Charity...

Charity may begin at home, 

however 

it does not end at home.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

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Baking Bread...

Baking bread is one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread. ~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating

All sorrows are less with bread. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

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.
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