A Vagabond's Song...

A Vagabond's Song

I was baptized by New York City sleet and tempered in

New England snow.

I walked among the ancient rocks and pondered nature's

  hieroglyphs.

I watched the silver snake ford the brook.

  I fought. My spear was inscribed with sacred runes.

  I gather knowledge from books and birds and children at play.

  I respect the mystic myths.

  I know when there's love and when there isn't.

  I can hear the echoes of my struggling ancestors.

  Those who saw me sit and stare and said I was a worthless

dreamer are gone.

I survived the silent sirens.

  Now I sit and stare and while I sit I think, I imagine, I write,

I design, I survive because I can.

There is inexpressible music in my head, poetry in my heart

and a sense of humor in my pocket.

I am a child of the universe.

  I am not worthless.

- written and posted by permission

 from DB at Vagabond Journeys


Please visit DB!  You won't be disappointed!!

Overcoming Depression Quotes...

Overcoming Depression Quotes

"Mental health problems do not affect three or four
out of every five persons, but one out of one."
- Dr. William Menninger

"Take the first step, no more, no less,
and the next will be revealed."
- Ken Roberts

"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling
with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain.
But you have already borne the pain. What you have not
done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Hope is grief’s best music."
- Author Unknown

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best
antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset.
It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens.
It is the direct route to serenity and contentment."
- Greenville Kleiser

"In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair,
there are always certain things to cling to. Little things
usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child,
a tree in the wind - in fact, any reminder of something
deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to
have many of these small candles. When they are lighted,
darkness goes away - and a touch of wonder remains."
- "These Small Candles", a tombstone inscription in Britain

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly,
acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all,
I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing."
- Agatha Christie

"One ceases to recognize the significance of mountain peaks
if they are not viewed occasionally from the deepest valleys."
- Dr. Al Lorin

"Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller

The first week of October (2 - 8) is National Mental Illness
Awareness Week. If you are hurting, please let someone know!!
If you have no one to turn to, the crisis line below is open year-
round, 24/7. They care and will not judge you!

Visit NAMI for more details on mental health.

- dedicated to J. and S., two hurting young people,
who left this earth too soon.

Autumn Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Autumn Quotes and a Bible Verse


Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper
time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
- Galatians 6:9


"For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together.
For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."
- Adwin Way Teale


"The summer fades and passes and October comes.
We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness,
a thrill of nervousness, swift elation,
a sense of sadness and departure."
- Thomas Wolfe


"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it,
and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth
seeking the successive autumns."
- George Eliot


"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect
pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
- Carol Bishop Hipps


"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor,
summer an oil painting,
and autumn a mosaic of them all."
- Stanley Horowitz


"The breezes taste of apple peel.
The air is full of smells to feel -
Ripe fruit, old footballs, burning brush,
New books, erasers, chalk, and such.
The bee, his hive, well-honeyed hum,
And Mother cuts chrysanthemums.
Like plates washed clean with suds, the days
Are polished with a morning haze."
- John Updike


"If you do not sow in the spring,
you will not reap in the autumn."
- An Irish Proverb


"Even if something is left undone, everyone must take
time to sit still and watch the leaves turn."
- Elizabeth Lawrence


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- E. E. Cummings

Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse...

Inspirational Quotes and a Bible Verse

"Cast all your anxieties on Him for He cares for you."

- 1 Peter 5:7

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward,

and try to keep looking upward."

- Charlotte Bronte

"I can turn my day around. I can change the flavor of today's

experiences. I can lift my spirits and know all is well."

- Author Unknown

"Today, well lived, will prepare me for both

the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow."

- Author Unknown

"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."

- H. Jackson Browne, Jr.

"I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay."

- lyrics from Dave Matthews Band

"Lean on me, when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend,

I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long, 'til I'm going to

need somebody to lean on."

- lyrics from song 'Lean On Me'

"If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions,

we shall have heaping measures."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let today be a day in which I do something joyful."

- Dana Bate (from Vagabond Journeys)

"Today I will have faith and all will be well."

- Author Unknown

Valentine's Day Quotes and a Verse...

Valentine's Day Quotes and a Verse

"We love because He first loved us."

- 1 John 4:19

"Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up

the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots."

- Hoosier Farmer

"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love,

thou art every day my Valentine!"

- Thomas Hood

"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow

feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

- Kay Knudsen

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

- James Thurber

"A hundred hearts would be too few

To carry all my love for you."

- Author Unknown

"The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was

important to them: there ought to be as many for love."

- Margaret Atwood

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

- Rose Franken

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

- Albert Einstein

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."

- Robert Browning

* dedicated to my parents, D. and B. who have been married for 53 years!
I love you two and am so proud of you!!  Happy Valentine's Day!!

Inspirational Life Quotes...

Inspirational Life Quotes

"Lovely, complicated wrappings sheath the gift of one-day-more;

breathless, I untie the package - never lived this day before!"

- Gloria Gaither

"Life is what we are alive to. It is not length but breath.

Be alive to goodness, kindness, purity, love, history, poetry,

music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hope."

- Maltbie D. Babcock

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all

is to see life as it is and not as it should be."

- Don Quixote

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be

what you wish to be thought to be."

- Socrates

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by

people not smart enough to know they were impossible."

- Doug Larson

"I think of life itself as a wonderful play

that I've written for myself, and so my purpose

is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

- Shirley MacLaine

"This above all; to thine own self be true."

- William Shakespeare

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;

most of which never happened."

- Montaigne

Quotes by Charles Dickens...

Quotes by Charles Dickens

"Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty,

not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"No one is useless in this world who lightens

the burden of it for anyone else."

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that

never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"There are dark shadows on the earth,

but its lights are stronger in the contrast."

"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."

"Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism

are all very good words for the lips."

"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man!

Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the

eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat

to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china."

"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing

of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."