Wednesday, December 31, 2008


A Peek Through the Opening Door

A bit of a new look here at The House of Edward as the old door opens on the fresh green day of the infant year.
With more than the usual challenges to face in every corner of the planet, but with reasons aplenty to hope for a brighter year and lighter hearts, I am filled with admiration and gratitude for the many charming and creative new friends I have encountered through this little blog effort of mine. Having really started this as an entry for my Etsy shoppe, I found that I enjoyed writing so much the shoppe sort of took a back seat. I have always loved words, and writing, but had previously only written via long letters to certain souls during my travels. I really feel as if that is what I have continued to do through this site. Thank you all for reading my letters to you. Your comments and emails have been incredibly enjoyable, interesting and kind. I do appreciate them greatly.
And just now, as I peek through the opening door at the grand mystery of a pristine new year, this particular quotation of William Ellery Channing resonates like music with the desires of my soul.

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

Edward and I wish you all a most Happy New Year.

47 comments:

  1. Thank you for your comment, I suspect it was very sincere. For that I'm grateful and most appreciative.

    Bill

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  2. I raise a cup of cheer to you Pamela. Thank you for providing a resting place here on your blog. Happy New Year to you and dear Edward!

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  3. Happy New Year Pamela.

    "Having really started this as an entry for my Etsy shoppe, I found that I enjoyed writing so much the shoppe sort of took a back seat."

    --Too right. ihad forgotten you even had an etsy shop being so caught up in your words and images, as it were.

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  4. Happy New Year to you and Edward. May 2009 be a year that's filled with blessings.

    Christi

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  5. Happy New Year, Pamela & Edward!

    May you and yours be blessed with much happiness and many joys in 2009!

    May the world be blessed with Peace & Justice in 2009!

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  6. What a perfect sentiment for us all to consider as we begin this new year! I appreciate you bringing it to our attention; but I'm not surprised as you always seem to have something unique every time I visit.

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  7. What a lovely quote, pamela...and a happy new year to you and dear edward...I look forward to visiting back and forth...

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  8. That quotation is fantastic;it has almost made my day, thank you.
    I would love to post it on my blog if you wouldn't mind me pinching it?

    Your writing is indeed something special to be nurtured.

    Happy New Year Pamela and Edward.

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  9. That quote is truly something to live up to! Thank you Pamela, your writing and manner of thought have been a great joy to me since I discovered your and Edward's blog.
    It is your elegance of mind that I admire most. Thank you for being and for blogging.
    Blessings.

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  10. Your blog is a place of pleasure.

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  11. Thank you..I am looking forward to visit your blog in this New year..
    If someone akst me to describe your blog I would use these words..
    "She writes about stars and birds, babes and sages,spirits and gentle souls, with an open heart...and we all listen and feel the magic..
    Happy New year..

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  12. Happy New Year to you Pamela.
    I would like to thank you for sharing the lovely prose, your beautiful writing but most of all for Edward.
    If wealth is defined by the animals we love, then we indeed are rich beyond all measure.SMM
    xo Susan
    PS I love the new look.

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  13. Visiting here has given me a lot of pleasure and warm smiles Pamela. Happy New Year to you and dear Edward. I have appreciated your thoughtful comments, warmth and best wishes.I enjoy your writing very much.

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  14. Pamela,
    Happy New Year~

    "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - Matthew 6:21

    Your blog is full heart in words and I always know there will treasures in store here.

    Patricia

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  15. A very BEAUTIFUL post! Your words are the treasure of my day!!
    Happy 2009 and may the year hold much happiness! xoxo

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  16. A Happy New year to you and Edward! x

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  17. Cheers and best wishes for you (and Edward!) in the New Year Pamela.
    Thank you for making this such a lovely stop on my blog tour.

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  18. Pamela, I've enjoyed reading your blog and comments this year. Happy New Year to you and to Edward!

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  19. Lovely and peaceful. Have a grand 2009.

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  20. I love that quotation - have not seen it before but it expresses my sentiments exactly. A very happy new year to you and a doggy new year to that lovely Edward.

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  21. Happy New Year to you and Edward. thanks for all the wonderful words.

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  22. I love the new look of your space, Pamela, and the quote at the end of your post - wonderful! Words to live by, to be sure.

    Happy New Year. May everything you wish for be obtainable on this side of the door.

    xo Isa

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  23. well thank goodness for us that you found your writing voice! - this is absolutely one of my favorite places to come on the net! I always feel like someone is reading me a story and it's magical! - Happy New Year!

