Twice each year the Thursday blog is a sampling of my photos with quotes. It’s that time again and I hope you enjoy both.

“Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention; mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds.” – Anne Lamott

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“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein

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Jeff Buford (1942-2020) “Good men don’t become legends,” he said quietly. “Good men don’t need to become legends.” She opened her eyes, looking up at him. “They just do what’s right anyway.” – Brandon Sanderson

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“Watching the morning break, I realize again that darkness doesn’t kill the light – it defines it.” – Richard Wagamese

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“How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky.” ― Ruta Sepetys

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“My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew.” – Anne Lamott

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“All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once.” – Terry Pratchett

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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.” – Sylvia Plath

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“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.” – Barack Obama

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“A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.” – Guy de Maupassant

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“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” – Mahatma Gandhi