Author Archives: Laura Dobson

“When you have warfare things happen; people suffer; the noncombatants suffer as well as the combatants. And so it happens in civil war. When your forefathers threw the tea into Boston harbour, a good many women had to go without their tea. It has always seemed to me an extraordinary thing that you did notContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 15th July”

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.” Woody Guthrie (1912 –Continue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 14th July”

“One person, on doing well by others, immediately accounts the expected favour in return. Another is not so quick, but still considers the person a debtor and knows the favour. A third kind of person acts as if not conscious of the deed, rather like a vine producing a cluster of grapes without making furtherContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 13th July”

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil–to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one,Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 12th July”

“Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.” E. B. White (1899Continue reading “Thought for the day, Thursday 11th July”

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903), painter, born on this day

“The storm don’t steer the ship.Storm may push it, toss it, rock it, crack it,even sink it.But it takes a knowing mind and guiding sense to steer a ship toward safety.It takes a memory of the harbor havento guide a body soaked with fear, pushingagainst the wind It takes faith to hold outfor the stormContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 9th July”

“Open our eyes so we may recognise that of God in all those we meet..Open our ears to hear other people’s life stories and, through hearing, understand them better..Open our mouths to speak words of friendship and kindness to strangers..Open our arms to help tear down the barriers of fear that divide one group fromContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 8th July”

“Only the transitory lends itself to description; but what we feel, surmise but will never reach (or know here as an actual happening), the intransitory behind all appearance, is indescribable. That which draws us by its mystic force, what every created thing, perhaps even the very stones, feels with absolute certainty as the centre ofContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 7th July”

“Sometimes we feel that we aren’t in our true home because the person we love isn’t there. We think that if we can be together with our beloved, we’ll feel more at home. But if we have not found our true home, then even when we’re with the person we love, we won’t feel atContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 6th July”