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  24. Wishing you a wonderful New Year, Pamela and Edward.

    I am so glad that you decided to write on your blog - having only discovered it recently, I'm going to spend some more time reading your older posts too.

    You write so beautifully and upliftlingly. I am sure your visitors are empowered to live more fully the essence of today's quote from their regular refreshment at The House of Edward.

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  25. Happy New Year Pamela and Edward,

    Your Etsy shop is charming but I feel that your number one talent is writing. It is a real gift, a rare gift and you do it so well! I wish I had that talent, remember the parable of the talents, "those to whom much is given, much will be expected".

    I wish you an inspirational New Year.

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  26. As ever your words are an inspiration. Buster and I send our heartfelt greetings for a splendid blog filled New Year.
    Gina
    x

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  27. Your writing is elegant - and I am very happy to have recently found your site...I love the quotation you have offered ..lots to think about for the beginning of a new year..

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  28. Pamela, the loveliness shines through each and every post you write. The images you share are beautiful. Thank you for sharing thoughts, words and pictures that excite the senses............and I'm honored that I was part of your inspiration to share you talents with us despite being separated by miles.

    Keep the beauty coming in this new year - and may it be the best one ever for you and yours.
    Fondly, Mary.

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  29. Happy New Year Pamela & sweet Edward.

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  30. What a lovely quotation, Pamela - I haven't come across William Ellery Channing before, but that resonates with me, too. I've very much enjoyed my brief visits to The House of Edward - there's always something thoughtful and often surprising here. Wishing you all the very best for 2009 and looking forward to many more peeks through your door.

    xxx

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  31. As ever, a most telling an haunting image.
    New Year greetings!

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  32. Happy New Year to you and your family :)

    Lovely words and maybe we could all try to carry them in our hearts this year, to help when times get a little tough.

    Kim x

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  33. Happy New Year, friend.

    And to your little dog too.

    May this be the year that your dreams of the Scottish Highlands come true.

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  34. A happy and healthy new year to you and Edward!

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  35. I just read this quote on another blog and everything within me said, amen, these words are ones to live by.

    Your new outlook lace with hope for the New Year is uplifting.

    Your writings are deep and rare, a joy to contemplate. This coming from a very simple girl~Fairmaiden

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  36. Happy 2009 to you and your husband Pamela, and to Edward and Apple too! I always enjoy my visits to your lovely blog.

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  37. Pamela~ As Robyn said... "thank you for providing a resting place..."~ after reading your entries, I feel that sweet, restfulness we feel, just as an afternoon sleep settles in.
    Happy New Year

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  38. Happy New Year to all at the house of Edward... I'm looking forward to a 2009 full of visits to your beautiful blog. :)

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  39. A perfect New Year quotation but then I wouldn't expect anything less from you Pamela!
    A very Happy New Year to you and Edward.
    I say again, please consider publishing your posts and images in a book.

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  40. Pamela, I am always so delighted when I see you have stopped by and commented. There are so many in your following. Thank you for your New Year's greeting and thanks to Edward also who would if he could, I suspect, greet each of us himself.

    I've just caught up on your Christmas writing and I loved your Christmas Eve entry. Edward's Christmas photo is also beautiful....I wish I too could squat in front of him and plant a kiss right smack on his mouth. With no dog of my own just now, I must enjoy dog love, which I actually crave, vicariously through other's wonderful pups.

    Happy New Year!

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  41. Beautiful sentiments. Blessings to you all.

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  42. Dear Pamela, you bring pleasure, inspiration and comfort to so many of us through your writing. I am happy and grateful for the now forgotten thread that led me to your blog and for the times you commented on mine.
    I add my best wishes to all at Edward's house!

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  43. Thank you Pamela for your inspiration. Happy New Year!

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  44. wishing both you & Edward a wonderful new year, may it be all that you wish for *ruthie8

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  45. Pamela,
    So happy to have met you this year. I also have always loved writing in the letter format. I can't even tell you how many letters I've written but didn't send - just for the joy of writing in letter form. I was originally going to do my entire blog in letters but for some reason I went in another direction. And I suspect that there are more directions ahead of me! Looking forward to many more visits here at The House of Edward.
    Catherine

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  46. Thank you for making the Blogosphere such a joyable place. From the House of Edward is a portal to a world that many of us long to enter, and to stay a while.

    Happy New Year to you as well!

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