Inspiration

 is shared

from the heart.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

What is L O V E ?

Love

 is oxygen 

for the soul.
(pass it on...)

~Kim Franklin-Magana

Fragile hearts 

sometimes come wrapped 

in seemingly indestructible packages.

Handle With Care.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

HEART

There never was any heart 

truly great and generous,

that was not also tender and compassionate. 

 ~Robert South

Courtesy

The courtesies of a small and trivial character

are the ones which strike deepest

to the grateful and appreciating heart.

~Henry Clay

Home

Home's not merely roof and room -

It needs something to endear it;

Home is where the heart can bloom,

Where there's some kind lip to cheer it!

~Charles Swain


Charles Swain, "the Manchester Poet," was born in Manchester and educated at a school run by the Unitarian minister William Johns. At the age of fifteen he was employed as a clerk in a dye-house. After 1830 he was employed by an engraving and lithography firm in Manchester. Throughout his long life he devoted himself to literary pursuits, contributing to the Manchester Iris, a literary magazine, and publishing in many of the annuals. Swain was awarded a civil list pension in 1856.
Find out more here:  http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/AuthorRecord.php?&method=GET&recordid=33506

IMAGINE THE POSSIBILITIES - One's Utmost Power!

What lies behind us

and what lies before us

are tiny matters

compared to what lies

within us.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

US essayist & poet (1803-1882)