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Weekly Top Posts: 2025-02-02
2025-02-02 05:00 UTC

  1. Should I Share More Recipes?
  2. A Thing that is Beautiful
  3. Gabriel and the Word Embarrassed
  4. A Flower is Not Flower
  5. Stepping Outside

Brocante Stories: The Medal and The Sugar Bowl
2025-02-01 11:00 UTC by Corey

Sugar-bowl

Photos and text by Corey Amaro

This was the sugar bowl that shattered on the red tile floor when it fell from Mademoiselle Elise’s hand back in 1916.

Locket man with beret

This was Mademoiselle Hoped-to-be-Husband, Pierre-Louis. Often she told her children how handsome their father looked the day she placed her necklace around his neck and whispered in his...

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Be Brave
2025-01-31 11:00 UTC by Corey

We don’t have to have all the answers right now.

We have to be brave enough to keep going,

pick up the pieces, and see how they fit together.

Life isn’t perfect, and it’s certainly is unfair.


The challenge is we get to create something from this wildness.

That’s the gift.

Winter Daily Walk
2025-01-30 11:00 UTC by Corey

« Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. «  Rabindranath Tagore

« Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. »

Henry David Thoreau...

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Stepping Outside
2025-01-29 11:00 UTC by Corey

The avenues in my daily life-

French culture swallows me whole, deliciously

A Flower is Not Flower
2025-01-28 11:00 UTC by Corey

A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements – sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower.

Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching:...

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A Thing that is Beautiful
2025-01-27 11:00 UTC by Corey

“Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them” -D.H.Lawrence

A friend sent me the quote above so I wanted to add it here in full excerpt...

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