Category: Living for the Weekend

“There will be peace in the valley for me, someday; there will be peace in the valley for me, oh Lord I pray. There’ll be no sadness, no sorrow, no trouble, trouble I see. There will be peace in the valley for me.” Thomas Dorsey “He that would live in peace and at ease must […]

“When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics….” Dr. Martin Luther King On election night, […]

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and most needs have desires, let these be your desires: to melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night; to know the pain of too much tenderness; to be wounded by your own understanding of love; […]

“Monday to Thursday, I’m dead on my feet most of the time, too tired to eat. When I try to read the paper, I fall fast asleep. But as soon as Friday rolls around I lay all my weekly burdens down, I put on my glad rags and paint the town. I am ‘living for […]

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love; Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf; sing and dance together and be joyous, but let […]

“To every man there comes a time when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a great and mighty work; unique to him and fitted to his talents; what a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the moment that could be his finest hour.” Winston […]

“And now, the end is here and so I face the final curtain my friend, I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s full. I traveled each and ev’ry highway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.” It was fun and sun […]

“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally. “Somewhere over the rainbow” The rainy day cast a magnificent rainbow over the wedding celebration of Napoleon and Christy Sykes at the […]

“Do not stand at my grave and weep  I am not there. I do not sleep.  I am a thousand winds that blow.  I am the diamond glints on snow.  I am the sunlight on ripened grain.  I am the gentle autumn rain.  When you awaken in the morning’s hush  I am the swift uplifting […]

“I hope that my achievements in life shall be these; that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered and that I will have given help to those who were in need, that I will have left the earth a better place for what […]