a little birdie told me so: May 2023

Sunday, May 21, 2023

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Love this quote...."There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -Albert Einstein

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steviewren: Wanna be artist free spirited creative type trapped in a work day world of left brained people while trying hard to find time to make pretty things.

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the colors, the people and the stuff that brighten my world

beautifully constructed sentences
embroidery floss
watching the moon rise
dangly earrings
the first bite of Lemon Icebox pie
Icy cold Cokes
fresh paint on a canvas
old maps
the color of Granny Smith apples
camping
outdoor concerts
crunching ice
quilts
walking barefoot
old postcards
scrapbook paper
laughing babies
ripples on water
lightening bugs
Chinese lanterns

...."We were Birds Without Wings. You were a robin and I was a blackbird. And there were some who were eagles or vultures or pretty gold finches, but none of us had wings. For birds with wings nothing changes. They fly where they will and they know nothing about borders and their quarrels are very small. But we are always confined to earth, no matter how much we climb to the high places and flap our arms. Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us. Because we have no wings we are pushed into struggles and abominations that we did not seek and then after all that, the years go by. The mountains are leveled. The valleys rise. The rivers are blocked by sand and the cliffs fall into the sea." -Louis De Berniere

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!

Edward Lear

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings!" Victor Hugo

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Who Said It First?

The phrase "little birdie told me so" may find it's origins in this Bible verse. "Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say" (Ecclesiastes 10:20). The earliest form of the saying was included in John Heywood's collection of proverbs (1546). In 1583, Brian Melbancke wrote in 'Philotimus'" 'I had a little bird, that brought me newes of it.' In 1711, in 'Letter to Stella,' Jonathan Swift came close to the current version: 'I heard a little bird say so.'

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