“The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind”
E. B. White quotes (American writer 1899-1985) found on ThinkExist.com
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
from ThinkExist.com
Amazingly I heard this song on the online folk radio station FOLKALLEY.COM just this morning shortly after I decided to post the lyrics of this song which has been a favorite of mine for years.
BLOSSOM
by James Taylor
from his Sweet Baby James album
Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way
Lately, I’ve been lonesome
Blossom, it’s been much too long a day
Seems my dreams have frozen
Melt my cares away
Send the sunshine down my way whenever you call my name
I know what you mean to say to me, girl, it’s all the same
Blossom, there’s any empty road behind
Sit you down beside me
Blossom, there’s a sweet dream on my mind
There’s a song inside me
Take these chains away
Now, send the sunshine down my way whenever you call my name
I know what you mean to say to me, girl, it’s all the same
Blossom, smile some sunshine down my way
Lately, I’ve been lonesome
Blossom, it’s been much too long a day
Seems my dreams have frozen
Melt my cares away
I made an executive decision and decided not to do Twitter and Pushnote at this time. There is definitely a limit to how many online accounts I want to contribute to and keep up with. Unlike some, any time I devote to committees or professional development is done on my own time because the number of hours that I’m allowed to work at my library job are restricted and I believe the hours I’m there are best spent serving my patrons.
I am glad to finally understand and start using RSS with some sites I’ve recently become aware of.
When I saw this Emerson quotation on the wall at the Emerson Inn I wrote it down because I too was feeling the restorative power of the sea for the first time in a very long time. The quotation led me to read the Heart of Emerson’s Journals and a seed was planted for my 2012 calendar. The photograph in this post and the quotation below were included on the inside of the 2012 back cover.
Written by Ralph Waldo Emerson after his visit to Rockport, MA in 1857
“Returned from Pigeon Cove, where we have made acquaintance with the sea, for seven days. ‘Tis a noble friendly power, and seemed to say to me, ‘Why so late and slow to come to me? Am I not here always thy proper summer home? Is not my voice thy needful music: my breath, thy healthful climate in the heats; my touch, thy cure? Was ever building like my terraces: was ever couch so magnificent as mine? Lie down on my warm ledges and learn that a very little hut is all you need. I have made thy architecture superfluous, and it is paltry beside mine.’ …And behold the sea, the opaline, plentifold and strong, yet beautiful as the rose or rainbow, full of food, nourisher of men, purger of the world, creating a sweet climate, and, in its unchangeable ebb and flow, and in its beauty at a few furlongs, giving a hint of that which changes not, and is perfect.”
R. W. Emerson from The Heart of Emerson’s Journals
Squeezed in time to look at three of my fellow 23cpder’s blogs this evening as part of Thing #1. Found I was drawn by the use of certain words in the blog titles as I quickly scanned the list of participant blogs.
Having happily stumbled upon cpd23 ( see link in the Blogroll near bottom to find what it is if you want to ) after it started, I’m still catching up with the assignments. It seemed like a good excuse to learn about things I’d been wanting to learn and no longer wanted to be clueless about.
As for what caught my eye in the 23 things, here’s a run down.