Author Archives: Laura Dobson

World Day to combat desertification and drought “I want the future to extend before me like the horizonwidening as I walk. I want the blue sierra that I plantedsquatting over the child in my wombto grow into a thick tangled hedgerich with blossoms and bees buzzing like crazy.I want the smell to make someone’s greatContinue reading “Thought for the day, Saturday 17th June”

“Before there was a trace of this world of men,I carried a memory of a lock of your hair,A stray end gathered within me, though unknown.Inside that invisible realm,Your face like the sun longed to be seen,Until each separate object was finally flung into light.From the moment of Time’s first-drawn breath,Love resides in us,A treasureContinue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 16th June”

“To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.” Magna Carta clause 40, signed on this day in 1215 at Runnymede (pictured)

“Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.” Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, born on this day in 1811

“Happiness cannot be found through great effort and willpower,but is already there, in relaxation and letting go. Don’t strain yourself, there is nothing to do.Whatever arises in the mind has no importance at all,because it has no reality whatsoever.Don’t become attached to it.Don’t pass judgement. Let the game happen on its own, springing and fallingContinue reading “Thought for the day, Tuesday 13th June”

“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieveContinue reading “Thought for the day, Monday 12th June”

“There are no boundaries in the real Planet Earth. No United States, no Soviet Union, no China, no Taiwan…Rivers flow unimpeded across the swaths of continents. The persistent tides – the pulse of the sea – do not discriminate; they push against all the varied shores on Earth… The sea, the great unifier, is man’sContinue reading “Thought for the day, Sunday 11th June”

“Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.” Hattie McDaniel born on this day in 1893 (first African American actress to win an Oscar, for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind)

Feast of St Columba “One day, when Columba was visiting a graveyard in Iona, he saw an old woman cutting nettles.‘Why are you cutting nettles?’ asked Columba.‘Dear father,’ she replied; ‘I have only one cow, and it has not yet borne a calf. So in the meantime I am living on soup made from nettles.’Continue reading “Thought for the day, Friday 9th June”

“1. An honest ego in a healthy body Frank Lloyd Wright, architect and Unitarian, born on this day in 1867