Shoots and Saplings

At Day's End! Weather!

2009-11-23T21:17:02+01:00

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

~~John Ruskin

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Justice Is As Justice Does!

2009-11-23T12:51:16+01:00

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

~~Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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At Day's End! Tolerance!

2009-11-22T19:59:50+01:00

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every person present their views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

~~ Albert Einstein

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November Quote! Tolerance!

2009-11-22T13:08:19+01:00

We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all...
-- Muhammad Ali

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At Day's End! Animals!

2009-11-21T21:30:55+01:00

"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 answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction."

~~Charles R. Magel

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November Musing! Humility!

2009-11-21T11:30:33+01:00

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-a-million type of person, there are still a thousand others exactly like you.
~~A. Whitney Brown, (The Big Picture)

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At Day's End! Animals!

2009-11-20T22:02:02+01:00

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

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November Musing! 'Myself'

2009-11-20T12:14:31+01:00

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-contradictory. I was naïve. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: that I am nobody but myself.
~~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"

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At Day's End! Cats!

2009-11-19T22:01:22+01:00

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.

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November Song! Attitude!

2009-11-19T10:35:42+01:00

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 hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
~~Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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At Day's End! How To Live!

2009-11-18T21:02:10+01:00

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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.

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How Simple-minded Can You Be?

2009-11-18T14:54:43+01:00

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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 her shelter, feeding him and supplying him with whisky previously washed up. When he had fully recovered, she asked him if he would like to play around.
He looked at her in astonishment and replied, "I can't believe my luck. All this and you've got a set of golf clubs too?"

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November Song! Why!

2009-11-18T11:37:28+01:00

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 Waldo Emerson

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At Day's End! Our Liberties!

2009-11-17T21:20:45+01:00

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

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November blooms!

2009-11-17T16:36:40+01:00

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 buds...one of which opened over the week-end. The second bloom for both this year....Quite remarkable!
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November Song! Attitude!

2009-11-17T12:17:25+01:00

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

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A Little Night Music!

2009-11-16T22:49:19+01:00

Something quite different tonight! Marcello's Oboe Concerto arranged for Guitar!
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November Song! Kindness!

2009-11-16T13:29:06+01:00

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 it on.
~~Henry Burton, Pass It On

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A Little Night Music!

2009-11-15T21:23:12+01:00

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 voices..carefully selected. They are now, sadly disbanded! The piece chosen is...Fruzeitiger Fruhling...Composer: Mendelssohn! She has a coloratura voice which is clearly heard in the higher registers.....Hope you will enjoy it!
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November Song!

2009-11-15T12:41:55+01:00

A Fall Song
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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, sweet flowers!
Through bright Summer hours
You have filled our hearts with cheer
We shall miss you so,
And yet you must go,
For this is the Fall of the year.

Now the days grow cold,
As the year grows old,
And the meadows are brown and sere;
Brave robin redbreast
Has gone from his nest,
For this is the Fall of the year.

I do softly pray
At the close of day,
That the little children, so dear,
May as purely grow
As the fleecy snow
That follows the Fall of the year.

~~Ellen Robena Field

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A Little Night Music!

2009-11-14T21:40:45+01:00

May this draw you further into relaxing....Enjoy!
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At Day's End! The Self!

2009-11-14T19:06:30+01:00

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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 raised his hand eagerly and said, "Me!"

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November Song!

2009-11-14T12:06:44+01:00

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 around
All around

Orange leaves falling
Orange leaves falling
On the ground
On the ground
Autumn-time is coming
Autumn-time is coming
All around
All around

Brown leaves scattered
Brown leaves scattered
On the ground
On the ground
Autumn-time is now here
Autumn-time is now here
All around
All around

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A Little Friday Night Music!

2009-11-13T21:25:02+01:00

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!

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At Day's End! Sweet & Sour!

2009-11-13T18:47:51+01:00

I Walked a Mile with Pleasure
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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 she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When sorrow walked with me.

~~Robert Browning Hamilton

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November! Little Sparrow!

2009-11-13T12:38:19+01:00

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
Blows again?

Beating, sleeting on your draggled coat!
Surely, 'tis enough to drown
Any happy note
Nestling in that downy brown
Little throat.

Ah me, sparrow! Had I but your power,
Think you in the freezing sleet
I would waste an hour?
--I'd sing my sweetest to a sweet
Orange flower!

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A Little Night Music!

2009-11-12T22:11:41+01:00

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

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At Day's End! Living!

2009-11-12T21:29:13+01:00

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

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November Song!

2009-11-12T12:33:26+01:00

A Child's Calendar
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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 birds are flown.

And yet the world,
In its distress,
Displays a certain
Loveliness---

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A Little Night Music!

2009-11-11T22:31:07+01:00

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