Brantford Parks and Moving to El Valle, Panama

Here is a picture from our garden this year.

Hi everyone sorry I have not posted for a few days now but this will be my last post for for about 3 weeks as we are moving to Panama to retire. It is going to take a while to get internet service figured out so the next time I blog it will be from El Valle, Panama. Two days to go and counting.

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Stop wearing your wishbone

where your backbone ought to be."

-Elizabeth Gilbert

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"The secret of joy in work is contained in

one word-excellence. To know how to

do something well is to enjoy it."

-Pearl S. Buck

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

Outdoor art exhibit at Glenhyrst Art Gallery. This sculpture is made out of welded rebar which is usually used to reinforce concrete in cement structures.

"To act is to affirm the worth of an end."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"There are times to stay put, and what you want

will come to you, and there are times to go out

into the world and find such a thing for yourself."

-Lemony Snicket

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Life is just a chance to grow a soul."

-A. Powell Davies

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly,

despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow,

but through it all I still know quite certainly that

just to be alive is a grand thing."

-Agatha Christie

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Never, never rest contented with

any circle of ideas, but always be certain

that the wider one is still possible."

-Pearl Bailey

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Our deeds determine us

as much as we determine our deeds."

-George Eliot

In Memory of Ali and Tuesday's Inspiration

"No matter how good you get

you can always get better

and that's the exciting part."

-Tiger Woods

Ali

After being a source of entertainment, companionship comfort and healing has passed away. Although in leaving you leave a hole in our hearts, we will strive to forget that and instead remember all the years you brought joy to our lives.

Brantford's Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Have no fear of perfection-

you'll never achieve it."

-Salvador Dali

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

Mistakes are part of the dues

one pays for a full life."

-Sophia Loren

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"Believe there is a greater power silently

working all things for good, behave yourself

and never mind the rest."

-Beatrix Potter

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"People need not fear the unknown

if they are capable of achieving

what they need and want."

-Paulo Coelho

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Do not allow yourselves to be

disheartened by any failures as long

as you have done your best."

-Mother Teresa

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

Peacock Flower Bed.

"Love the moment. Flowers grow out of

dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital.

It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such

moments and to live each, is to succeed."

-Sister Corita Kent

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"They always say that time changes things,

but you actually have to change them yourself."

-Andy Warhol

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"When you have exhausted all possibilities,

remember this-you haven't."

-Thomas Edison

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Pleasure is the only thing to live for.

Nothing ages like happiness.

-Oscar Wilde

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"If you find serenity and happiness,

some may be jealous. Be happy anyway."

-Kent Keith

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Don't compromise yourself.

You're all you've got."

-Janis Joplin

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Just do what you do best."

-Red Auerbach

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are."

-Anais Nin

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Cherish your vision and your dreams

as they are the children of your soul;

the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

-Napoleon Hill

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Think of all the beauty still

left around you and be happy."

-Anne Frank

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"If they can make penicillin

out of mouldy bread, they can sure

make something out of you."

-Muhammad Ali

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"How many cares one loses when one decides

not to be something but to be someone."

-Coco Chanel 

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"The highest form of wisdom is kindness."

-The Talmud

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"Self-knowledge is the

beginning of self-improvement."

-Baltasar Gracian

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

-Lord Byron

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Whether you think you can or think you can't,

either way you're right."

-Henry Ford

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"There is no need to go to India or

anywhere else to find peace. You will find that

deep place of silence right in your room,

your garden or even your Bathtub."

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian friends.

"People, even more than things,

have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,

and redeemed; never throw out anyone."

-Audrey Hepburn

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"The worst thing I can be is the same

as everybody else. I hate that."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"However long the night, the dawn will break."

-African Proverb

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"The truest greatness lies in being kind,

the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Action may not always bring happiness;

but there is no happiness without action."

-Benjamin Disraeli 

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"Your beliefs will be the light by whichFlann

you see, but they will be not what you see

and they will not be a substitute for seeing."

-Flannery O'Connor

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"In three words I can sum up everything

I've learned about life: it goes on."

-Robert Frost

Brantford Parks and the Weekend's Inspiration

"Everyone has his or her own way of

learning things. His way isn't the same

 as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both

in search of our own destinies."

-Paulo Coelho

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"To be what we are, and to become

what we are capable of becoming,

is the only end of life."

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"What do we live for, if it is not to

make life less difficult for each other."

-George Eliot

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Looking forward to things is

half the pleasure of them."

-Lucy Maud Montgomery

Brantford Parks and Tuesday's Inspiration

"What a wonderful life I've had!

I only wished I'd realized it sooner."

-Colette

Brantford Parks and Monday's Inspiration

"Dream as if you'll live forever...

live as if you'll die today."

-James Dean

Brantford Parks and Friday's Inspiration

"We all live with the objective of

Being happy; our lives are all different

and yet the same."

-Anne Frank

Brantford Parks and Thursday's Inspiration

"Take the time to come home

to yourself everyday."

-Robin Casarjean

Brantford Parks and Wednesday's Inspiration

"Your vision will become clear

only when you look into your heart.

Who looks outside, dreams.

Who looks inside, awakens."

-Carl Jung