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More Goodthoughts Quotes

  • Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.-- Marcel Proust
  • Good works are links that form a chain of love.-- Mother Teresa
  • It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau
  • “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” -Mother Theresa
  • If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.--Chinese proverb
  • If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul."--Rabbi Harold Kushner
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Where there is great love, there are always miracles. --Willa Cather
  • The best way to have good ideas is to have lots of ideas. --Linus Pauling
  • Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagine. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
  • It's never too late to be what you might have been. --George Ernst
  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein
  • Nothing unless first a dream.--Carl Sandburg

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  • "When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world." -- Harold Kushner

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Biography

Hi! I’m an artist who loves to watch paint slide off a brush! I've felt that way ever since I was three years old and helped paint the old wire fence in our backyard. When I saw that open gallon of silver metallic paint, I thought it was the most beautiful stuff I'd ever seen. Watching that silver paint roll off my big brush and drip down the fence onto the grass was pure joy!


I’m still happy painting fences, but most of my painting today is done on canvas. My paintings are sort of "Goodthoughts" cheerleaders encouraging all of us to hang on to our dreams. Some are colorful stories about the journey that we are all on...they're about hope and believing that good things can happen. They are reminders that God's on the journey with us, leaving little love notes pointing the way. Others are about the beauty that I see right here around me. I hope they will all make you smile.


Then there are my paintings done from dirt. Yes, I'm a gardener! It brings out the child in me! What other hobby let’s you dig in the dirt, play with the water hose, and see something brand new and amazing every day? And flowers are proof that the more you give away, the more you have.


As much as I love painting and gardening, my favorite love is Chuck. He's my husband, sweetie, and best friend. Chuck is a pastor, writer, and fellow dreamer on our journey together. We live in an old Victorian farmhouse in Chatham, Virginia. On a warm, late afternoon you might find us rocking on the front porch, drinking homemade strawberry smoothies, laughing and talking about our day. We enjoy browsing antique shops, day trips on Fridays, and spending time with our two daughters and their families, which include three exceptional grandchildren.


I hope you'll stop by often and join in the conversation. You might have a few Goodthoughts of your own you'd like to share.

Debbie

Interests

spending time with family and friends., artful living, reading, painting, antiques, labyrinths, living simply, flower and veggie gardening, day trips with my husband