Category Archives: life around us

Worth taking a look

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

take a moment and look around. Chances are good you will find something worth pausing over and wondering over. Continue reading →

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Being in the World — Pico Iyer

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Talking of how you are a Buddhist and therefore opposed to the Judeo-Christian teaching is like solemnly asserting that your right nostril is the source of everything good, and your left nostril a place of evil. Continue reading →

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Also From the Quote Box

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. — Alan Watts

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For the quote box

Posted on December 6, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of the mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark. It … Continue reading →

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Yup, that

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole. — Vincent van Gogh Continue reading →

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