Prints from Etsy Shop-Trafalgarssquare

I fell in love with the prints shown below when I ran across them in the Etsy Shop of Kit Chase. After further reading, I came across her announcement:

"Celebrating my THREE book contract with Putnam Books (an imprint of Penguin Books)!
So...buy any 2 prints of any size, get 1 print of your choice for free. Just leave me a link to the print you would like in "message to seller" at checkout. Plus, all prints ship worldwide for a flat rate of $1.50.
It's a party, find out why:
http://lullaloo.blogspot.com/2010/10/yippeee.html

Hope you enjoy your stay!

I just had to share her artwork on my blog after corresponding with her and getting permission to post them.  There are several more prints available for a minimal fee....Check them out!   Click on the title of this post for the link to her Etsy Shop!!  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!!

PS I just love Etsy!!

Above is another image compliments of Kit at the Etsy Shop Trafalgarssquare.   The link is:  http://www.etsy.com/shop/trafalgarssquare  Check out her fantastic artwork!!

The quotes below came from favorite books of the Queens and were shared on their web-site called Book-Club-Queen.  It is a great web-site!!  The 'Queens' are a mother and daughter team which developed and maintain this website.  I think you will be pleasantly surprised!  Here is an explanation of their site:

"You're an avid reader, a true book lover, and you've been fortunate enough to find a few others just like you. Perhaps you're an avid reader, no book off limits in your library, and you want to find like-minded people who also share your passion. The question is - how do you take your love for reading to the next level? We can help!"

Quotes about Books and Reading

You never know when a conversation may be the last one you will ever have. Elner Shimfissle, Cant wait to get to Heaven

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Every transition begins with an ending. We have to let go of the old before we start the new. Don Piper, Heaven is Real

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If you have tried to help someone for years and they are still not "helped," you might want to consider whether or not they really want help. Joyce Meyer, 100 ways to Simplify your Life

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...It's our history, some of it's painful, some of it's beautiful, but it's who we are! Malcolm Cooper, The Wednesday Letters

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It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas. Terri Irwin, Steve and Me

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A dog can be counted on in a way that's true of little else. Anna Quindlen, Good Dog. Stay.

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.. I'm a searcher for truth, regardless of how bizarre it may sound to others whose imaginations and truths are only different...not right or wrong. Shirley MacLaine, Sage-Ing While Age-Ing

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When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things, Franny said. What about the dead? I asked. Where do we go? Susie Salmon, The Lovely Bones

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Then you are a fool, she said shortly. And a fool to remark it. Watch and learn, Mary. There is no room for mistakes at court. Lady Boleyn, The Other Boleyn Girl

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There are Gods in Alabama, I know because I killed one. Arlene Fleet, Gods in Alabama

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Why had no one told me that my body would become a battlefield, a sacrifice, a test? Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? Dinah, The Red Tent

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"I say, let your affairs be as two or three,

and not a hundred or a thousand, instead of a

million count half a dozen, and keep your

accounts on your thumbnail."

-Henry David Thoreau

 

 ***We have too much, do too much, keep too much,  love too much, buy too much. 

Let us give ourselves the gift of simplicity.***

What can you eliminate from your life.

 

Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.

Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors.

If it may not, give us the strength to encounter

that which is to come,

that we be brave in peril,

constant in tribulation,

temperate in wrath,

and in all changes of fortune

and down to the gates of death,

loyal and loving one to another.

 -Robert Louis Stevenson

AUTUMN

"I am rich today with autumn's gold,

All that my covetous hands can hold;

Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod,

A goldfinch on a milkweed pod,

Huge golden pumpkins in the field

With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield,

Golden apples heavy on the trees

Rivaling those of Hesperides,

Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread

Over all like butter on warm bread;

And the harvest moon will this night unfold

The streams running full of molten gold.

Oh, who could find a dearth of bliss

With autumn glory such as this!"

- Gladys Harp

Waking

Get up from your bed,
go out from your house,
follow the path you know so well,
so well that you now see nothing
and hear nothing
unless something can cry loudly to you,
and for you it seems
even then
no cry is louder than yours
and in your own darkness
cries have gone unheard
as long as you can remember.

These are hard paths we tread
but they are green
and lined with leaf mould
and we must love their contours
as we love the body branching
with its veins and tunnels of dark earth.

I know that sometimes
your body is hard like a stone
on a path that storms break over,
embedded deeply
into those sounds seem to descend
as if kneeling down into you
and you listen strangely caught
as the terrible voice moving closer that
halts,
and in the silence
now arriving
whispers

Get up, I depend
on you utterly.
Everything you need
you had
the moment before
you were born.

~ David Whyte ~

(Where Many Rivers Meet)

Flare

12.

When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider
the orderliness of the world. Notice
something you have never noticed before,

like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricket
whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb.

Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain,
shaking the water-sparks from its wings.

Let grief be your sister, she will whether or no.
Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also,
like the diligent leaves.

A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world
and the responsibilities of your life.

Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.

In the glare of your mind, be modest.
And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling.

~ Mary Oliver ~

(The Leaf and the Cloud: A Poem)

My Heart Is So Small

My heart is so small

it's almost invisible.

How can You place 

such big sorrows in it?

"Look," He answered,

"your eyes are even smaller,

yet they behold the world."

~ Rumi ~

Invocation

Let us try what it is to be true to gravity,
to grace, to the given, faithful to our own voices,

to lines making the map of our furrowed tongue.
Turned toward the root of a single word, refusing

solemnity and slogans, let us honor what hides
and does not come easy to speech. The pebbles

we hold in our mouths help us to practice song,
and we sing to the sea. May the things of this world

be preserved to us, their beautiful secret
vocabularies. We are dreaming it over and new,

the language of our tribe, music we hear
we can only acknowledge. May the naming powers

be granted. Our words are feathers that fly
on our breath. Let them go in a holy direction.

~ Jeanne Lohmann ~