OLD BOATS AND OLD QUOTES

Accidental Picture Taken on Board Walk

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.”

The Trumpet of Conscience; Martin Luther King Jr.

Merlin and Brother Cadfael (Caddy) Sharing a Basket and a Bath

“Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.”

Merle Shain quotes

Sunset at the Duck Walk in Sackville, New Brunswick

My life is but a weaving between my God and me, I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily. Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, and I the underside.

Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver's hand As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned. – Author Unknown

Playful Halloween Pumpkins in Sackville, New Brunswick

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

-- Winston Churchill

Saint Ann’s Anglican Church in Westcock, New Brunswick

“On surveying the landscape of life there seems to be but two choices: either capitulate to your pain and go down to certain defeat in flames, or fight it every inch of the way, knowing there will be no guarantees, but hoping that the overcoming will taste sweet enough to be worth the blood-sweating effort.”

Katherine Tapley-Milton

Harbour at Cap-Pele in New Brunswick

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth Must borrow its mirth,

It has trouble enough of its own.

Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air;

The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not want your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all;

There are none to decline Your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life's gall…

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919)

Near Five Islands in Nova Scotia

“I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.” ~Mother Teresa

Near Five Islands Nova Scotia

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~Garth Brooks

Our Rosamunde, the Beautiful Bob-Tailed Cat

“I suspect that many an ailurophobe (a person who fears or hates cats) hates cats only because he feels they are better people than he is -- more honest, more secure, more loved, more whatever he is not.” (Winifred Carriere)

Bergamot Also Called Bee Balm growing in My Garden

“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

Sunflowers at a Friend’s Camp

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

The Surf is up in the Bay of Fundy

• In depression this faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come — not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. If there is mild relief, one knows that it is only temporary; more pain will follow. It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying — or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity — but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

o Darkness Visible (1990) William Styron

Uncle George’s Blue Bottle Collection

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” -- Henry Ford

A Daffodil Explosion at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick

"Daffodils" -- by William Wordsworth 1804

I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance…

Harbour at Cap-Pele, New Brunswick

Crossing the Bar -- by Alfred Lord Tennyson 1889

Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; …

Part of My Library

“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.” Ecclesiastes 12:12 KJV

My Sister’s Garden

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.”

-- Maya Angelou

Brother Cadfael (Caddy) as a Kitten

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.” -- George Bernard Shaw

Merlin and Sir Lancelot Hanging Out

Proverbs 18:24 “… there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.”

Merlin, the King of Cats

THE GENESIS CAT (W Girt)

The Lord looked down upon His world, created fresh and new, With soaring, shining mountain tops and gleaming seas of blue. The lordly lions roaming free with tigers golden bright, All very grand, magnificent, but somehow, not quite right. He stroked His beard and mused awhile and thought of this and that, 'All these are far too big,' he said, 'I'll make a smaller cat; To edge towards the fire at night, out of the chilly wind, An independent animal, but needing human kind; With fur so soft and warm to touch, but brimming full of guile, With pansy-faced wee kittens to make the children smile.' All that was very long ago, but still the cat's with us, Aloof and condescending, but loving all the fuss. You'll never, ever own a cat, as all cat lovers know, He'll curl himself around your heart and never let you go.

Found on http://www.messybeast.com/moggycat/catprayers.htm