7.12.10
paint
Every day you may make progress.Every step may be fruitful. Yetthere will stretch out before youan ever-lengthening, ever-ascending,ever-improving path. You know youwill never get to the end of the journey.But this, so far from discouraging,only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.
winston churchill
5.12.10
so we very quickly learned to be absolutely quiet about it
"Since people didn't deal with children and things like that,
it would have been considered a nonsubject or a silly one.
And at the time, when we said we studied nursery rhymes,
we were considered an oddity. So we very quickly learned
to keep absolutely quiet about it. Also, had we been to
university, we would have realized that everybody knew
so much, but because we didn't know what was and wasn't
permissible and possible, we just went forward. (Iona
learned German and Italian in order to work on our books.)
And, equally, we were not only enthusiastic but also self-
critical; we went on criticizing ourselves until we felt that
there couldn't be much wrong with what we were doing."
images:m. goose 1691, rare book buyeralphabet, sc libraries& street football, gubog
focus
"...it's a daily task:
Focus on the good and the things you can change/improve in your life.
Appreciate what you have and surround yourself with good people.
Live in the moment."
via two favorites (together):
photo via another favorite:little augury (whom i believe lives by the motto above)
+ another bday shout-out to my beloved [favorite] sister,who's taught me worlds about these very concepts. xox.
3.12.10
happy, happy days
wishing a most joyful weekend
to both of our sweet birthday girls
(and everyone who wanders by the
little blog for the next few days)
photo: herriott grace
more carter berg
imperfect postcards V
a little christmas from mary randolph carter:
"Last Christmas day my sister Nell and I dragged in this long weather-worn trestle table from outside and set it up in the front hall of Muskettoe Pointe Farm. There would be forty of us for our sit-down holiday dinner, so it was a last-minute solution! My father had built it and another years ago for one of our weddings. Mother said no one would sit there because it was off the beaten track, i.e. not in the main dining room near the tree and open fire. Her instincts are usually right, but not that night. It was the most popular seat in the house. I think because it was something new and totally improvised. A few hours before dinner began, my son Carter caught the imperfect table perfectly!"
photo: carter berg
2.12.10
imperfect postcards IV
1.12.10
imperfect postcards [and splendid lovely style court]
from mary randolph carter:
"This pic from the book (page 213) was taken by my son Carter Berg in his blue Ford pick-up that he lets me borrow to go junking. From the looks of it and the smile on my face it was a successful hunt! I am wearing my favorite old torn-up black and blue checked flannel quilted work shirt that I bought over twenty years ago in a local work wear kind of store. It's so comfortable and comforting."
[there's a truly wonderful post
at style court today. courtney
has chronicled mary randolph
carter's holiday workshop, here.
imperfectly magnificent holiday fun.
style court's earlier & equally
superb post is here.
a pure delight!
vt]
imperfect postcards from mary randolph carter (a series)
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