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The Uplift Two
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own." ...
Austen Hayes
Oct 12 min read
The Uplift one
Words have a way of activating associated concepts and emotions. In these times we're regularly exposed to language that has the effect...
Austen Hayes
Sep 154 min read
Silhouettes and snapshots; women who touched my life...
"She was powerful not because she wasn't scared, but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear." ~ Atticus ...
Austen Hayes
Sep 16 min read
When less explains more...
"Never complain, never explain." ~ a motto used by Queen Elizabeth, said to help her ...
Austen Hayes
Aug 13 min read
The practice of trust in one small step
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times, but to make them truly ours we must think them over again...
Austen Hayes
Jul 12 min read
Reassurance in words and places
Middleton Place - Charleston, S.C. "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle shall not be...
Austen Hayes
Sep 3, 20245 min read
In Small Doses
"When love is at its best, one loves so much that (s)he cannot forget." ~ Helen Hunt Jackson The right words at the right time, said by...
Austen Hayes
Jul 10, 20245 min read
The Framed Weekly two
"Be in nature, where everything is perfect..." ~ Ken Burns In the garden - a favourite place to be. Here, something reassuring about all...
Austen Hayes
Jun 10, 20242 min read
The Framed Weekly one
click photos to expand - the interior of an antique cabinet papered with magazine clippings - one vase, one wildflower - an old wooden...
Austen Hayes
Apr 15, 20241 min read
The Simple four
- click photos to expand - great grandfather's calling card, late 1800's London a run of magnificent sheep at Dover's Hill, above...
Austen Hayes
Mar 22, 20243 min read
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