Connie Boyd

I love dogs, real and fashioned, old and new ones. Child-sized chairs and pillows made from vintage fabrics make me swoon! Collector of vintage and antique smalls, all things terrier and vintage-looking jewelry.
Dog paintings, English pottery, English dog figurines and blue and white china are among my favorite things to collect.
Avid gardener and loyal friend. Love my native, coastal North Carolina.

A favorite: An Old Irish Prayer

Deep peace of the running waves to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the smiling stars to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the watching shepherds to you.
Deep peace of the Son of Peace to you.


Another Favorite:

A friend is one
To whom one may pour
Out all the contents
Of one's heart,
Chaff and grain together,
Knowing that the
Gentlest of hands
Will take and sift it,
Keeping what is worth keeping
And with a breath of kindness
Blow the rest away...................


From John Ruskin: Victorian Writer and Art Critic

I wish you :
Some new love of lovely things,
And some new forgetfulness of the teasing things,
And some higher pride in the praising things,
And some sweeter peace from the hurrying things,
And some closer fence from the worrying things.