Quote of the Week- What will I start?

Oh, Kurt, how I love you.

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Quote of the Week- Life is Art

Love this month because people tend to have creative ideas on their mind leading into Halloween. Also, with instagram and snapchat, we are all documenting and representing ourselves more than ever. How can we reinsert more creativity and making into our lives by cutting down our shopping?

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Quote of the Week- A Baby

I know I am not posting much! We have reached the end of my pre-posting, and I think I have a lot of weeks of uselessness ahead of me. Please be patient! I know you can barely survive without some straw-ranting!

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Quote of the Week- Call Your Mother

I got to spend the weekend with my wonderful, badass, sweet angel of a mother. Hope you all had a great weekend as well!

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Quote of the Week- What are you Doing

Like so many of us, I have trouble not thinking about the election and how incredibly hateful and nasty political discourse has been this year. It is genuinely scary, especially to be bringing a baby into this kind of climate. I have been looking for things that remind me of the best of what we are instead of reading so much about the worst (time to put a "Trump" filter on my newsfeed?). Hope this inspires you like it does me- can you imagine how different the world could be if we all put our energy into helping instead of convincing ourselves that the other guy doesn't need help?

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Quote of the Week- Quantity is not Abundance

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Quote of the Week- Borrowing our World

This quote is the heart of this blog and has been on my mind even more these last few weeks. Everything we do can either make the world a little bit better or a little bit worse for the people who come after us, many of which we love. I would just like to make the world a teensy, tiny bit better.

Hope you all have a positive week and that we all take the opportunities to do a little better, be a little kinder, and hopefully get to know a stranger.

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Quote of the Week- America

We are getting ready to celebrate the 4th, and maybe you are too. Have been thinking a lot about what makes America great, and I love this quote. Hope everyone has a great week!

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Quote of the Week- Stopping to Help

Feeling broken-hearted today, like I think most of us are. Dreading that there is always work to be done, but feeling encouraged by this:

Also, this one. 

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ~Mother Teresa

Just want you to know whatever little things you are doing to help the world do make a difference, and let's all do one more. If nothing else, let's all go meet a neighbor today.

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Quote of the Week- New Starts

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning." -TS Eliot

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Quote of the Week- Getting Grateful

"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude" -Nietzsche

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Quote of the Week- Thank you, Carrie Fisher

"Everything grows rounder and wider and weirder, and I sit here in the middle of it all and wonder who in the world you will turn out to be." -Carrie Fisher

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Quote of the Week- Halloween

"If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween" - Douglas Coupland

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Quote os the Week- We are Channels

 Two of my favorites-

 

"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

"God has given us two hands- one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing." -Billy Graham

 

 

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Quote for Halloween Week- Fear

This week, I am going to write about my ideas for Halloween this year! In honor of the upcoming holiday, today's quote is about fear:

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold." -Helen Keller

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Quote of te Week- It's World Teachers Day!

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than those who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."-Aristotle

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit." -John Steinbeck

"Most of us end up with no more than 5 or 6 people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives." -Andy Rooney

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Quote of the Week- It's Apple Week!

The first weekend of October is Applefest in Franklin, PA, our hometown. Since The Boy's family all work constantly through  the weekend, we will probably never go home for it (until of course we live in Pittsburgh- a classmate told me at our reunion that she only talks about moving to Pittsburgh with certainty, no ifs. I am using this tactic now. WHEN we move back to Pennsylvania, we might still go back for Applefest). This year, as I have reached the no fly zone of my pregnancy, we doubly won't be going home.

But we have mastered the fine art of celebrating that one time Johnny Appleseed came through in our own way on our own coast. Mostly, we eat apple type things (and hot sausage sandwiches) and decorate with apples and embarrassing crafts. As you might imagine, I am pumped for this whole thing, and the house already looks a lot more like fall. So this week's theme is about Applefest, in Franklin and elsewhere, and coming up with traditions to make where you are at feel more like home.

"Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but it’s always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.”- Joyce Dennys

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Quote of the Week- Contact Between Women

“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.”- Audre Lorde, The Cancer Diaries

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Quote of the Week- Stewardship and Green Practices

“It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.”

 “We depend upon other creatures and survive by their deaths. To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. When we do it ignorantly, greedily, clumsily, destructively, it is a desecration. In such desecration we condemn ourselves to spiritual and moral loneliness, and others to want.”

- Wendall Berry

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Quote of the Week- Traveling

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart" - Confucius

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