Mama E: Poetry Night

RJ had a reading at school for his class' Poetry Night.

The performance pictures are fuzzy and dark so you can see him practicing;)

Quotes

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
~James Fenton

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.
~ Erich Fromm

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
~ Albert Camus

Sometimes, it takes very little to make things right.
~movie "Greenfingers"

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
~Oprah Winfrey

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
~Erma Bombeck

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking.
~ J. C. Watts

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~Hal Borland

My sister is the one who will be with me my whole life...she was there when I was little when I did not know my husband; she will be there when I am old and my parents are gone. She is the one with whom I will have the longest and most lasting relationship. I treasure it more then she could ever know.
~me

So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.
~Matthew 6:34

Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear — and doubt.
~H.A. Dorfman

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.
~John Greenleaf Whittier

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
~Lord Baden-Powell

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
~John Lennon

Every house where love abides
And friendship is a guest,
Is surely home, and home sweet home
For there the heart can rest.
~Henry Van Dyke

God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
~Jewish Proverb

Mama E

Friday, February 27, 2009

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