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When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were swaddled in them from the cradle to the grave, their daily actions in large part determined by them - so many things you would not think of doing, like starting a journey on a Friday, or looking at the moon through a pane of glass, or failing to wear something new on Whitsunday - their minds haunted by ghosts and fears, you have a fair idea of what the minds of these people in the sixteenth century were like. It was a life full of shadows that frightened them and dangers that might come home to them; how much more so in those days when their fears had the sanction, and even the corroboration, of the elect and the intelligent: when a uniform religion existed to enforce its lessons and draw the moral. However, no doubt it filled up life for them, made it more interesting and exciting, more mysterious and incalculable; it added a dimension to it, where the modern uneducated, rid of their fears and ghosts, are apt to find life empty and void of meaning.


A.L. Rowse


#psychology #superstition #home

Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow, Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow, Let our flight be far in sun or blowing rain-- But what if I heard my first love calling me again? Hold me on your heart as the brave sea holds the foam, Take me far away to the hills that hide your home; Peace shall thatch the roof and love shall latch the door-- But what if I heard my first love calling me once more?


Sara Teasdale


#home

I'm not here only just for a visit; but I'm here cuz' i knew I'm HOME.


kent Ian N. Cny


#insightful #insights #inspiration #home

Therapy dogs visit people in nursing homes, hospitals, and wherever else they are needed. They cheer people up who are sad or lonesome and just need a furry friend to hug.


Martha McKiever


#inspirational #therapy-dogs #home

You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.


Christopher McCandless


#home

You need me to inspire you and remind you how wonderful you are. You need me to kiss you." He lowered his head and pressed his lips on her neck. "You need me to love you." "But more than that," he continued, "I need you. I need you to come home to. I need you to talk to and laugh with. I need you to love me back.


Kate Perry


#her #him #home #kate-perry #laugh

I am disgusted that I was often taken into their bed and told to do things to both of them. The things a decent parent wouldn't think of. I didn't know that having sex with her or with him was wrong because I'd never known anything else but I never understood why it used to hurt so much. It carried on right until she died and I am sure that if she was still alive it would still be going on now. I wished someone would help me and stop them hurting me. I tried to do what they told me to do because somethings they were nice to me if I did it properly." - Graham talks about being sexually abused by his mother (and her boyfriend) Graham was sexually abused by his mother. The only person who showed him any affection in his childhood was his grandmother. "My mother always told me the police would think I was a 'dirty little bastard' if I told them and they would take me away to a children's home and I would never see grandmother again." "I knew it was my fault and nobody would believe me." - Graham Children often do not tell about abuse because of their fears about how other people will respond. The most common fear is that they will not be believed, It is a child's word against an adult's and the adult may be well liked and respected in the community. Nowadays, because of the television and newspaper coverage, people are aware that child sexual abuse does happen. In the recent past it was thought to be a rare occurrence, so even if they were trusted adults around for a child to tell, the adult would probably have found it difficult to believe and would have little idea what to do about it.


Carolyn Ainscough


#child-rape #child-sexual-abuse #sexual-abuse #survivor #victim

One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.


John Green


#life #life-lessons #home

Permaculture Guilds - How to Grow Far more in Your Back garden Permaculture guilds are an extension cord of a typical gardening technique called companion planting. Partner planting is utilized in home horticulture to increase the particular yield a specific area produces in a period. While permaculture guilds are nearly exclusively used in permaculture, companion grape planting is more popular. It's often utilized in traditional permaculture growing plants, and actually, the grandmothers understood a thing or two about companion planting. Aside from the promise of higher produces, there are many much more potential benefits of companion grape planting. Industrial farming focuses intensely on monoculture. You can find vast places, acres and also acres, of merely one crop! Your machines are typical built with just one purpose to plow, sow and after that harvest these kind of monotonous lands. Without treadmills these monoculture areas would not be capable be maintained. And dynamics would be glad. Nature won't like to be dull. Take a do for example. The sheer number of species developing there is over and above count. And that is a very promising habitat with regard to other beast to flourish in. You have birds, insects, beetles, reptiles, earthworms,... all residing in harmony. Now take a corn field. Besides the single plant of ingrown toenail that is there during the growing season, in which land is dead. There isn't any worms, birds, bugs right now there. After a few years, the actual birds will not come even after plowing. That's because your soil is completely dead. The only real reason the particular corn expands there are your synthetic manure that are used by... yes, far more machines. Now, what permaculture really does is it uses nature's instance. It takes a forest as being a role product and clones it. A person bring a forest on your back yard. What you'll get is called a 'forest garden'. Inside a forest, you will observe that there are certain plant groupings that are developed near one another time and time again. These different vegetation mutually benefit one other. A fancy time period for this phenomenon is 'a guild'. There are several guilds that you can view in nature: pine guild, white oak guild, hazelnut guild, etc.


bncfmnc


#home

Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life. ~From Finally Home~


Elizabeth Parker


#dog-humor #dog-lovers #finally-home #golden-retrievers #humor






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