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At the End of Broken Dreams, an Open Door

Anita Mathias — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 11:05:20 +0000

About 20 years ago, in Williamsburg, Virginia, we used to sing this in church, “At the end of broken dreams, an open door.” I sung it because I liked the lyricism, but I had no interest in the open door at the end of broken dreams because then the dreams would have to be broken, […]

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“What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it now! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it” Goethe

Anita Mathias — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:40:00 +0000

W. H. Murray in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition, 1951. ‘But when I said that nothing had been done, I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money–booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in […]

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In Praise of Manual Work

Anita Mathias — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:27:00 +0000

Roy and I are, and always have been, people who’ve earned our living, such as it is, at our computers. None the less, whenever I embark on manual work, okay, not heavy duty manual work– just painting, cleaning, re-organizing, gardening–I am charmed by it. By how manual work literally helps one work off one’s bad […]

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