Daughter of the King

Mec

We haven’t looked into Mec’s life recently, and I think it would be appropriate to do so now. Mec if you recall is a young girl of sixteen with quite the personality. She is kind enough when she wants to be, but on the occasion that she doesn’t want to be, she’s wretched. Mec has made some decisions of late about her life style that will change many little routines in her life. She has rearranged her bedroom for the seventh and hopefully last time on Saturday. Actually it is rather exciting because Mec has lived with a bunk-bed for the last eight years at least, and the other day her baby sister took charge of the top bed and had it moved into the nursery bedroom. It all delights Mec very much, the whole idea of being free just hang out on her bed without getting her hair caught on the wires and springs so close above. The whole situation is terrific in all accounts.

I don’t know how well you know Mec, but there aren’t many things that go on in her head that she doesn’t act upon when she is convicted it is right. She is rather moody, especially when she is not feeling her best, and that has been the case for the last couple weeks. She has told you that I think, and if I am correct many of you were very sympathetic.

Anyways, the girl has many faults and I think we should not discuss them, because no good can come of that. It wouldn’t be pleasing either to speak of her goodness either because it might get to her head. Here, let’s post some quotes that Mec is just adding to her quote book:

Quotes about trust

Booker T. Washington:
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him

Alfred Adler:
Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

Quotes about beauty

Chinese proverb:
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Henry Miller:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Oscar Hammerstein, II:
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?

Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Quotes about gardens

Alfred Austin:
Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Gladys Taber:
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.

John Erskine:
I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.

Julie Moir Messervy:
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof.

May Sarton:
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Now just to make it clear, Mec doesn’t necessarily believe all of these. She does find them all worth reading and contemplating because Mec likes looking at things from different prespectives and such. Anyways, what do you think about them?

posted by Becca @ 4:14 PM