Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in The Grove:  gift

A candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise or stir at all,
But softly gives itself away,
While, quite unselfish, it grows small…
~Anonymous

Love is what’s in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
~Anonymous child

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men!
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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After the children, stuffed and sleepy, finally went to bed, Gertrude and Arnold sat together in the love seat and watched the tree lights blink.
~Ethel Pochocki

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Exercise Prompt for 12/27:  With a desire to leave this execrable year behind because of it, to tease fate and to ward off its influence by naming it, in remembrance and in honor of those lost to it, the last prompt for 2020 is: death

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With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.
~Catherine Doherty

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.
~Richard Moss

The greatest gift in life is to be remembered.
~Ken Venturi

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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
~Buddha

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Posted from the Grove:  looking forward

What is more beautiful than a Christmas reunion at home where the hand of death has been merciful and the little flock, scattered for years, gathers again under the old roof — mother, father and all the children?
~Kin Hubbard

At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~Marjorie Holmes

I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.
~Mike Ness

A good wife is heaven’s last, best gift to man, his gem of many virtues, his casket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guardian of his innocence, her arms the pale of his safety.
~Jeremy Taylor

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in a living room where eight or ten people have just opened their Christmas presents. It should not be cleaned up too quickly.
~Andy Rooney

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I’m dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow…
~Irving Berlin

The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
~Charles Barnard

Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.
~Edith Schaeffer

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~Benedict Cumberbatch:  Masterclass — How to React to Bad Xmas Gifts   (6:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vp3tDKfu5Q&t=1s

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Christmas is a guest that always comes a month before arriving.
~Evan Esar

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.
~E B White

I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.
~Julia Mood Peterkin

Isn’t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for — for — I don’t know what for, exactly, but it’s something you don’t mind so much not having at other times.
~Kate Langley Bosher

I wish we could preserve and put up this sacred Christmas spirit in one-pound tin boxes, like holiday fruitcake, and open a box of it every profane month all year long.
~Harlan Miller

No, I do like Christmas on the whole… In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But oh, it is clumsier every year.
~E M Forster

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VIDEO:

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best gift you can ever give your mentor is to grow. They feed off your growth… Raising up others to a higher level is a mentor’s joy and sustenance.
~John C Maxwell

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
~Disraeli

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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
~Eugene Ionesco

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
~Thomas Carlyle

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
~Arthur Conan Doyle

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
~Albert Einstein

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~Vimeo:  Found Me   (9:00) stumbled on, the gift of self
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/491339383

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~BLR_VFX:  The Gift   (4:39)   Russian, forget the politics
https://vimeo.com/33025640

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~Eaza Shukla:  Regifted   (2:15)   undiscovered gift, orphan object
https://vimeo.com/272008356

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The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
~Oren Arnold

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
~George MacDonald

Friendship, at least those that I’ve known, is about giving.
~James Frey

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
~Hubert H Humphrey

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“It came without ribbons! It came without tags!
It came without packages, boxes or bags!”…
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!
“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”
~Dr. Seuss

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!…
~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
~Sarah Dessen

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MUSIC:

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.
~Debra Messing

For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
~Wernher von Braun

My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
~Gary Shteyngart

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
~Judy Blume

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time
~Kevin Heath

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~One Republic:  Let’s Hurt Tonight   (3:28)   olympic love note
https://vimeo.com/248618711

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Love is a gift worth giving, sometimes you just give more than you receive.
~Anonymous

Do not impress others at the expense of your progress.
~Gift Gugu Mona

Losing will not always amount to a loss, sometimes you have to lose those toxic relationships and bad habits to create a space for better things.
~Gift Gugu Mona

The giving of love is an education in itself.
~Eleanor Roosevelt

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No one has ever become poor by giving.
~Anne Frank

If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
~Arabic Proverb

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
~Mother Teresa

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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
~Bill Watterson

When it comes to giving… some people stop at nothing.
~Evan Esar

Lucy: Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown! At this time of year I think we should put aside all our differences, and try to be kind.
Charlie Brown: Why does it have to be for just this time of year? Why can’t it be all year ’round?
Lucy: What are you, some kind of fanatic or something?
~Charles M Schulz

Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~Kin Hubbard

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Three phrases that best sum up the Christmas season are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
~Author unknown

I know some parents who were very smart. They bought their kids some batteries for Christmas and put a sign on them that said: “Toys Not Included.”
~Gene Perret/Terry Perret Martin

Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
~Author unknown

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
~P J O’Rourke

The lord giveth and the lord taketh, so I give it so he won’t have to take it.
~Joseph Julius Bonkowski

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
~Catherine Hall

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
~Johnny Carson

The first Christmas was a myrrhy Christmas.
~Evan Esar

It is better to give than to receive a Christmas gift because you don’t have the bother of exchanging it.
~Evan Esar

It’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day aka “It’s OK to Accomplish Absolutely Nothing” week! Yay!
~Aaron Caycedo-Kimura,

Depending on how good you are at watching and analyzing the weather, taking down the Christmas lights is something that can be postponed until the end of July.
~Robert Kirby

A merry Christmas to all my friends except two.
~W C Fields

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Twisted Tree 2020
© David Lorenz Winston

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
~Winston Churchill

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
~Pablo Picasso

Your gift is not what you do but what you are.
~Sunday Adelaja

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.
~Steve Prefontaine

Hide not your talents.
They for use were made.
What’s a sundial in the shade?
~Benjamin Franklin

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If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
~Joy Harjo

One of the most wicked destructive forces, psychologically speaking, is unused creative power … If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or for some other reason, doesn’t use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison. That’s why we often diagnose neuroses and psychotic diseases as not-lived higher possibilities.
~Marie-Louise von Franz

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.
~Itzhak Perlman

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young… he killed himself in the prime of his life.
~Gustav Mahler

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
~Andre Gide

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
~Pliny the Elder

Being gifted needs courage.
~Georg Brandes

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@Writers Platform

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar is bound to succeed.
~Henry Ford

Give them quality. That’s the best kind of advertising.
~Milton Hershey

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~Garrison Keillor

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Give naught, get same. Give much get same.
~Malcolm Forbes

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.
~Sir John Templeton

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.
~Orison Swett Marden

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The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
~Marge Piercy

Hugs are great gifts… The only wrapping is arms!
~Bil Keane

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Glass Table:

God holds the copyright, as the sole author of life.
~Gift Gugu Mona

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell

The gift without the giver is rare.
~James Russell Lowell

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~Thornton Wilder

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Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you experience. Worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.
~Fernan Vargas

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.
~Euripides

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.
~Gloria Gaither

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~mademoisellefifi:  Take Him Out

When he heard a loud noise coming from the room next to his, the Godfather rushed in and said…”Hey what you doin?….You make trouble everytime you come here…If you keep that up, i’m gonna send people after you…and you’ll be silenced. You gotta pay your dues and remember: family is always first. You’re not in the streets here, you got to respect this house. The family has worked for years to make this a respectable place, and you think you can change that in a few minutes? Well enough is enough. You gotta be a man and take it like a man. Your time has come. We don’t take too well to “attitude” here, and what we say goes. Luigi…come over here and take him out”.

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God holds the copyright, as the sole author of life.
~Gift Gugu Mona

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
~Eleanor Powell

The gift without the giver is rare.
~James Russell Lowell

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~Thornton Wilder

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Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you experience. Worst days give lessons, and the best days give memories.
~Fernan Vargas

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods’ best gift.
~Euripides

My love can’t be purchased. Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
~Nina Dobrev

Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.
~Gloria Gaither

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Exercise Prompt:  gift

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The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.
~Joel Osteen

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.
~Ray Bradbury

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain
~Joyce Cary

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The Exercise:

~BarTalk:

question #20

which the gift and the wrapping
same question as chicken or egg
was it music or the lyrics
that made magic off the charts

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Progress

They say love’s the gift, family and more
They say peace and I say it’s war
Ignorance, illness, political difference
Wars it was that fueled our science

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5-7-5-7-7

presently, a life
unearned, granted gift of breath
heartbeats marking time
celebrate with abandon
yet debt’s unpaid, call it death

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5-7-5 x 3

bright tinsel trappings
sterling gift, a second chance
golden moment lost
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puzzle’s myst’ry piece
hist’ry’s missing destined share
the gift of a Child
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heartbeats marking time
blue unwelcome gifts of breath
unsolicited favors

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
~William A Ward

The paradox of gifts: I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.
~Dr SunWolf

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Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.
~Buddha

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
~Seneca

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
~Author Unknown

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

At its best, giving is an act of worship.
~Cornelius J Dyck

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