Sunday Pipes #139

One of, if not the best version of this timeless piece of music.

The video is outstanding also!

I’m  finally figuring out how to blog on my iPad, which has taken a while.

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Urban Gardening

Last Spring I purchased a Meyer Lemon Bush  for my “balcony garden.”  While there were many fragrant blossoms earlier this year (I kept it inside during the Winter months),  I believe that finally I might have a lemon on the way.

Life’s simple pleasures.

In other urban garden news, the two Mourning Dove eggs mentioned here, appear to have been abandoned and I fear they are no longer viable.

Life and death just inches away from one another.

 

 

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On Sacred Idleness

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

-George MacDonald

Neglected indeed. 

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Another Observation

I took this photo (with the old Olympus) at Edisto Beach, SC in 2011. It has been used on websites and other places. I

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt

-Minna Antrim

My blogging has been sparse.  Between the meteoric growth of our business, some travel, and no longer having a laptop, it has been difficult for me to make the time to blog.  This too, shall pass.

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On Giving


If you are a giver, remember to learn your limits . . . Because the takers don’t have any.

-unknown

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On Training

“You have to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings or else you will lose yourself”

-Mike Tyson.

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On Patience

Patience is not simply the ability to wait . . . It’s how we behave while we are waiting.
-Joyce Meyer

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On Meetings

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Dr. Thomas Sowell

 

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On Conclusive Evidence

The late, Big Red, June 5, 2017.

Don’t accept your dogs admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful

– attributed to Ann Landers

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On Humility

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less”

-C.S. Lewis

The last two weeks have reminded me of this quote.  Competing priorities, coupled with laptop issues have caused me to take almost a week off from blogging.  It is just another pause in that thing we call “ life”.

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