still walking and waking: 9/11/11

Friday, September 16, 2011

moments with Nana


Barb took this picture, and we get a kick out of Z, The River Dancer.

a little fire pit for the porch (best $37 we've ever spent)


the Metis Indian fiddle festival at the Canadian / U.S. Peace Garden	s

dancing to the fiddle tunes

Thanks, Nana, for your visit! You took on dish and laundry duties unblinkingly, made sure I focused on my list of projects, and gave the kids (one high energy toddler in particular) the attention and love they needed. We love you!

When stories are shared, individual experiences become communal experiences. This is hospitality at its most profound.
- - - Doug Pagitt

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
- - - John Muir

We can't be bored in the woods if we understand them.
- - - Ray Jardine paraphrased

Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.
- - - Jack Handy

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
- - - Max Ehrmann

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- - - Zora Neale Hurston

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.
- - - Zora Neale Hurston

When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
when doubt no longer exists for you,
then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelop you, be still.
Be still until the sunlight pours through
and dispels the mists --
as it surely will.
Then act with courage.
- - - Ponca Chief White Eagle

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
- - - Psalm 34:14