“Better to keep your mouth closed and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” - Abraham Lincoln

If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
--unknown

After seeing how many people waste their lives (without a break: gab, gab, gab---and with all the consequences!) I can better appreciate how necessary and lovable silence is. And I can understand, Lord, why you will make us account for every idle word.
~St. Josemarie Escriva

Homemaking

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
--chinese proverb

Focus on your home today. What can you do to make it a place of refuge for your family? A good, homecooked meal? Clean, organized spaces? A compassionate ear for listening? Spring is a good time to remake rooms and clean out clutter. Surprise your kids with a picnic lunch and read to them outside.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~Mother Teresa

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
--Leo Tolstoy

For today let me do the next thing with great joy in the service of my husband and children. Let me find my joy in giving to others.

Welcome spring!

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
---William Shakespeare

I love spring as much as I love Shakespeare!