Today is Epiphany, the official end to the Christmas season. Have you taken your Christmas decorations down? Ours are scheduled to go back into hiding today. When I was a child, I was so sad about Christmas being over that I made a chain of 365 paper rings to count down until the next Christmas. What an astonishing display of industry! By mid-summer I was sick of it and threw it away.
Here are a few words from my Commonplace book to enrich your day. You’re welcome.
Every day, we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you haven’t gotten started on that today yet, get going!
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill
I go into “babble mode” sometimes when there’s too much silence in a conversation. Words slip out and there are regrets.
Discipline is choosing between what you want now,
and what you want most.
Abraham Lincoln
Words to encourage you when it’s 20 degrees out and you’d rather stay home than go swim laps. Oh, I guess that’s just me.
It’s a sin to be boring.
Elisabeth Elliot
The trouble is, when we’re being boring, we don’t always KNOW we’re being boring. See above about “babble mode.” But point taken, Elisabeth. I suspect that if you do what Wolfgang said above, you will never be boring.
Let’s pretend that’s an exquisite picture and you can cross that off Wolfgang’s list. And just to show you how much I care about you, I’ll end this with a “good” poem. Now all you have to do is hear a little song and say a few sensible words. You’re on your own for that.
I’ve often repeated
This might be deleted.
You should believe me
I wouldn’t deceive thee.
Lynniebeemuseoday 
Here are a few “sensible words” that came to mind
after reading your quote from Winston Churchill.
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
In that space, there is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
Thank you for sharing from your commonplace book! You have enriched my day!
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The Frankl quote is a perfect complement to the Churchill one – thank you for sharing it!
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Haha….i like! The poem at the end is perfect. Christmas is still up, here. We still have two more “Christmas” family gatherings planned. This is the quote I’m hanging on to today: “the way to shorten winter is to make Christmas last longer”. As a child of God Christmas should always be in our heart anyway. 😊
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Amen to that, Barbie! ❤️
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