Monday Morning Wake-Up Call

~ Live & Learn

It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing.

What is most beautiful is least acknowledged.

What is worth dying for is barely noticed.

— Laura McBride, We Are Called to Rise: A Novel

Photo: Patty Maher, with The Red String. “Based on the Japanese legend that a red string ties us to all those with whom we will make history and all those whom we will help in one way or another.”  Laura McBride quote from A Sea of Quotes.

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      1. My mom tied one on my wrist (and my sister’s) at birth – a form of protection (the superstition being that if the string ever breaks, it has served to protect you from some great harm). It’s a Kabbalistic ritual, I think, and the string is called a ‘bindel’ (I think that’s the spelling). Anyway, whenever it breaks, I tie another one on my left wrist – what the heck, a little extra protection can’t hurt…😉

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  14. Love in action…/// made me think of silver cord…
    Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 King James Version (KJV)

    6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
    7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
    and You know how I love the work of Patty Maher who features some Red Heads…this one in the blue dress has Raggedy Ann doll, Red Straw Hair…

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  15. Love in action…/// made me think of silver cord…
    Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 King James Version (KJV)

    6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
    7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
    and You know how I love the work of Patty Maher who features some Red Heads…this one in the blue dress has Raggedy Ann doll, Red Straw Hair…

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      1. I think in the past I said something years ago about “Raggedy Ann doll, Red Straw Hair”…in another one of your offerings that used a photo by Patty Maher who also paints!

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