Always Summer

The serene philosophy of the pink rose is steadying.  Its fragrant, delicate petals
open fully and are ready to fall, without regret or disillusion, after only a day
in the sun.  It is so every summer.  One can almost hear their pink, fragrant
murmur as they settle down upon the grass: 'Summer, summer, it will always be summer.'

--Rachel Peden

 

 

The full value of joy

"To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."

--Mark Twain

O summer day

O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.

--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The cure

"The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

--Lydia Maria Child

Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

"He must increase, but I must decrease."
--the words of Saint John the Baptist, as recorded by Saint John, Ch.3., V. 30 of the Holy Bible

(Happy 12th birthday, Mary!)

Beauty

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

--Al Bernstein

The rose

Busy bees chased the blossom chaste:
though they crawled on her clothes,
her petals unfolded and those held close.
Still ever faithful to the sun is the everpure rose.
Whether her hue is violet or rose,
whether she grows in freedom or rows,
ever to God in waves arose the love perfume
from the heart of the rose.

--Saiom Shriver