My blog side gadgets...

I have some side gadgets on my blog that never show up in the printing.  I have decided to include them here.

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Pablo Picasso

"Keep close to Nature's heart...break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." -- John Muir

There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one.

Wilderness is not a luxury, but a necessity for the human spirit!  -- Edward Abbey

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. 
-- Robert Lewis Stevenson

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. -- John Muir

Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written. -- Ether 2:12

...all things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator. -- Alma 30:44

Love -- Real love stories never have endings.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Being happy...

doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you decide to see beyond the imperfections.


Little drops of water, little grains of sand...

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
-- Mother Teresa

Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.