Pastoral Peace Seeker Pillows

'Aside from a crazed sheep now and then, this is a very risk-free profession.'

"The kids love it, and it's saved my marriage."

"Why don't we switch off the news and give Brexit up for Lent?"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

'Where would you recommend for a tech-free experience.'

"Try thinking about something else."

"Desmond likes to live in the moment. . . and that moment happens to be 1960."

* For latent content, see your psychiatrist.

Dog in Daisys

"I'd like to book 10 days going anywhere they've never heard of Brexit."

"I hate it when we fight."

'I love it here. It really floats my boat.'

Cactus seats.

"To be honest, I don't mind the cold, and being an introvert, and slightly antisocial, I really treasure the quiet time when the others have flown south..."

Lounging by the pool

'He's the best sheepdog I ever had.'

"Yes, sir, Dave. Out here, under the big sky, I always get back in touch with who I am."

Meditation

FIGHT STRESS: Walk-A-Thon

"Hey, no problem. I am one with multiple tasks."

"I don't care what anybody says, coffee just tastes better in a tree stand. . ."

She required plenty of personal space.

Noise Pollution

But there are other pleasures still for the fisherman's delight....for nature is everywhere about him.

UNFADED GLORY

Before pagers,mobile phones and the internet.

'It WAS rather unkind of you to hide his bottle-opener, Mrs Jones.'

'Oh, yeah? -- Well, my true inner self can whip your true inner self!'

"Make me one with everything!"

Trouble everywhere...

'Dad, what is peace?'

"You have to pick the places you don't walk away from."—Joan Didion, Penny, Joan Didion.

'It feels like I'm very much in a good place these days. That is, aside from the grammar.'

"And the meaning of life is.... oh rats, the battery died."