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Simple Sundays

Simple Sunday- Summer

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“If I had to describe the scent of Michigan in spring and summer, it wouldn’t be a particular smell – blooming wildflowers or boat exhaust off the lake – it would be a color: Green.” – Viola Shipman, The Charm Bracelet

“When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill.”-Taylor Swift

“One of my favourite things about dining outdoors in a warmer season is that it frees hands and bares skin. … When we don’t need to wear or carry heavy clothing, our bodies feel lighter and our hands are freed for other things. Like carrying bottles of rosé; bags of stone fruit, fish, and clams; and a simple kettle and a tiny grill for a quiet, all-day beach excursion. Then we can eat well.”― Kirstin Jackson

“All the season pale in comparison to the excitement and freedom of summer.It’s the one time of the year when I can cut loose and feel like a kid again.Before the responsibilities, before the soul crushing pressure of trying to figure out my future. I can forget my crappy job; I can forget about my even crappier love life. Summer is my superpower.”― T. Torrest, Down the Shore

“By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.”- Helen Hunt Jackson

“Even if you have nothing in your wallet, nothing can keep you from having a great summer. You can listen to crickets sing you to sleep, trace the Big Dipper, breathe in the stars, run through a sprinkler, host a cartwheel contest in the front yard.”-Regina Brett

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Simple Sunday- Home

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“There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”- Jane Austen

“If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.”- Gaston Bachelard

“The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.”- Amelia Earhart

“The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.”-Kin Hubbard

“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”-Charles M. Schulz

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Simple Sunday- Friendship

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“It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.”-Gina Barreca

“No one picks a friend for us; we come together by choice. We are not tied together through ceremony or the responsibility to create a son; we tie ourselves together through moments. The spark when we first meet. Laughter and tears shared. Secrets packed away to be treasured, hoarded, and protected. The wonder that someone can be so different from you and yet still understand your heart in a way no one else will.”― Lisa See, The Island of Sea Women

“The treasure is not only gold, silver, gems, etc. The most important treasure of this world is family and friends.”― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“One and one makes two,’ she declared. ‘And two halves make a whole. And Faithful Friends should be together, never kept apart.”― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins in the Park

“Neither one of the two friends felt any great need of talking. As yet. They had time; summer lay before them, long and full of promises.”― Tove Jansson, Moominsummer Madness

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Simple Sunday- Wine Trip Style

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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”― John Keats

“Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books.” ― Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.”-Joan Collins

“I know I have eaten more good food, drunk more beer and fine wine, had more friends, and seen more of the world than most men ever will.”-Andre The Giant

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Simple Sunday- Love

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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
― Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”― C.S. Lewis

“It’s okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Before this week, I never realized that real-life romance isn’t like the movies. Things don’t have to be so serious and intense all the time. You can have intensely serious feelings for someone and be silly with them. You can go from making out to laughing, and back to making out, and that’s okay.”
― Dallas Woodburn, The Best Week that Never Happened

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Simple Sunday- Summer

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“Summer was a lady who didn’t give up her spotlight easily.”― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“I like summer. I like warmer weather and long days. I’m one of those silly people who still enjoy lying in the sun – my children are horrified!”-Danielle Steel

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.”-C. Day Lewis

“Summer was over in twenty minutes that day. Finished. At four o’clock in the afternoon the roses were quiet on their stems, full-blown, fulfilled; the water in the pool was warm; the leaves on the trees quiet, too, and green. The cat lay with his belly to the sun, steeped in heat.”― Elizabeth Enright, Doublefields: Memories and Stories

“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.”-Regina Brett

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Simple Sunday- Fairies

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“People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.”-Laura Amy Schlitz

“I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you’ve got magic, you’ve got fairies running around, or cryptozoological creatures running around, and I’m pulling very heavily on my background as a folklore major and having done some animation work and all of that, and I’m pulling from the modern fairy tale narrative.”-Seanan McGuire

“Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none knows what may happen. We have stepped forth into the Land of Faerie, but at least we are in the open air.”-Joseph Jacobs

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

“Of course you don’t believe in fairies. You’re fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn’t a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?”― Neil Gaiman, Fables & Reflections

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Simple Sunday- Positivity

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“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”- Maurice Chevalier

“Let’s end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.” -Amy Poehler

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”- Katherine Dunham

“When positivity is the key. You’ll find peace in a cup of tea.” -Munia Khan, Fireclay

“You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.”-Maya Angelou

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Simple Sunday- Independence

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“Independence is happiness.”- Susan B. Anthony

“Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.”-Michelle Obama

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.”-Charlotte Bronte

“Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.”-Maya Angelou

“Our Declaration of Independence was the start of a conversation about how to achieve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for every citizen. Our Constitution was always intended to grow and adapt as we formed a more perfect union, established justice, and ensured peace, security, and the blessings of liberty.”-Kirsten Gillibrand

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Simple Sunday- Dogs Are Love

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“Dogs are actually very smart, it’s just that they’re rather clumsy, but it’s this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.”― Hiromu Arakawa

“Scratching Yogi’s ears Michelle says ‘That’s just part of his job, the comforting. That’s what I mean by the bhatisvata. That he’s more concerned with comforting and helping, even more than his own well-being.” This is a trait that more “people” should encompass.”― Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger than Fiction

“You can’t replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t get more dogs and people in your life.”― Polly Horvath, One Year in Coal Harbor

“Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move…the combination “lean-against nuzzle, with a slight lick and an adoring glance.” In dog-land the move had a degree of difficulty of nine point seven, and as far as I know, there is no known defense against it.”― David Rosenfelt, Leader of the Pack

“It seems to me that the good lord in his infinate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable- hope, jokes, and dogs. But the greatest of these was dogs.”― Robyn Davidson, Tracks: A Woman’s Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback