Spring painting By Ginger Strivelli
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We celebrated Spring Equinox with another APA lunch meeting.
We are also planning to celebrate Beltane with a full on gathering,
with our infamous maypole in a spare tire ‘Appalachian’ May day tradition.
We continue to network and fellowship on the facebook chat group as well.
--------------------Quotes to ponder:------------------------
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory." Leonard Nimoy’s final tweet.
“Nature Itself is the best Physician”--- Hippocrates
“The trouble is, you think you have time.”---Buddha
“Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping it will transform into a door” Coco Chanel
"Forth shall we fare where the fray is thickest, where friends and fellows 'gainst foemen battle!"
—The Song of the Valkyries: 5
You have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness. (Much Ado About Nothing)
I’ve decided to be happy, because it is good for my health- Voltaire
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” ---Epicurus
“Never be afraid to send prayers to others who are having difficult times in this living world
because it provides you inner strength as well as the receiver.” Tony Ten Fingers
-----------------------FROM OUR BOOK OF SHADOWS:-----------------------
Invocation of death
By Terri King:
Oh, Dark Spectre of Death, I fear thee not,
For I have yet to dance in your cool embrace
I have felt not your icy fingers though they yearn for me
I have danced in the moonlight and swam as the sun shines on the ocean
and I given you no notice.
Thou are not a spiteful ghost or vengeful haunt as some would say.
I regard you with no more fear than the passing of time
and I have tossed you away with a shrug.
So when the wheel turns north and I stand
to face the cold blackness of imminent repose.
I will not tremble with fear.
For thou are not an evil demon sent to steal my soul away,
but a guide, that has come to carry me home.
