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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday-color

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“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” -Paul Gauguin

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way.”= Georgia O’Keeffe

“There’s a reason we don’t see the world in black and white.” – Celerie Kemble

“This is a story about the color blue, and like blue, there’s nothing true about it. Blue is beauty, not truth. ‘True blue’ is a ruse, a rhyme; it’s there, then it’s not. Blue is a deeply sneaky color.” – Christopher Moore, Sacré Bleu: A Comedy d’Art

To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with them in a variation on stillness. I could hold them in prayer.”
― Sybil MacBeth, Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

Rich colours actually look more luminous on a grey day, because they are seen against a somber background and seem to be burning with a lustre of their own. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.”
― Chesterton G.K.

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Music

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“Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.” ― Maria von Trapp

“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
― Albert Einstein

“Music should be your escape.” – Missy Elliott

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” – Maya Angelou

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” – Aaron Copland

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”- Chinese proverb

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Writing

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“In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”-Pearl S. Buck

“That’s what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.”-Anne McCaffrey

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”-Benjamin Franklin

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”- Mahatma Gandhi

“Writing is like travelling. It’s wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.”-Langston Hughes

“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”-Octavia E. Butler

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Simple Sunday- Changes

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“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”- Jimi Hendrix

“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”-Maya Angelou

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”- Viktor E. Frankl

“I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.”- Toni Morrison

“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen – that stillness becomes a radiance.”-Morgan Freeman

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”-Terry Pratchett

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday

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“Your body hears everything your mind says.”- Naomi Judd

“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”- Fred Rogers

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”- Viktor E. Frankl

“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.” – Billie Eilish

“The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.”- Alfred Adler

Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Book quotes

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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.-“ John Locke

“Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.”- Maria Montessori

“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn’t even know existed.”- Mark Haddon

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”- Arthur Schopenhauer

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”- Confucius

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.”-Elie Wiesel

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Thoughtful Thursday- Rainbows

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If you haven’t seen Rainbows Over Michigan yet, go check it out. People are putting up rainbow themed things in their windows for others to see on walks. I plan to make some hearts for our windows tomorrow, but thought rainbows would be cheerful for the blog too!

These are the games that I have at home with me for teletherapy sessions. They just happen to be a rainbow!
The stickers survived the move and are now up in my new office!
Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday

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“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”- Henry David Thoreau

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”- H. G. Wells

“I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”- Florence Nightingale

“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”- Louisa May Alcott

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”- Tom Hiddleston

Wordy Wednesday- More Favorite Books!
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Wordy Wednesday- More Favorite Books!

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Just in case you need some more book ideas, here are some of my favorite books in different categories.

Books from childhood

Books with humor and things to try. (Angry Little Girls is absolutely delightful, but has a lot of swearing, just in case you’d like to avoid that.)

Books that caught me off guard/were very impactful. (Room is now a movie as well. The book is tough and made me cry a lot, so I don’t know if I’d watch it.)

Books for improvement/spirituality/work.

Coloring books!