Ozark Oddments: I go to a garage sale and don't fall down

Friday, September 12, 2008

I go to a garage sale and don't fall down

Yes indeed. My first garage sale since the accident in June, when I fell and fractured a pelvic bone before I barely had a chance to look at the first table of stuff.

I am drawn to blue pottery like a moth to a flame; so naturally, this little gem had to come home with me.

I am a firm believer in putting things to work, even pretty things. So, if it can have a useful function in this house, then it does. In this case the little blue bottle is going to become the container for the Herbes de Provence, which I will sprinkle on the squash when I cook it tonight. As usual when I attempt anything in the kitchen, I make a mess while I try to fill it.

Now, the old canning jar can go back in the cupboard in the pantry, and instead of looking at it, I can appreciate the beauty of this little bottle sitting on top of the spice rack and get some use out of it as well.

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Thoughts to ponder

Most of us go through life so absorbed in the cocoon of ourselves that we rarely stop to consider the other. Of course, we think that we do; indeed, we may pride ourselves on our capacity for empathy; we may be considerate and thoughtful in our dealings with others, but how often do we stand before them. so to speak, and experience what it is to be them?--Domenica Macdonald

The Unbearable Lightness of Scones, by Alexander McCall
Smith

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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering -- because you can't take it in all at once. --Audrey Hepburn

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all, I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.--Agatha Christie

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Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

"Two people... told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were accepted as being the dangerous thing which it is. I wouldn't mind if, when a group of Christians meet for bread and wine, we might well be interrupted and jailed for subversive activities. I wouldn't mind if, once again, we were being thrown to the lions. I do mind, desperately, that the word "Christian" means for so many people smugness, and piosity, and holier-than-thoughness. Who, today, can recognize a Christian because of "how those Christians love one another"?--Madeline L'Engle, "A Circle of Quiet"