Comments on: Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:22:25 +0000

It can be like that in some places but so far where I live there is still a lot of courtesy.

By: lisl

lisl — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 05:05:26 +0000

I often find surprise at courtesy these days, Cherie

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:10:32 +0000

Yes a lemon is a fruit. I could have used apples but the lemon photograph was better.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:08:27 +0000

In the deep recesses of my mind I do vaguely recall the song

Interesting things to think about JD I particularly like the ‘Universe is a reflector’. It reminds me of ‘we should always look for the best in people’.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:03:15 +0000

It is a thoughtful quote.

By: CherryPie

CherryPie — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:33:54 +0000

Yes

By: james higham

james higham — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 18:12:25 +0000

Does the lemon have a special significance for the quote, Cherie?

By: JD

JD — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:15:22 +0000

I remember that, but then I am very ancient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PajeIYWdze0

Cherie – I was reading something similar to those words recently, from John Michell writing in The Oldie – “Yet even in times of chaos the ideals of goodness and righteous behaviour are still apparent in human nature, and if you take up the paradisial world-view you see them predominating. It is only because of this that civil life is possible, and still goes on.”

And John Michell again in The Oldie- “The universe is like a reflector, so your experience of life depends largely on how you choose to see it…… you will begin to see….that happiness is the normal human condition, and that heaven on earth is not merely a religious delusion but signifies the natural order of the mind and the world around it.”

By: Bernard

Bernard — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:42:53 +0000

Lovely picture Cherrie, and a very interesting thought for the week.
As soon as I saw that Lemon Tree, a song from 1950 came to mind -
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When I was just a lad of ten, my father said to me,
“Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.”
“Don’t put your faith in love, my boy”, my father said to me,
“I fear you’ll find that love is like the lovely lemon tree.”

Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
Lemon tree very pretty and the lemon flower is sweet
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.

One day beneath the lemon tree, my love and I did lie
A girl so sweet that when she smiled the stars rose in the sky.
We passed that summer lost in love beneath the lemon tree
The music of her laughter hid my father’s words from me:

Way before your time – but, do you recognise it?
Cheers Peter, Paul & Mary,

By: Steve Hayes

Steve Hayes — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:09:23 +0000

Very true, like much else St Basil said.