Tag Archives: simple

Oct24

simple gifts.

Posted on October 24, 2021 by beth

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carried from home to school

clutched in chubby hand

tiny simple gift

brings precious beauty

to a teacher’s heart.

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“sometimes, said pooh, the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

-a.a. milne – winnie the pooh

Oct14

to say the least.

Posted on October 14, 2021 by beth

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life.

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“i am a minimalist. i like saying the most with the least.”

-bob newhart

May15

spaces.

Posted on May 15, 2019 by beth

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stop filling all the spaces.

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as you simplify,

let the extra spaces

in your home,

on your calendar

and in your mind

be empty for awhile.

the emptiness may be uncomfortable at first,

but that’s where the answers lie.

soon you’ll have room for what you really want.

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source: be more with less.

Aug4

simplicity.

Posted on August 4, 2018 by beth

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finding summer simplicity

blue fairies

“truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

-isaac newton

Dec17

liquid assets.

Posted on December 17, 2016 by beth

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Cuba offers rum to pay off $276m Czech debt

Cuban rum is a popular tipple in the Czech Republic. Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic – bottles of its famous rum, officials in Prague say.
The Czech finance ministry said Havana had raised this possibility during recent negotiations on the issue.

Cuba owes the Czech authorities $276m (£222m), and if the offer is accepted the Czechs would have enough Cuban rum for more than a century. However, Prague said it preferred to get at least some of the money in cash.

Havana’s debt dates back from the Cold War era – when Cuba and what was at the time Czechoslovakia were part of the communist bloc. Cuba now does not have much money but it does have lots of rum – hence this unusual proposal, says the BBC’s Rob Cameron in Prague.

The Czech finance ministry said repayment was possible either with rum or pharmaceutical drugs. But Cuban drugs lack EU certification, so repayment with a more traditional medicine – popular in the Czech Republic – may be easier to arrange, our correspondent adds.

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“the best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.”

-julian casablancas

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credits:bbc news, reuters,