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TCS: Lines of Old Songs We Can’t Remember But Will Aye Come Back
Good Morning! ____________________________ To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. – E. B. White ________________ “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bonestructure of the landscape. Something waitsbeneath it; the whole story doesn’t … Continue reading
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TCS: Unpacking the Luggage of the Heart
Good Morning! ____________________________ Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation. ― Sinclair Lewis ________________ “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew … Continue reading
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TCS: Because of Unreportable Sadnesses …
Good Morning! _____________________________ Wisdom comes with winters. ― Oscar Wilde________________ “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker ________________ “for every revolutionary must at last will his own destructionrooted as he … Continue reading
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TCS: The World Must Be Made Safe for the Young
Good Morning! _____________________________ “Poetry is like fish: if it’s fresh, it’s good; if it’s stale, it’s bad; and if you’re not certain, try it on the cat.” ― Osbert Sitwell, English writer and poet ________________ “The basic tool for the … Continue reading
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TCS: The Road of Change Is Before You Always
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux ________________ Another Kind of Christmas by Nona Blyth Cloud A bright parched sky over cold cracked earth Our north wind stole the last tear from air’s … Continue reading
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TCS: The Joy That You Give to Others
Good Morning! ______________________________ “… astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.” ― Maya Angelou ________________ What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss-born philosopher and political theorist
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TCS: The Songs That Tell Our Inmost Hopes
Good Morning! ______________________________ “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth ________________ “Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.” ― Paul Engle, … Continue reading
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TCS: It Has an Inner Light … and Changes Us
Good Morning! ______________________________ “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” ― Leonard Cohen ________________ “It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel … Continue reading
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TCS: Are You a Visitor?
Good Morning! ______________________________ You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. ― William Blake ________________ “A poem once read is the first note of a symphony, a toe dipped in the water, … Continue reading
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TCS: If We Ever Should Come to Kindness …
Good Morning! _____________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. _____________________________ “Carpe diem! Rejoice while … Continue reading
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