snow

“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”

― Lewis Carroll

Giving, before receiving

So easy this season:

for nothing at all, you can donate hope
 (it took me 2 minutes - 2 swabs to the cheeks and some paperwork):

Be a part of the healing music -

lovehopestrength




AND for purchase/donation (two birds; one stone):

Serengetee




Wear the world

empower women
support free trade
change lives
support an economy that isn't your own

give a fishing pole -- not just a fish

asleep the snow came flying - Tim Story (pause player)

Pilgrims Progress

“a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.”

― John Bunyan

Thankful

If any late wanderer had looked in at midnight, he would have seen the fire blazing up again, and in the cheerful glow the old cat blinking her yellow eyes, as she sat bolt upright beside the spinning wheel, like some sort of household goblin, guarding the children while they slept.      -Louisa May Alcott

once upon a time

this part is easy... cancer is hard