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- To Cathy on her 70th Birthday - Todd And His Bride With love from Maida “Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.” – Sonnet 116 – Shakespeare I watched my brother fall in love. My older brother Todd was always good.
+ Read More - Ready - by Maida Korte “Poor Mole stood alone in the road, his heart torn asunder, and a big sob gathering, somewhere low down inside him, to leap up to the surface presently, he knew, in passionate escape…………the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and finally claimed him imperiously…” – Kenneth Grahame According
+ Read More - Small Things - by Maida Korte “To create something exceptional, your mind-set must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.” Giorgio Armani I love the harmony that details create in a space. See that carved corbel at the hallway ceiling in an old pine wood that is split and worn? It almost feels random, but this leads
+ Read More - Hiding Places - by Maida Korte “I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.”― Richelle E. Goodrich Lurking behind the walls of our ‘getting older by the minute’ home were multiple hard to get at problems. In the basement there was mildew growing
+ Read More - The Wood Beneath Our Feet - “Why don’t we go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis played.” – John McEnroe by Maida Korte Stepping with bare feet onto an old wood floor feels natural, as though it is something our feet have been looking for all their life. Smooth not for the sanding, but for
+ Read More - Town - “Who doesn’t know what I’m talking aboutWho’s never left home, who’s never struck outTo find a dream and a life of their ownA place in the clouds, a foundation of stone.” Perched at the top of a crest in the road, our house stood like an old-world relic, proudly greeting all who ventured up
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- Counting and other Past-Times - Organizing our minds allows us access to our emotions.
- Expertise at Home - By Maida Korte “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”― Abraham Lincoln My mother once told me that upon dying, the very first thing she was going to do in heaven was to perform a tremendous
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- https://intellectualtakeout.org/2023/03/dressing-as-if-it-matters-korte/ -
- Sentimental Clutter - My paper project has taken me from the present to the past and back again.
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