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“I take refuge in You, O God.I turn to you in thanksgiving, I rest in you in difficulty.I thank you for life in this beautiful place,for a heritage which forms me and teaches me.I thank you for the heart you planted within me, and for thestill small voice which urges it to grow.My spirit isContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 17th November”

International Day for Tolerance “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” Eleanor Holmes Norton, US congresswoman and civil rights activist

“Every leaf that grows will tell you:what you sow will bear fruit,so if you have any sense my friend,don’t plant anything but Love.” Rumi

“Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven’t time, and to see takes time – like to have a friend takes time… When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.” Georgia O’KeefeContinue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 14th November”

“Everything changes, even stone.” Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), painter, born on this day

“Truth is the only safe ground to stand on… We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 – 1902), women’s rights activist, born on this day

WWI Armistice Day “November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy.. all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of theContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 11th November”

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scrambleContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 10th November”

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every heroContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 9th November”

“Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.” From Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1900 – 1949), born on this day