Shoots and Saplings

• At Day's End! Animals! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (2 hours old)

  ** "Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the … more

• November Musing! Humility! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (12 hours old)

  ** There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in… more

• At Day's End! Animals! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (1 day old)

  ** Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~~George Eliot **… more

• November Musing! 'Myself' From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (1 day old)

  ** All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self… more

• At Day's End! Cats! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (2 days old)

  ** When my cats aren't happy. I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. ~~Percy Bysshe Shelley. ** … more

• November Song! Attitude! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (2 days old)

  ** There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be ho… more

• At Day's End! How To Live! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (3 days old)

  ** One of my favourite sayings.....so enigmatic! ** If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live! ~~Lin Yutang. ** … more

• How Simple-minded Can You Be? From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (3 days old)

  ** A very dumb man fell overboard from a cruise ship and was washed up on a desert island. The only inhabitant was a beautiful young girl. immediately she administered to his needs - taking him to … more

• November Song! Why! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (3 days old)

  ** The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~~Ralph Wald… more

• At Day's End! Our Liberties! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (4 days old)

  ** "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ~~Thomas Jefferson. ** … more

• November blooms! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (4 days old)

  I took these this morning in our garden! The azalea has been in bloom for two weeks now; two colours. This is a picture of the white one. The other two pictures are of the Camelea which has numerous b… more

• November Song! Attitude! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (4 days old)

  ** Got no checkbooks, got no banks, Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. ~~Irving Berlin, "I Got the Sun in the Morning," 1946 ** … more

• A Little Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (5 days old)

  Something quite different tonight! Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged for Guitar! * ** … more

• November Song! Kindness! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (5 days old)

  ** Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass … more

• A Little Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (6 days old)

  This may not necessarily appeal to everyone but it is a genre of music to which I am very attracted! This piece is particularly special to me because my daughter sang in this Ensemble, of sixteen voic… more

• November Song! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (6 days old)

  A Fall Song ** Golden and red trees Nod to the soft breeze, As it whispers, "Winter is near;" And the brown nuts fall At the wind's loud call, For this is the Fall of the year. Good-by, sw… more

• A Little Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (7 days old)

  May this draw you further into relaxing....Enjoy! * **… more

• At Day's End! The Self! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (7 days old)

  ** A teacher was giving a lecture on modern inventions. "Can any of you mention something of importance that did not exist fifty years ago?" she asked. One bright lad in the front row raise… more

• November Song! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (7 days old)

  SONG: Autumn-time is coming (sung to the tune of Frere Jacques) Red leaves falling Red leaves falling On the ground On the ground Autumn-time is coming Autumn-time is coming All ar… more

• A Little Friday Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (8 days old)

  This is especially for a very good blogbuddy of mine...AND for all others who feel a close affinity with this kind of Music.......Enjoy it! ** **… more

• At Day's End! Sweet & Sour! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (8 days old)

  I Walked a Mile with Pleasure ** I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chatted all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne’er a word said … more

• November! Little Sparrow! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (8 days old)

  ** Wherefore Wings by Evaleen Stein Heigho, sparrow! Reckless of the rain; When chill the cheerless wind grows, Chirping might and main! Is it naught, then, when the rose … more

• A Little Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (9 days old)

  * Ringing the Site Changes! Same Content......Still 'my music'...Hope you enjoy ** **… more

• At Day's End! Living! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (9 days old)

  ** "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." ~~e e cumming **… more

• November Song! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (9 days old)

  A Child's Calendar ** November by John Updike The stripped and shapely Maple grieves The ghosts of her Departed leaves. The ground is hard, As hard as stone. The year is old, The bi… more

• A Little Night Music! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (10 days old)

  * Change of site; change of music.....Hope you enjoy it nonetheless... * **… more

• At Day's End! Dream! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (10 days old)

  ** Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the things you do. So throw off the bowliness. Sail away from safe harbour. Catch the Trade Winds i… more

• November Musing! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (10 days old)

  ** There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have lo… more

• At Day's End! Friendship! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (11 days old)

  ** "Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship. Eating or drinking without a friend is the life of… more

• November! Fog! From Bushka ^Pro in Shoots and Saplings (11 days old)

  ** Fog in November, trees have no heads, Streams only sound, walls suddenly stop Half-way up hills, the ghost of a man spreads Dung on dead fields for next year's crop. I cannot see my hand b… more

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