March

“The beginning is always today.”
~ Mary Shelley (b. 30 August 1797 – d. 1 February 1851)

February

“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did.

So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbour. Cast the wind in your sail.

Explore. Dream. Discover.”

~Mark Twain (b. November 30, 1835 – d. April 21, 1910)

“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” ~from “Robin Hood and Maid Marion”

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (b. 6 August 1809 – d. 6 October 1892)

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”

Stella Gibbons, (b. 5 January 1902 – d. 19 December 1989) Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

“Without a function, we cease to be.
So, I will write till I die.”

~ Farley Mowat (b. May 12, 1921 – d. May 6, 2014)

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”

~ John Burroughs (b. April 3, 1837 – d. March 29, 1921)

Lest we forget!