As a typical wallflower, I enjoy observing and feeling much more than talking and can be an excellent listener with infinite patience. Although it makes me vulnerable and frail, it also makes me sensitive enough to notice beauty in all forms and sources. And that makes sense to me – being able to live and experience everything with the ultimate range of emotions and to give some meaning to this life on my part.

So here is a piece of my heart, my virtual hideaway, my place for refueling and recharging, a quiet garden for good thoughts and inspiration.

As a typical wallflower, I enjoy observing and feeling much more than talking and can be an excellent listener with infinite patience. Although it makes me vulnerable and frail, it also makes me sensitive enough to notice beauty in all forms and sources. And that makes sense to me – being able to live and experience everything with the ultimate range of emotions and to give some meaning to this life on my part.

So here is a piece of my heart, my virtual hideaway, my place for refueling and recharging, a quiet garden for good thoughts and inspiration.

To live content with small means.
To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion.
To be worthy not respectable, and wealthy not rich.
To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars, birds, babes, and sages with open heart.
To bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never.
In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.

This is to be my symphony.

– William Henry Channing