Category Archives: From the Quote Box

Local Fiordland Beer

This went with my quite-lovely dinner tonight and it was quite tasty inside and out: From the sea for as far inland as the eye can reach, nothing is to be seen but the summits of these rocky mountains which … Continue reading

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It was good

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. – Haldir, The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien Continue reading

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Adventure all around

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,” he used to say. Continue reading

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Nice Moment & Unrelated Quote

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. — Anaïs Nin Continue reading

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The unseen

We do not need more of the things that are seen. We need more of the things that are unseen. – Calvin Coolidge Thanks to @GreatestQuotes via Twitter

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