Legacy De Mon Pere

To live content with small means;

to seek elegance rather than luxury,

and refinement rather than fashion;

to be worthy and wealthy, not rich;

to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly;

to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart;

to hear 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 Ellery Channing

Heureuse Fete Des Pere