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Purple Passages: Rich Word$

by MarianBeaman | Jan 17, 2015 | Lists, Purple Passage, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

On December 29, author/blogger Joan Rough published a post declaring her optimistic intentions for 2015 and pondering a single word to characterize this new year while contemplating words of wisdom used other years. Some choices she suggested: Believe, Dare, Trust,...

Purple Passages, Time and Tiny Tim, December 2014

by MarianBeaman | Dec 27, 2014 | Education, Gratitude, meditation, Purple Passage, Quotations, Uncategorized

Christmas: Time to Feel the Spirit Christmas is not [just] a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.  – President Calvin Coolidge I will honor Christmas in my heart, and...

Purple Passages and Fine China

by MarianBeaman | Nov 12, 2014 | Education, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Mennonite Lore, Purple Passage, Quotations, Uncategorized

READING La Lectura es el viaje de los que no pueden tomar el tren.        – F. Croisset (Reading is the journey of those who cannot take the train.) Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested . . . .          – Sir...

Purple Passages and a Teddy Bear

by MarianBeaman | Oct 15, 2014 | Lists, Literature, Purple Passage, Quotations, Uncategorized

 LEAVES Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.   – Albert Camus Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.   – Jim Bishop Quotation, noun: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.      – Ambrose Bierce...

Family Dinners: Keeping the Spark Alive

by MarianBeaman | Oct 4, 2014 | Family / Nostalgia, Gratitude, Memory, Mennonite Lore, Purple Passage, Recipes, Uncategorized

Are family dinners important? What about empty nesters? Families of one? Do family dinners protect against the effects of teen drug use and cyberbullying? Writer Melodie Miller Davis in her recent blog post “How do you keep family dinner?” got me thinking about...

Purple Passages and a Mirror

by MarianBeaman | Sep 20, 2014 | Family / Nostalgia, Literature, meditation, Purple Passage, Quotations, Reflection

  The earth laughs in flowers.”     –  Ralph Waldo Emerson   MIRRORS Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.   – Ernest Holmes     Mirrors can both reflect and distort as Tennyson suggests: And moving through a...
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