Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:  family

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.
~Elizabeth Berg

Family is just accident…. They don’t mean to get on your nerves. They don’t even mean to be your family, they just are.
~Marsha Norman

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.
~Kendall Hailey

EndQuote:
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
~Desmond Tutu

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Exercise Prompt for 08/02:  mask

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Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst.
~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
~Ugo Betti

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~George Bernard Shaw

The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us to become our best while looking our worst.
~Marge Kennedy

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Posted from the Grove

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
~Mary Karr

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.
~Mitch Albom

All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
~Leo Tolstoy

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~NY Times:  The Ambivalent Marriage Takes a Toll on Health
https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/the-ambivalent-marriage-takes-a-toll-on-health/?action

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~Family Focus Blog:  10 Benefits of Family Time
https://familyfocusblog.com/6-benefits-of-spending-time-together-as-a-family

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~Operation Meditation:  5 Life-changing Benefits of Solitude
https://operationmeditation.com/discover/5-life-changing-benefits-of-solitude/#:~:text

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Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind each other that we’re related for better or for worse and try to keep the maiming and killing to a minimum.
~Rick Riordan

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VIDEO:

Families are like branches on a tree. We grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.
~unknown

Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

To tell the story of one family is to tell what is essential in the story of all…. All families are equally ancient.
~Moncure D Conway

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~Helen Takkin:  Descent   (3:35)   because, family
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/438379368

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~Universal Everything:  Transfiguration   (6:24)   family  ̶  personalities on parade
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/429924982

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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.
~F Scott Fitzgerald

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
~Arundhati Roy

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
~Mignon McLaughlin

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
~Margaret Laurence

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MUSIC:

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.
~Herbert Prochnov

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.
~Nancy Mitford

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
~Robert Brault

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
~George Burns

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~Various Artists:  We Are Family   (4:13)

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~Various Artists:  We Are The World 25 For Haiti    (8:32 – music @1:05)

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~Spanish Artists:  Somos El Mundo  (We Are The World – 6:45)   in Spanish

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~Playing For Change: What’s Going On  ̶  Feat. Sara Bareilles   (3:39)

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Treat your family like friends and your friends like family.
~unknown

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.
~Benjamin Franklin

It’s nice to have friends, but it’s better when your friends are family.
~various unknowns

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A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.
~Robert Brault

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
~Evan Esar

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that “Members not Present” and “Subjects Discussed” were one and the same.
~Robert Brault

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
~Robert Brault

I don’t have to look up my family tree, because I know that I’m the sap.
~Fred Allen

Being part of a family means smiling for photos.
~Harry Morgan

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Bryce Canyon – Family of Spires
© 2020 Hans Stroo

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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
~Charles R Swindoll

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.
~Polish Proverb

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

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@Writers Platform

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
~Michael Levinve

Having a child makes you a parent; having two, you are a referee.
~David Frost

The advantage of having only one child is that you always know who did it.
~Erma Bombeck

In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
~Robert Brault

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Exercise Prompt:  family

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Family life is a bit like a runny peach pie  ̶  not perfect but who’s complaining?
~Robert Brault

Families are like fudge  ̶  mostly sweet with a few nuts.
~Author unknown

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable  ̶  each segment distinct.
~Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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~BarTalk

family of US

anarchists & fascists
Reps & Dems
male & female
scientists & religionists
young & old
the timid & bold
slavers & abolitionists
peaceniks & adventurists
twixt the Atlantic & Pacific
mindful north & fertile south
pale skins & exotics
creatives & destroyers
hard luck & the heart-felt
sports & the arts
the Haves & the not-so-much
we comprise the family of US

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Family Outing

Annual picnic in the park
Bottled wine, beer concealed
Fears confirmed, hidden sparks
Forbidden love and lust revealed

Cousin Ned and best friend Ted
Beat us all at volleyball
Proposed a toast, they plan to wed
Sometime soon this coming fall

Aunt Irene who tends to lean
A bit too far left of center
Announced that she and sweet Lily
Are newlyweds, now co-renters

Brother Bob met Brother Todd
Studied hard at seminary
Broke the rules all thru school
Banns are planned, getting married

Sedition, seduction, love’s transmission
I smile to see their love’s completion
While I, still captive to love’s tradition
Forge on alone, out of commission

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5-7-5-7-7 x 4

slug bugs, back seat farts
I spy with my little eye
car sick, sloping curves
country roads long Sunday drives
memories of family

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odyssey

left home for the world
right when honor headed south
not worth scouting north
branching roads too much to see
need-to-roam’s cost, family

long spare voyage out
turned to passage looking in
find love’s not the route
not family or safety
but the grave’s finality

death rides a white horse
in the night I hear hoofbeats
muffled, drawing near
journey circles back around
To family after all

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5-7-5 x 2

siblings as saplings
family roots branching out
begun in tandem
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abandoned orphan
cast-off, slave, used, raped, kept down
hist’ry, my fam’ly

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Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
~Andre Maurois

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
~Jane Howard

Having a place to go  ̶  is a home. Having someone to love  ̶  is a family. Having both  ̶  is a blessing.
~Donna Hedges

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When you educate a man you educate an individual. When you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
~Robert M Maciver

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~Theodore Hesburgh

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.
~Mother Teresa

Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another.
~Louisa May Alcott

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