“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
Friday Reflection
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”
Roy T. Bennett
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Émile Zola
Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martinique Beach, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
T.S. Eliot
Clock Tower Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.”
Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education
Halifax Public Gardens, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.”
Andrew Carnegie
Halifax Library, Halifax Nova Scotia
Friday Reflection
“What we do now echoes in eternity.”
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia