Nana Knits and Jams: Thankful for small things

Saturday, February 28, 2009

Thankful for small things

Jim and I had a surprise invitation this week to join a CROP walk friend for dinner. Alice, a widow, moved late last year, leaving deep New York roots to settle here in Central Pennsylvania. To us, it seemed (and still seems) a courageous move. Thus, Wednesday night we joined her for dinner at Foxdale, a Quaker sponsored retirement village. The food was nourishing and tasty, the company delightful, and being among senior citizens a comforting reminder of my mother and father. It was a special joy to reconnect with the Dalys, long time friends of my parents.

A simple meal, the comfort of friendship forming, and a glimpse of things to come..someday. I am grateful for this gentle interlude in the middle of my week.

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Barbara Campbell ThomasMarch 2, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Oh I like the makeover for you blog--great new colors!!!1

We've got to catch up--for some reason the past week has been nutty--we've a snow day today though which is welcome. I look forward to our time north!
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Ellen CampbellMarch 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM
And we talk daily about you coming...such a delightful treat for us!
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Quotes that resonate

"From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay attention to the west wind. Pay attention to the boy on the raft, the lady in the tower, the old man on the train. In sum, pay attention to the world and all that dwells therein and thereby learn at last to pay attention to yourself and all that dwells therein." -Frederick Buechner

" If you do not wish for His kingdom, don't pray for it. But if you do, you must do more than pray for it; you must work for it." -John Ruskin

"All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle."-Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851

"Prayer is sitting in silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God until we are a constant act of praise." -Fr. Richard Rohr

"Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know . . . if one is honest."  -May Sarton

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there." -Rumi

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"Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth." –Rumi

"The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for. "–Sir Thomas More, 16th century martyr

"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear." -Marilynne Robinson, "Gilead."