May this dress remind us to be hungry for great ideas ....

A healthful hunger for a great idea 

is the beauty and blessedness of life.

 Jean Ingelow

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Jean Ingelow

Jean Ingelow (17 March 1820 – 20 July 1897) was an English poet and novelist, who became suddenly popular in 1863. She also wrote several stories for children.

Her first (anonymous) volume, A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings, which came from an established London publisher, did not appear until her thirtieth year. This was called charming by Tennyson, who declared he should like to know the author; they later became friends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ingelow

Nineteenth-century British poet, novelist, and children's author Jean Ingelow was born in Lincolnshire, England to a banker and his Scottish wife. The family moved to Ipswich and then London, where Ingelow remained throughout her life.

Ingelow began publishing poems in periodicals as a girl, under the pseudonym Orris, and later published some of her work anonymously. Many of her long narrative poems were written in blank verse, with themes of Christian faith and romantic love relayed with a tenderness of emotion. Her work was widely read during her lifetime, and she was known for her charitable “copyright dinners,” in which she hosted her poorer neighbors for dinners paid for with the profits from her books. (such a great idea!!)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jean-ingelow

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May this dress remind us of the wonders of the earth ...

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, 

among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, 

are never alone or weary of life.” 

Rachel Carson

Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century, Rachel Carson (1907-1964) is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. Her sensational book Silent Spring (1962) warned of the dangers to all natural systems from the misuse of chemical pesticides such as DDT, and questioned the scope and direction of modern science, initiated the contemporary environmental movement.

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.

Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award,^[2] recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. This sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the depths.

Late in the 1950s, Carson turned her attention to conservation, especially some problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was the book Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. Although Silent Spring was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDTand other pesticides. It also inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.^[3]Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.

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day81: real beauty

“If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.” 

 Louisa May Alcott

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simply this .... love, mom

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Remember you are beautiful, you are beauty!!

#fromthelandofdragons

"All beautiful things carry distinctions of imperfection. Your wounds and imperfections are your beauty. Like the broken pottery mended with gold, we are all Kintsugi. Its philosophy and art state that breakage and mending are honest parts of a past which should not be hidden. Your wounds and healing are a part of your history; a part of who you are. Every beautiful thing is damaged. You are that beauty; we all are." — Bryant McGill

I love how the universe works . . .

here is a wonderful and (for me) incredibly timely quote that Ginger Armstrong​ shared on FB and that I had not read before.  She posted it with one of my #fromthelandofdragons photos & now I wish to share with this lovely group!  There seems like a beautiful interrelationship in the sharing of inspiration! Thx Ginger!


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May this dress help us to return to ourselves . . . beautiful and strong!

'high tide . . .' wells beach, me (2006)

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, 

return to yourself, 

to who you are, 

here and now 

and when you get there, 

you will discover yourself, 

like a lotus flower in full bloom, 

even in a muddy pond, 

beautiful and strong.”

 Masaru Emoto, Secret Life of Water

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