“You can’t help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn’t spell it right; but spelling isn’t everything. There are days when spelling TUESDAY right simply doesn’t count.” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: Most of our time is spent in the company of the ordinary. Now and then we spend …
“They’re funny things, accidents. You never have them ’till you’re having them.” -Winnie-the-Pooh- journal entry: It is very good to remember that grandmas have cameras too. Oft times grandmas get wonderful photographs because they aren’t in a hurry. They aren’t thinking about the wash, or cleaning the house, or going …
“Don’t hang your hat higher than you can reach.’ -Author Unknown- journal entry: As a grandma, I wonder about other grandmas. What they do and think and how they get by. Some grandmas have what they need. Some have a little extra. Some have a lot extra. Most have what …
“We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriotic.” -Charles F. Browne- journal entry: When I was a child we had neighborhood parades. A mommy would organize it and other mommies would help. Around the 4th of July and again around the 24th of July we would celebrate …
“Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” -Joseph Addison- “Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” -Albert Schweitzer- journal entry: After church and after lunch we took a drive. We drove into the canyon and to the …
“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.” -Sophocles- journal entry: Lydia couldn’t decide. The sprinkles for her birthday cake were different colors. One color would be for today. The other color would be for another day. Who knows how her little mind was working through the problem. Pink, yellow. Yellow, pink. Pink, …
“A box without hinges, key or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.” -J.R.R. Tolkien- journal entry: What might be the treasure doesn’t really matter. What matters is a child bringing it to his mother. This keepsake photograph is all about body language and symbolism. There is such a connection …
“The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.” -Raymond Duncan- journal entry: Oh, how I love Zane. He is a mellow and kind boy. I loved his braces. They are gone now. They represented a funny place in the life of a boy . . . where everything is “in-between”. …
“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” -William Butler Yeats- journal entry: Is there anything more wonderful, under the sun, than a child? Keepsake photographs of little children show depth in the young eyes and promise in the determined lips. These are little, frank, inquisitive faces and …
“Our ordinary minds always try to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter shinier acorns, but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better- that we can become oak trees.” -E.F. …
