“Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: Teaching children about Memorial Day is important. It is important to know about our country and our freedoms. It is important to know about wars and sacrifice while praying that these things will stay …
“The best place to be when you have a question is with a Grandpa.” -Author Unknown- journal entry: I say “ask your Grandpa” as much as I said “ask your Dad”. I am not sure that Grandpas know a lot more than Grandmas but they seem to know quite a …
“Make yourself necessary to someone.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson- journal entry: Peaches are fuzzy. Even when you wash them off in the hose, you still get itchy stuff on your face. Grandpa told the grandchildren that no one had to get fuzzy stuff on their faces again if they didn’t want …
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” -Henry Ford- journal entry: I have favorite photographs and this is one of them. Talmage is a child who can concentrate. He is a child who asks good questions. He …
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.” -Robert Louis Stevenson- journal entry: Who knows what a child will remember? What do I remember? What do you remember about being a child, asking a question and getting an answer? What is it about …
“Begin at the beginning and go on ’till you come to the end: then stop.” -The King in Alice in Wonderland- journal entry: Under the table or on top of the table. It doesn’t matter to me. I love to see things close. I love tiny fingers trying to stay …
“I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one!” -Edna St. Vincent Millay- journal entry: Lydia can pick this flower without disturbing the garden ! Pablo Picasso, the famous artist once said that it takes a very long time to …
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me: Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” -Mr. Rogers- journal entry: Sometimes taking photographs feels like intruding. Mothers talking softly to daughters. Explaining things. Daughters …
“A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.” -Welsh Proverb- journal entry: It was a beautiful autumn day. Holden picked an apple right off of the tree. I looked it over for worms. He rubbed it on his clothes and climbed into the chair. The …
“It is easier to build strong children than to fix broken men.” -Frederick Douglass- journal entry: Being a grandmother is much more relaxing than being a mother. Being a mother was full of joy and happiness. Being a grandmother is full of those things too without the sleep deprivation. Doing …
