A loaf of bread, the Walrus said, is what we chiefly need: pepper and vinegar besides are very good indeed.-- Lewis Carroll

 Spring

Charles Webster Hawthorne 

(January 8, 1872 – November 29, 1930) 

“If a man finds himself with bread in both hands, he should exchange one loaf for some flowers of the narcissus, because the loaf feeds the body, but the flowers feed the soul”
Muhammed, Prophet of Islam

 Daffodils

 We had an exchange student from Kazakhstan living with us for almost a year.  While here she graduated with honors from our local high school.  I had to argue with the principle of the school to allow her to wear a cap and gown and recieve her diploma along with the rest of the graduating class. She, Tina, told us many wonderful stories about her home and family.  One that I found particularly beautiful, and I will quote her:

 "My mother said that bread is so holy that it is okay to stand on the Quran in order to reach it on the shelf."  Tina

Motherhood Triumpant

"Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave."

"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

 Phrophet Muhammed