Jessica Hatch Ertel

Crafter, Writer, Photographer, and Chef

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

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[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

In the century of jazz we are likely to overlook the emergence of the waltz as a hot and explosive human expression that broke through the formal feudal barriers of courtly and choral dance styles.

~ Marshall McLuhan

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

Today thou girdest up thy loins thyself
And goes where thou wouldest: presently
Others shall gird thee, said the Lord, to go
Where thou would’st not ...
... If He spoke
To Peter then, He speaks to us the same
-E.B. Browning, Aurora Lee

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-John Muir

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

He’s the guy you know as Dad. And he’s the guy who changed everything to change your world. This Father's Day, think about how he changed you. And tell him. https://t.co/9DuVM6BIcL #FathersDay

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

@goodreads Getting a headache just thinking of all the series of mine that would be scattered to the wind.

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

~Aldous Huxley

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

“If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.”

~Melody Carstairs

[Violeta 🏳️‍🌈 @VioletaNedkova]

Being multipassionate just means somebody who is born with an insatiable curiosity and who collects all kinds of pieces for their puzzle. And their puzzle is always unique, so don't interrupt 'em and don't ask 'em to choose. 💫

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

#OldAndNewHeadshotDay

[Ashi Labouisse @AshiLabouisse]

Do not educate your child to be rich. Educate him to be #happy, so that when he grows up he’ll know the value of things, not the price.
~ Unknown

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“There are certain things in Christianity that can be understood from the outside, before you have become a Christian. But there are a great many things that cannot be understood until after you have gone a certain distance along the Christian road.”
#CSLewis

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

When it rains look for rainbows, when it's dark look for stars.
-Oscar Wilde

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
-Madeleine L’Engle

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

To have laughed often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have to succeeded.-
Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~Alan W. Watts

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”
#CSLewis

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievements, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find, always the beauty of the lonely stream and open sea; always the glory and dream of nature. -Zane Grey

[Jessica Jones @JessicaJones]

Life hack: just don’t do stuff. it’s easier.

[Jessica Hatch Ertel @HatchDragonfly]

Even after one has read a book, when one returns after learning more outside it, there are new discoveries to be found.

-Yuu Kamiya, No Game No Life 5 (transition by Daniel Komen)