"Laugh and the world laughs with you,
Weep and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own."

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcos: Solitude (1883) Amer. author/poet.

Ella's inspiration for the poem came after attempting to console a weeping young widow who was travelling on the same train as Ella.

In consoling the widow, Ella had become so bereaved herself that she could barely attend scheduled festivities. She wrote the poem for which she is best known: Solitude. It was published in The New York Sun and later in the book Poems of Passion.

Sources: DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS, Bergen Evans. Photo: Wikipedia.

Lucy Maud Montgomery's home in Leaskdale, Ontario, will be the attraction for fans this October. The LMM Society is hosting a three-day event featuring tours of the church and manse where Lucy made her home and her pastor husband preached. The weekend will include lectures, displays and time to socialize and ask questions.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 13, 14, 15, 2011.

http://www.lucymaudmontgomery.ca/

When one door closes, a better one usually opens!

Love this door on the old train depot in St. Thomas, Norfolk County ~ L. Walker

"The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection."

Bertrand Russell, (1872 - 1970) British philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner English Literature.

(One of our favourite quotations.)

GALLERY

WILLIAM BIDDLE
Great news ~ Coming to Cayuga!

ORIGINALS ~ LTD. ED. PRINTS. DECOR PRINTS ~ FRAMING

Commissions PORTRAIT & OTHER

Classes Available in Dunnville.

Welcome Pam and William Biddle. (Next door to the Post Office on Cayuga Street)

A ~ Z Fiction

Oops ~ Just found five boxes that belong in the middle of the alphabet. . .

Marilyn, thank you.

This is a lot more work than we thought. We are striving for the second week of September ~ after Labour Day. Watch for our usual BALLOONS IN THE WINDOW !!! This achievement will be a new celebration. We want to thank our family and friends for all of their labour and support.

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author, Anna Quindlen writes about books:

"It is not simply that we need information, but that we want to savor it, carry it with us, feel the heft of it under our arm. We like the thing itself.
It is not possible that the book is over. Too many people love it so."

~ Passion for Books, Edited by Harold Rabinowitz & Rob Kaplan. Three Rivers Press, 1999.