“It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.”
~Aesop

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

The Swing

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson – 1850-1894
How do you like to go up in a swing?
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside–

Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown -
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!

You don’t need a grand old castle
Rising in the air
Maids to brush your hair
Your heart is pure, you’re thoughtful
Surely princess, you’re almost there

Why just putting on a tiara
And you aren’t the same old you
My life changed so completely
By just putting on a shoe
Who knew

Every girl can be a princess
Fashion can be learned
Heads can still be turned
By your sweet face
The style and grace
You know you’ve already earned

Hold your head high and keep smiling
‘Cause that’s just what a princess does
You’re as beloved and beguiling
As ever a princess was

Every girl can be a princess
All that’s left to do
Is find a prince for you
A prince who’s bold
You’ll hold you your whole life through

The most perfect princess
Is you

It seemed to be giving thanks…

“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”

      “Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t
own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it
you can never get it back.”

 

“Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.”

~Emily James Putnam