"The glorious sky, embracing all, Is like the Father's love; Wherewith encompassed, great and small In peace and order move."
~ John Keble, The Creator
🕯️🩵Digital Art: The Tale of a Soul's Night Prayer by Laura Makabresku
"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Art by Eva Grossmann
"The forest has a thousand moods - For every mood an answering bird. The bird is but a living word To voice the spirit of the woods; His own, the singer ay must sing; He may not touch an alien string, Nor silent be, nor fail the key, Lest that aerial symphony, Which ever and forever weaves Its mystic numbers through the leaves, Should lack one deep or tender tone. However dark, however lone The shadow or the solitude, The mighty oneness of the wood Links singer unto singer there, And pours one choral on the air."
~James H. Ecob, "The Choral of the Forest," 1911
🌳🦅🎋Illustration • Amelia and the Love Bird • Amy Grimes
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." ~ Rachel Carson
🦅🌜🍎Artwork: Nature Whispers her Wisdom Annunciation by Trudi Doyle
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“May Light always surround you; Hope Kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to healing; Your Heart embrace feeling. May Wounds become wisdom; Every Kindness a prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire your Deepest desires. Through all that you reach for, May your arms never tire.”
~ D. Simone
Digital Art: Enduring Grace, Inge Schuster
Read to Me By Jane Yolen
Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes Read to me stories of magical times Read to me tales about castles and kings Read to me stories of fabulous things Read to me pirates and read to me knights Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then When you are finished--please read them again.
From The Three Bears Rhyme Book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,1987)
Photograph Read to Me a Story Jai Johnson
"Let me come and whisper A little something, That I know to be true Be slower as you go Be kinder with those thoughts Be gentle with your words, For you are precious to me, And far more delicate Than you would ever believe."
~Athey Thompson
Digital Art • Woman and Bird • Inge Schuster
Harmless Insanity...
"The ardor of possessing books, commonly called bibliomania, also styled bibliophilism and "biblio"- whatever else that has suggested itself to the fruitful imaginations of dozens of felicitous writers upon the subject,- is described by Dibdin as a "disease which grows with our growth, and strengthens with our strength." It should be remembered, however, that one possessing a fondness for books is not necessarily a bibliomaniac. There is as much difference between the inclinations and taste of a bibliophile and a bibliomaniac as between a slight cold and the advanced stages of consumption. Someone has said that "to call a bibliophile a bibliomaniac is to conduct a lover, languishing for his maiden's smile, to an asylum for the demented, and to shut him up in the ward for the incurables." A bibliomaniac might properly be called an insane or crazy bibliophile. It is, however, a harmless insanity."
~ Henry H. Harper, Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs, 1904
🎨A Cherry on Top • Linda Apple