Wren Helmericks is a storyteller, thinker, reader and writer. She reads tarot as a part of all those pieces.
She also brings her guitar a few times each week to different groups content with a cheerful availability and heart to share the music.
"How can I keep from singing?"
"Halflings!" laughed the Rider that stood beside Eomer. "Halflings! But they are only a little people in old songs and children's tales out of the North. Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?"
"A man may do both," said Aragorn. "The green earth say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"
(Lord of the Rings , Book Three )
"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
A word is dead
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself."
--Tolstoy
Oh, man, now I’m all snotty. :)
Those must be homeschooling moms.
That was my thought too.
Awww….great link. Just wanted to say – I’ve also done the ‘skip ahead to the good parts’ thing…:) This writing stuff definitely keeps us humble, doesn’t it?