Sufi saying

‎Before you speak,

let your words pass through three gates.
At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’
At the second ask, ‘Is it necessary?’
At the third gate ask ‘Is it kind?’

more tea?

Arabic Proverb

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

Seven Major Problems

Wall painting by John Tremblay, 2010

A little R-N-R never hurt anybody

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

John Lubbock

Let the refining and improving begin!

Time

No matter how it's viewed, it's still time and it waits for no one.

Hour glass charm

12 hour and 24 hour clock in one

Sigurd F. Olson Quote

Joys come from simple and natural things: mist over meadows, sunlight on leaves,

the path of the moon over water.

Even rain and wind and stormy clouds

bring joy.