Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

(Scott Russell Sanders, Writing from the Center)

http://www.siue.edu/OSME/river/RiverQuotes/RiverQ1.htm

I stand by the river and I know that it has been here yesterday and will be here tomorrow and that therefore, since I am part of its pattern today, I also belong to all its yesterdays and will be a part of all its tomorrows. This is a kind of earthly immortality, a kinship with rivers and hills and rocks, with all things and all creatures that have ever lived or ever will live or have their being on the earth. It is my assurance of an orderly continuity in the great design of the universe. 

(Virginia Eifert)

http://www.rivers.gov/quotations.html

FOTO – BOATHOUSE ON THE KALANG RIVER IN URUNGA.

"From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork."

Albus Dumbledore

foto – january 2012 horses going home

Bedouin. When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the Wind condensed.

DECEMBER 25 2011 : Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we are here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid. « the GEM COLLECTION 2011.

via DECEMBER 25 2011 : Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we are here for something else besides ourselves. Eric Sevareid. « the GEM COLLECTION 2011.

http://www.worldconsortium.com/quotes.htm

“Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn’t try it on.” – Billy Connolly

http://www.wondersoftea.com/tea-quotes

THIS IS MY VERY FAVOURITE QUOTE SITE

Time Quotes and Sayings.

Thich Nhat Hanh.

When glory has its day the world will greet a rising sun
A world awoken to no fighting nor the sound of guns
Men will shake each others hand and live for love and peace
All countries will unite as one
The fighting will all cease.

‘Dawn of Hope ‘ by Aaron McPhail.

FRUIT IN SEASON 3: IN AUTUMN I TAKE UP MY KNIFE

The view from the kitchen sink takes in the garden,
the fence, the tall trees in the valley, the children shouting
and crying, the feijoa tree, shedding its fruit,
like large green tears, or bullets big as a human heart.
Each swipe of the dish-sponge is anger or regret,
choices have consequences, consequences constrict
to the tightness of skin on a fruit, this feijoa
I slice into, savagely, and stop. Pineapple-scented.
The soft, fragrant jelly within.

© 2009, Miriam Wei Wei Lo

Last night, my Sister passed away.

SUSAN ( SANDERS) POMROY. 26 May 1952 – 17 February 2911.

Duane Short, April 21, 2002, Water Trick Stone

http://www.rivers.gov/quotations.html

Any one wounded by a Sting Ray, which often happens in catching sand-eels, will feel the pain of the wound very severely till the next tide.

A provincial glossary

foto – flynn’s beach jan 2011

A provincial glossary

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.  (Edward Abbey)

http://www.rivers.gov/quotations.html

foto – hastings river port macquarie jan 2011

Fairies appear to have all the passions and wants of men ; but are great lovers of cleanliness and propriety; for the observance of which they frequently reward servants, by dropping money in their shoes : they likewise severely punish sluts and slovens, by pinching them black and blue.

"A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions"

foto – port macquarie jan 2011

http://www.beautiful-chiangmai.com/thailand/birds/birds_proverbs.htm

It is held extremely unlucky to kill a cricket, a lady-bug, a swallow, martin, robin red-breast, or wren ; perhaps from its being a breach of hospitality ; all those birds and insects taking refuge in houses.

"A provincial glossary; with a collection of local proverbs, and popular superstitions"

foto – kookaburra and pigeon in raleigh nsw jan 2011

TO ALL OF YOU, I WISH A HAPPY CHRISTMAS. ITS BEEN A PLEASURE HAVING YOU WITH ME ALL YEAR.

And always a rainbow serpent remembers ancient days.

Samara Flynn, Age 12
Grafton Public School, Grafton NSW

A hen in Skaw is a gös at Moola.
Carried tales have a way of growing.

SHETLAND.

http://www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/proverbs-and-sayings

foto – chook at raleigh 2010

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller.

http://www.best-quotes-poems.com/giving-quotes.html

foto – stop light at central railway station sydney

"Those were summers when the heart quivered up from the hot yellow gravel and pierced the plaited rushes
of my wide-brimmed hats, summers almost without nights.  For even then I so loved the dawn that my mother
granted it to me as a reward.  She used to agree to wake me at half past three and off I would go, an empty
basket on each arm, towards the kitchen gardens that sheltered in the narrow bend of the river, in search of
strawberries, black currants, and hairy gooseberries."
Colette

http://www.egreenway.com/months/monjul.htm

foto – dining ensemble in sydney

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen. Anonymous.

Nana K. Gyasi Jnr.

foto – kitchen in annandale