Another day dawning
Life’s open highway
Relax, enjoy the ride
Searching hidden byways
Each byway, something new
Life’s treasured adventures
Unwind, take each one in
Tasting newfound ventures
Every venture smiles
Life’s tempo never slows
Marvel, each sweet blessing
Smelling one tender rose
Single rose shares fragrance
Life’s memories accrue
Smile, waiting in the wings
Finding tomorrow’s clue
Tomorrow’s whistle sounds
Life’s train steaming ahead
Relax, enjoy the ride
Dreaming, asleep in bed
This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
Rain falls at a maximum speed of eighteen miles per hour.
Both President Lyndon Johnson and tenor Luciano Pavarotti spent several years as elementary school teachers after graduating from college.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
Work hard. Be humble, and I think that will serve you well in life.
There is nothing more important to a democracy than an active and engaged press.
There is nothing more important in any life than the constantly enjoyed presence of the Lord. For without it we shall make mistakes, and without it we shall be defeated.
From Psalm 139:7-10: “Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast.”
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Resolve to edge in a little reading each day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann (1796-1859) was committed to educational reform in the United States. One of his most passionate causes was for the establishment of universal public education for America’s children.
Glorious sunrise
Serenity awakens—
Morning’s peace dawning
Morning feeding time
Nature’s chaotic rhythm—
Bird feeder invites
Dog days of summer
Mercury ready to burst—
Appetite heats up
Renewing dry, parched landscape
Resurrecting nature’s shape
Refreshing rain offers grace
Restoring peace to this place
Restarting with single drop
Reopening life’s closed shop
Reaffirming rain calling
Rallying lifeline falling
Recommitting faithful hand
Reassuring thirsty land
Reviving lost paradise
Rebounding rain’s special spice
Relieving vast acres’ stress
Rejuvenating success
Renovating rain’s duty
Recapturing land’s beauty
Rekindling valley’s lost spark
Reflecting light over dark
Repairing nature’s lost soul
Remaking her glory whole
This nature-rich poem is crafted with a different style. Beginning each verse with an “R” word as inspired by “refreshing rain,” offers a challenge for my poetic pen.
This informative post will be posted on Saturday along with my usual writing. We can all appreciate some of the lesser known facts from around the world.
The Batmobile was built on the chassis of a Chevy Impala.
Charles Dow, the financial report who founded The Wall Street Journal and created the Dow Jones Industrial Average, never graduated from high school.
These facts have been discovered in I NEVER KNEW THAT by David Hoffman (2009).
Peace is not something you wish for; it’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.
There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) remains one of America’s most influential voices in the public arena of civil rights. These quotes came from a speech given at the Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967 (almost exactly a year before his tragic assassination).
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