Thought

I love this thought: 
It's a broken world, but I can pick up the pieces and form a pattern with them.

Little Details

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."

John Wooden

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnwooden384652.html

Patchwork

"We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork: now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/patchwork

Clouds and Rainbow

I only recently discovered this poet, and I like his lines very much!

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,

From the seas and the streams;

I bear light shade for the leaves when laid

In their noonday dreams.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Cloud"

http://www.quotegarden.com/sky-clouds.html

Crossroads

"Quilts are not just comfy ways to keep warm in the winter. They can also be like the pages of books, surfaces for telling stories, or notes sending coded messages....

One common motif in African American quilting was the cross, which had obvious religious connotations, but also pointed to the idea of a crossroads.

'For African Americans in the 19th Century, the crossroads is going to play a huge role,'... Slaves found themselves having to choose whether to stay where they were, or leave everything they knew and escape to freedom, she said." 

http://www.hopewellnews.com/article_3099.shtml

Light & Night

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,

And the young winds fed it with silver dew,

And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light,

and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "The Sensitive Plant," 1820

http://www.quotegarden.com/light.html

Garden

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 

Oscar Wilde
 

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/o/oscar_wilde_5.html

Buch - Libro - Book- Mark

Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. 

~ Jose Saramago

quotation from: http://www.finestquotes.com/select_quote-category-Language-page-1.htm

Bookmarks Can Bring a Smile

I like this quote here very much:

"Sometimes a bookmark can bring a smile, sometimes cause a pause for thought but it nearly always sparks off a memory and apart from a postcard or a photograph there are not many things that have the power to do that."

Simon Quicke | The Love of Bookmarks | Inside Books | insidebooks.blogspot.com

insidebooks.blogspot.com is an amazing blog!!!

(quote found on http://www.miragebookmark.ch/wb_bookmark_quotes.htm)

Bookmarked

One of my favourite books at the moment is "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen.

I also love the movie. Especially the two sentences spoken by the old man in the end:

"I'm not running away. I'm going home."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6MciMX39u4&feature=related

And I love Rosie, the elephant. Here is such a lovely elephant-picture from the book "Life and Love, A BOOK OF EMBRACES", 1995, the picture is by John Drysdale, it is called "Pachyderm Pal", and was taken 1986.

Lavender Bookmarks

At home I keep my quilted bookmarks in a lavender-scented bag. That means I have a linen bag for my collection of bookmarks. This bag contains another small linen bag which is filled with Lavender blossoms and leaves. I also put a small piece of cotton into my bookmarks-bag, on this scrap I have given a few drops of Provencal lavender oil.

That way, when I open one of my beautiful books, for example here the novel by Henry James "The Portrait of a Lady" (with the illustrations by John Singer Sargent, oh, how lovely is that book!), I not only perceive the nice, somewhat woodenly odor of the book but also a slight lavender fragrance coming from my bookmark, to accompany me while reading....

I absolutely love that! :-)

And: when I have finished a book I give the bookmark back into my bag to refresh the fragrance. Since I have a collection of quilted bookmarks I just take another one for my next book, fresh from my scented bag. 

I am not a rich person, but these things give me the feeling of abundance and luxury!!!

Bookmark

And you read your Emily Dickinson,

 And I, my Robert Frost,

  And we note our place with bookmarkers

   That measure what we've lost.

Simon and Garfunkel | The Dangling Conversation | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme | 1966

 http://www.miragebookmark.ch/wb_bookmark_quotes.htm

Independence Day

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence."
Abraham Lincoln




I came back from the US yesterday and miss the Independence Day celebrations now, but I found this beautiful quilt on the internet:

blog.fabshophop.com/blog/?p=1309