Cathy Burnham Martin's Blog, page 28

“Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos. “

— Don Kardong (1948 – )
American author

Photo by Andrey Tikhonovskiy

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

— Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 1968)
American Baptist minister & civil rights activist

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller (1880 – 1968)
American author, political activist, and disability rights advocate

Some mornings are more dear (deer) than others. LOL! Mom and her first-year twin fawns were romping beside our kitchen deck today. They play like puppies.

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it.  Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.  Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people?  Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”

— Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
American statesman
16th President: 1861-65; first Republican president; assassinated following Civil War

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“The mind is like water. When it’s turbulent, it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.”

— Presad Mahes
Canadian marketer

Photo by Jellleke Vanooteghem

‘Tis beautiful to turn the page to a clean sheet of paper. Reset. Realign. Restart. Redo. Just breathe.

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

— Anthony J. D’Angelo(1955 – )
American author

Continued prayers for all in the U.S. Southeast. Florida suffered great losses from Milton. Several states, especially western North Carolina, continue efforts to recover from Helene’s devastation. For example, more than half of the city of Asheville, NC continues to struggle without power and workers endeavor mightily to tame crazed rivers and rebuild washed-out roads and collapsed highways.

A lot of cleanup continues and restoration begins in western NC. We have been blessed by neighbors and friends showing up to work on our great many fallen oak trees, all of which were taller than our house is long! But amidst all the challenges that Helene left in her wake, there are some Wowza moments. Case in point, the photo our neighbor snapped of this elk in our pasture. There are some 200 elk in North Carolina, but this gem was displaced by the storm and its flooding, as we are in the foothills. Elk tend to stay up in the mountains, particularly the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, west of Asheville. (We are southeast of Asheville.) So, Mill Spring in little Polk County got a Wowza moment!

“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”

— Stephen King (1947 – )
American horror author