Today is the only day . . . . .


The point is to see today for what it is because it will be gone before you know it. If you waste it, it is your life that you are wasting. If you look the other way, it may be the moment you've been waiting for always that you're missing. All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from them. Today is the only day there is.
 
(Frederick Buechner, 1926-)

Baby and Me


Oh my! See what happens when I clean out the closets?
My baby and me, circa 1988.
Such sweetness.

“Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.” - Lin Yutang

“A little girl, asked where her home was, replied, 'Where mother is.'" - Keith L. Brooks

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” - Rajneesh
 

Flowers


“A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury
has yet to learn the first principles of civilization”
~ Chinese Proverb


“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence ....
we need silence to be able to touch souls.”
~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta
 

“I like flowers, I also like children,
but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.”  
~ George Bernard Shaw
 
I salvaged the pale pink ranunculus from last week's store-bought bouquet. The pretty lavender babies are growing like weeds down by the road. They grow straight up, single spikes, with the lovely tiny flowers on them. Does anyone know what they are?