Your Daily Reprieve

                Your Daily Reprieve for Wednesday September 25, 2024   From Waynesville, NC       “Ever so slowly, I could feel myself changing. Things that had seemed important were no longer important. There was inside me a warming, a softening, a stirring, as the petals of a rosebud stir almost imperceptibly into a blossom.” ~ Neoga, Illinois, February 1974   The pangs of pain, of failure, in this mortal lot, are the birth-throes of transition to better things. -John E. Boodin     Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -H.G. Wells   There are no true beginnings but in pain.  When you understand that and can withstand pain, then you're almost ready to start. -Leslie Woolf Hedley         Big Book Quote     We hope you are convinced...

                Your Daily Reprieve for Tuesday September 24, 2024   From Waynesville, NC     I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke   “Alcoholics Anonymous has given me something of real value that I can share with others.” ~ Tucson, Arizona, May 2004   A setback is a setup for a comeback.  Willie Jolley   No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale.   The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it.   It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we m...