It's the little things...

Photo: Lydia Stewart

Trifles make the sum of life.
-Charles Dickens

I Am Rich…

"I am not heartsick because I am rich and they are poor."
"We're not rich, Papa. We're..."
"Yes we are boy. We have one another to tend to, and this land to tend. And one day we'll own it outright. We have Solomon here to wind up a capstan and help us haul our burdens. (...) We have Daisy's hot milk. We got rain to wash up with, to get the grime off us. We can look at sundown and see it all, so that it wets the eye and hastens the heart. We hear all the music that's in the wind, so much music that it itches my feet to start tapping. Just like a fiddle."

-Robert Newton Peck, “A Day No Pigs Would Die”

Death

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.

-Sue Monk Kidd, from "The Secret Life of Bees"

Nature

Photo: Ben Romney, Europe

"To walk in nature is always good medicine."

-Jean Craighead George, "On the Far Side of the Mountain

Our Treasures

Photo: Lydia Stewart

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
-Thorton Wilder