“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
Wendell Berry, Remembering
Friday Reflection
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
George Gordon Byron
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Friday Reflection
“May you live every day of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
GRAND-PRÉ NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE
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
Friday Reflection
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius
Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia