“May you live every day of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
GRAND-PRÉ NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
Friday Reflection
Friday Reflection
“Our archives are treasure troves – a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.”
Sara Sheridan
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
Martinique Beach, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. ”
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
Halifax Public Library
Friday Reflection
“We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.”
James Michael Pratt, The Lighthouse Keeper
Peggy’s Cove
Friday Reflection
“Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.”
Hermann Broch
Martinique Beach, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
Heraclitus, Fragments
Halifax Waterfront
Friday Reflection
“The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Dalhousie University
Friday Reflection
“When we lose our myths, we lose our place in the universe.”
Madeleine L’Engle
Flora
Halifax Public Gardens – Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia