Wednesday, August 24, 2011

IN MEMORY OF NORMA
Contribution by Marg Lyons


MY SYMPHONY

To live content with small means:
To seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion.

To study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly;

To listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages, with open heart;

To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely,
await occasions, hurry never;

In a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common;

This is my symphony.

William Henry Channing

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