Quotes
Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“To love our neighbors as ourselves means to see that we are worth loving, and those around us are too.” Jonathan Merritt
The Tenafly Road Series
Quote: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” Oscar Wilde
Image: The artist Anders Zorn and his wife Emma.
QUOTE: “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” Rumi
QUOTE: “I am more afraid of deserving criticism, than of receiving it.” William Gladstone.
QUOTE: “Being not unacquainted with woe, I learned to help the unfortunate.” Virgil.

Cottage Girl with Dog and Pitcher, Thomas Gainsborough
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Moments
An illusion haunts us, that a long duration, as a year, a decade, a century, is valuable. But an old French sentence says, “God works in moments.” We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life or grand moments that signify. Let the measure of Time be spiritual, not mechanical. Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance–what ample borrowers of eternity they are!
Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Sailor’s Return
**Paintings by 19th century American artist Thomas Hovenden
QUOTE: “Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

The Black Brook by John Singer Sargent 1908
In the end, we remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King

The Veteran in a New Field by Winslow Homer
Thinking of all the men and women who never come home. This painting never gets old for me.