LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and read more

LightWinged Smoke
Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird,
Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn,
Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
By night star-veiling, and by day
Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
Go thou my incense upward from this hearth,
And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.
-Henry David Thoreau-.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be read more

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that read more

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Teach me to live that I may dread
The grace as little as my bed.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first read more

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure

By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.