Susan's Books and Gifts

Month: May 2013

  • Hold Fast Your Dreams poem by Louise Driscoll. Dreaming amidst suffering. (May 2013)

    Susan’s Thursday Note May 30, 2013 Lousie Driscoll Poem (written during WW1 on dreaming amidst extreme suffering) Good morning.  So still to begin the day.  Perfect filler with a little coffee.  Little whosit learning that his mom isn’t where he practices his sword fighting on this early.  The angel of dawn has arrived.  How will…

  • St. Frances de Sales and St. Francis of Assisi Quotes. Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio taking name Pope Francis. (March 2013)

    Susan’s Thursday Note March 14, 2013 Quotes from St. Francis of Assisi and St. Francis de Sales   Good morning!  I’m standing guard of my second strong cup of filler with coffee for a certain little whosit believes the cats would love to have their share.  Dishoovled cranes are flying overhead squawking at their leader.  Little…

  • Elderly friend who loved us as a child dying. Passage of time. “Local Wonders by Ted Kooser” (May 2013 & Mar 2007)

    Good morning!  Calm.  Quiet.  The perfect few moments before life enters the day.  How I love this daily gift from the angel of dawn.  Stillness.  Reflection.  Perfect filler with a little coffee added in.  Yesterday someone I loved dearly died from illness.  I wrote about how I loved her in 2007 on one of my notes when…

  • Missing mother’s love as an adult woman. “Rock Me to Sleep” poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen (May 2013)

    Good morning!  What a PERFECT morning.  So still.  No little train engineers awake yet.  Extra filler with a little coffee added in.  Birds incredibly out of tune, making me feel even more as if all is right in my world.  I thought my fan was squeaking or a cricket was in the house & when I followed the…