I love quaint shops that post signs: "out to lunch" or "gone fishing" when the owners take a much needed break. I respect that.
Instead of photos today..I read this quote on my Flipboard awhile ago. It is long, but keep at it and you will be glad you did. Powerful stuff to ponder over the weekend.
"Solitude of Self"
By Elizabeth Stanton - during a speech to committees of both houses of Congress in 1892
"The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul...the right of individual conscience and judgement... We come into the world alone unlike all who have gone before us; we leave it alone under circumstances peculiar to ourselves. No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life... Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another... In that solemn solitude of self, that links us with the immeasurable and the eternal, each soul lives forever... One inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced... Such is individual life. Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul?"
Tricia
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