Stones and Shells –

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Seven Seascapes – 2016

Seven Landscapes – 2016

Taurus – Strength – April 20th – May 20th

Rejoice, my friend, if God has made you strong: / Put forth your force to move the world along: / Yet never shame your strength to do a wrong. – Henry Van Dyke – 1918

Aries – Sacrifice – March 21st – April 19th

Snow-white and sacred is the sacrifice / That heaven demands for what our heart doth prize: / The man who fears to suffer ne’er can rise. – Henry Van Dyke 1918

Crow takes flight – Grandfather Mountain – Berlie Muten – -Barefoot Books

Rapunzel -A Treasury of Fairy Tales – Helen Cresswell – Harper Collins

Cancer – The Crab-June 22nd – July 22nd

Cancer –

The wisdom of retreat

Learn from the crab, O runner fresh and fleet,

Sideways to move, or backwards, when discreet;

Life is not all advance,—sometimes retreat!

Henry Van Dyke 1918

The Roundhill – Dick King-Smith – Viking

Gemini – May 21st – June 21st – The Twins

Bitter his life who lives for self alone,

Poor would he be with riches and a throne:

But friendship doubles all we are and own.

Henry van Dyke – 1918