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Henry Whittaker
“At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning
To show a longing for anything that one cannot have, for instance, is not a clever position.
Your worth as a hostess consists in displaying the talents of your guests, not crowing about your own.”
Alma Whittaker
one finds an interesting place and begins looking, and then the secrets reveal themselves, one after the other, until one cannot pull away.
I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.”
signature of all things”—namely, that God had hidden clues for humanity’s betterment inside the design of every flower, leaf, fruit, and tree on earth. All the natural world was a divine code, Boehme claimed, containing proof of our Creator’s love.
She saw lines of convergence and grace everywhere she looked.
