Dozen Senses: senses: basic five + li'l pain/recovery

"A House Without Books is like a Room Without Windows" - Mann

"While we try to teach our children about life, our children teach us what life is all about. " Schwindt

"In the beginning the word was with God: all explanation, physical and moral, rested on the divine. And now for storytellers, even though those patterns of explanation are strictly human, the word has not lost a superhuman power to connect young and old, writer and reader; to connect us with each other and with the causes and consequences of what we do." Jill Paton Walsh

"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive. " James Baldwin

"DIFFERENCES CHALLENGE ASSUMPTIONS." Anne Wilson Schaef

"Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate."

"I believe in the sun when it is not shining. And I believe in love even when no one's there. And I believe in God even when he is silent." -found scratched into a basement or cellar wall in Cologne, Germany during the Holocaust in World War II. -suspected to have been scrawled in 1943 by a child hiding from Nazi concentration camps.

Write your sorrows in sand. Write your blesssings in stone. -unknown-

"My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds". Anne Morrow Lindenburg

"Music speaks louder than words. It's the only thing that the whole world listens to. Sometimes the love that you feel inside gets lost between your heart and your mind. And the words don't really say the things you wanted them to. But then you feel in someone's song what you'd been trying to say all along. And somehow with the magic of music the message comes through. The longer I live the more I find that people seldom take the time to really get to know a stranger and make him a friend. But the power of a simple song can make everybody feel they belong. Maybe singin' and playin' can bring us together again."
-lyrics by Payne, Pease & Scarpiello
-originally sung by Peter, Paul & Mary