PERFECT Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

PERFECT Dickinson

Life is a spell so exquisite, that everything conspires to break it.
Emily Dickinson

PERFECT February #2

Man must make his peace with his seasons or the gods will laugh at him.
Mary Renault

PERFECT Anticipation

A hush is over everything
Silent as women wait for love;
The world is waiting for the spring.
Sara Teasdale

PERFECT Monday

He who bends himself to a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
William Blake



Firebird by Edmund Dulac

PEFECT Kale/Kali/Cale

Best snack ever:

Kale Chips
Cut up strips of Kale
Place on cookie sheet
Drizzle with olive oil
Drizzle with lemon juice
Mix it up
Sprinkle with sea salt
Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.

PERFECT February

Everywhere, everywhere, snow sifting down, a world becoming white, no more sounds, no longer possible to find the heart of the day, the sun is gone, the sky is nowhere, and of all I wanted in life - so be it - whatever it is that brought me here, chance, fortune, whatever blessing each flake of snow is the hint of, I am grateful, I bear witness, I hold out my arms, palms up, I know it is impossible to hold for long what we love of the world, but look at me, is it foolish, shameful, arrogant to say this, see how the snow drifts down, look how happy I am.

"Manna" by Joseph Stroud

PERFECT Maya

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
Maya Angelou

Painting by William Blake