Weedvillian Walker: PIECE OF HEAVEN

Friday, June 08, 2007

PIECE OF HEAVEN

This is where I go when I need to unwind, when I need to destress, when i need to take a break, when I need to calm down, when I need to think, when I want to not think about anything, this is where I go when I need to relax, when I need a break from the day, a break from work, or just a break from the way life is going. This is my backyard, this is my piece of heaven. this is my pond. I love it and most days its where I can be found if I'm not at work. Still needs a bit of work, still needs more rocks, but the plants and fish are in, the rest just needs "tweaked" a bit. Most days its the most perfect place to be, a place to dream and to not think about anything. I have learned that since we put the pond in I can again sit and relax a bit, and have started a book, the first one I've read in years. I love to sit on the lounge chair and read by the waterfall. Now, If I could just figure out how to get out of work to do that it would be perfect!

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In Memory

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength. I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.
Then someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!””Gone where?”Gone from my sight.
That is all. She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as she was when she left my side and she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. And just at the moment when someone at my side says: “There, she is gone!” there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices ready to take up the glad shout: ‘Here she comes!”
And that is dying.
Henry Van Dyke

Don't Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will. When the road you're trudging seems all uphill. When funds are low and the debts are high. And you want to smile, but you have to sigh. When care is pressing you down a bit. Rest, if you must, but don't you quit Life is queer with its twists and turns. As everyone of us sometimes learns. And many a failure turns about When he might have won had he stuck it out: Don't give up though the pace seems slow- you may succeed with another blow. Success is failure turned inside out- The silver tint of the clouds of doubt. And you never can tell how close you are. It may be near when it seems so far: So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit- It's when things seem worst that you must not QUIT Author unknown