A Tiny Step Towards Beauty

Cray furnishing fabric 1885 William Morris I've been trying to make small areas of my life more beautiful. This is my current cell phone background for November, and whenever I see it, I feel I've taken one small step towards Beauty. Happy Sunday. -rj

A Walk Around the Block | Poem #15

The Peace of Wild Things When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come…

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A Poem for the Week’s End

There is a spot mid barren hills Where winter howls and driving rain But if the dreary tempest chills There is a light that warms again.   The house is old, the trees are bare And moonless bends the misty dome But what on earth is half so dear— So longed for as the hearth…

Nerd Problem #2 : Book Covers

Who actually said "Don't judge a book by it's cover" ? I want to know. Because we all judge books by their covers. Even you. Need proof? How many of you have been suckered by a stunning cover only to find that the story between those covers is less than stunning? (That would be me.)…