stovel

A picnic is where time slows down and joy speeds up. -Unknown

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. -Bill Vaughan

See the world around you!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on September 26, 2025 | 2 comments

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving

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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. -Hosea Ballou

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. -Bob Hope

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If the world’s a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. -Lucy Larcom

See the world around you!

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A Stroll in the Garden

Posted on September 19, 2025 | 12 comments

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. -Robert Fulghum

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Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. -Paul Brunton