Desktop Retreat

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
~Thomas Carlyle

2 comments:

HeidiInHolland said...: What a beautiful saying. It echos how the little things that often go by with no notice and yet they grow to become big.

Hugs from Holland ~
Heidi; December 3, 2013 at 11:19 AM
Connie said...: What a lovely quote!; December 3, 2013 at 4:20 PM

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Guerrilla Reading

Turn off the TV

Turn off the computer

Turn off the game console

Always have a book with you to read ~

~before going to sleep

~before getting up

~in the bathtub

~while waiting for your ride

~while on the bus/train/plane

~while dinner is cooking

~while exercising (audiobooks!)

~while driving (ditto)

~while waiting for an appointment

~while baby is napping

~after kids are in bed

~with kids

~to kids

~while eating lunch

~while eating breakfast

~at the cottage (dock, hammock, screen porch)

~while walking

~while waiting for kids in the mom & dad taxi

~on a park bench

~instead of housework

~in the bathroom

~while on hold on the phone

~on the porch with a cocktail

~ . . . ?

~ . . . ?

~ . . . ?