Lynna’s Profile

“Much have I lost, but much have I had -
Maybe it's best things went as they did -
and so I give you thanks then God.”
― O.E. Rolvaag, Boat of Longing

“Nature is the direct expression of the divine imagination.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

“The road climbs curving out of wet ground thick with cedars, and up onto a plateau meadow where Jersey cows, beautiful as deer, watching them with Juno eyes. Along the trail the ferns are dense, drooping with wet, twenty kinds of them. Again he does not know them (in my experience, ferns are an exclusively feminine expertise), and she tells him: hayscented fern, wood fern, sensitive fern, cinnamon fern, ostrich fern, interrupted fern, Christmas fern, bracken, maidenhair - names that are as pleasant to his ear as the woods smells are to his nose. In the intervals between clumps of spruce, the moss spreads a green carpet, inches thick, feather-soft, with candles of ground pine and the domes of spotted orange mushrooms rising out of it...
Those aren't toadstools, Those are mushrooms. Deadly Amanita mushrooms. Ne mangez pas.
You know everything that grows here. That's wonderful." Not so wonderful. I grew up here. I grew up in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, too, but I couldn't tell you the name of one thing that grows there. One, maybe Lilacs.
You didn't grow up with my mother.”
― Wallace Stegner

“It's strange how teachers can go off to college for all those years to learn to become teachers, but some of them never learn the easy stuff. Like making kids laugh. And making sure they know that you love them.”
― Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend