They smiled while holding each other’s hands

And marched through the crowded city streets

While floats drifted in the air and music played

~Stacy M. Lugo

The paper dragon delivers a new year, unlimited possibilities, to hopeful hearts.

~Jodi Diderrich

Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither – these make the finest company in the world.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Life well spent is long.

Leonardo da Vinci

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

Anton Chekhov

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

She makes her presence known ~ We are having conversation once again, I feel her gentle response encouraging me as she brushes against my shoulder on a warm spring day~

~Suzanne Simonovich

Children nestle close to hear, once upon a moonbeam clear ~ memories of sunny escapades ~ fragrant flowers from heaven’s scent now earthy habitats ~

~Suzanne Simonovich

Spare a thought, say a prayer, show concern for people there ~ the most elite of this country sweet have swiftly been taken away ~ we bow our heads and remember them today ~

~Suzanne Simonovich