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If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Pam Brown

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Pam Brown
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Seymour
Victoria
Australia
Left
Breath
Breaths
Thank
Integrity
Wisdom
Hope
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A bag of apples, a pot of homemade jam, a scribbled note, a bunch of golden flowers, a coloured pebble, a box of seedlings, an empty scent bottle for the children. . . . Who needs diamonds and van-delivered bouquets?
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The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.
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Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.
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Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
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From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
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A horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.
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Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.
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Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.
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When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?
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Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.
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It should be possible to exist with only a short shelf of books, to read and give away. After all - we may not open a book, once read, for ten years or more. But the act of reading has made it part of us - to relinquish it would be to lose an extension of our being.
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We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.
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Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.
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Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.
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Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
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Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.
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Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
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It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.
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The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
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The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end.
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