Thought for Today ~
"I love the winter, with its imprisonment and its cold, for it compels the prisoner to try new fields and resources. I love to have the river closed up for a season and a pause put to my boating, to be obliged to get my boat in. I shall launch it again in the spring with so much more pleasure. This is an advantage in point of abstinence and moderation compared with the seaside boating, where the boat ever lies on the shore. I love best to have each thing in its season only, and enjoy doing without it at all other times. It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. I find it invariably true, the poorer I am, the richer I am. What I consider my disadvantage, I consider my advantage."
~ Henry David Thoreau, An American Landscape. Selected Writings from His Journals, Edited by Robert L. Rothwell.Paragon House, 1991.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
Rum Running on Lake Erie ~
For more information, contact Margaret at 905-768-5525 or Betty at 905-899-3859. Haldimand County Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society.
Ian Bell, Curator/director of Port Dover Harbour Museum
will present "Blind Pigs, Midnight Herring"
Tuesday, April 2, 1:30 p.m.
Haldimand County Museum, Cayuga.
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| Peaceful Port Dover Today |
Sunday, March 24, 2013
by Robert Louis Stevenson
The coach is at the door at last'
The eager children, mounting fast
And kissing hands, in chorus sing:
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
To house and garden, field and lawn,
The meadow-gates we swang upon,
To pump and stable, tree and swing,
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
And fare you well for evermore,
O ladder at the hayloft door,
O hayloft where the cobwebs cling,
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
Crack goes the whip, and off we go;
The trees and houses smaller grow;
Last, round the woody turn we swing:
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
~ A Child's Garden of Verses, published in 1885. RLS was born in Scotland (1850 - 1894) Regarded as classics: Treasure Island, The Master of Ballantrae and Kidnapped.
A Child's Garden of Verses was slowly put together by Stevenson as a diversion from his fictional work ~ as his wife comments, he "plucked a blossom here and there..." Based largely on his own childhood it is an inspiring collection which has captured the imaginations of children for generations.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
"Honest Winter, snow-clad, and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; But that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping gloom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honour of May how often has it robbed me of heart and hope?"
Friday, March 22, 2013
Winston Churchill ~ On Writing
There is a story that an American general once asked Churchill to look over the draft of an address he had written. It was returned with the comment 'Too many passives and too many zeds.' The general asked him what he meant, and was told: 'Too many Latinate polysyllabics like "systematize", "prioritize" and "finalize". And then the passives. What if I had said, instead of "We shall fight on the beaches", "Hostilities will be engaged with our adversary on the coastal perimeter"?'
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
~ The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, Compiled by Dominique Enright, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., England, 2001. (Churchill 1874 - 1965)
www.winstonchurchillcanada.ca The annual Winston Churchill dinner will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Albany Club of Toronto. Speaker: Terry Reardon, author of Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King, So Similar, So Different.
There is a story that an American general once asked Churchill to look over the draft of an address he had written. It was returned with the comment 'Too many passives and too many zeds.' The general asked him what he meant, and was told: 'Too many Latinate polysyllabics like "systematize", "prioritize" and "finalize". And then the passives. What if I had said, instead of "We shall fight on the beaches", "Hostilities will be engaged with our adversary on the coastal perimeter"?'
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
~ The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, Compiled by Dominique Enright, Michael O'Mara Books Ltd., England, 2001. (Churchill 1874 - 1965)
www.winstonchurchillcanada.ca The annual Winston Churchill dinner will be held on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Albany Club of Toronto. Speaker: Terry Reardon, author of Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King, So Similar, So Different.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Join Neil Paul today in The Neat Little Bookshop ~ 1:00 p.m. Neil will read from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Informal Round Table discussion.
We reserve the Third Thursday of each month for An Afternoon With The Authors
Retired from teaching, Neil is the author of A Small Volume; he frequently speaks to organizations and groups.
We reserve the Third Thursday of each month for An Afternoon With The Authors
Retired from teaching, Neil is the author of A Small Volume; he frequently speaks to organizations and groups.
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