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So, we survived another weekend of class (Friday 7-9 pm, Saturday 9-4) - guh. So, of course, since we were gone all day and took all the pictures off the wall (so they wouldn't vibrate off), the roofers did not work on the roof today, despite the perfect weather and telling us that they would. Grrr! Who knows when they will be back to annoy us finish the re-roofing process?
"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
-- Alice and Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day." Kent Nerburn
A life of gratitude accepts the bad with the good. Genuine gratitude is not a zero sum game in which thankfulness increases the more fortunate you are and decreases the more adversity you experience. Dan Clendenin
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi
Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)
At night, when the hair grows on your face, and your body grows longer, and dinner is changed to blood, and your nails grow longer, you ought to remember, however empty your sleep, how much is untouched by the
conscious mind. Delmore Schwartz
"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." --William Faulkner
"One has to live a life that creates a writer." --Erno Paasilinna
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
another version: Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." --Maya Angelou
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -- James Gordon, M.D.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical. -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. -- Joseph Conrad
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning." Aaron Copland
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us." Jawaharlal Nehru
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharlal Nehru
"Humility is strong,
But not bold,
Quiet,
But not speechless,
Sure,
But not arrogant."
~~ Estelle Smith
"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
"When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
-- Alice and Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
"Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day." Kent Nerburn
A life of gratitude accepts the bad with the good. Genuine gratitude is not a zero sum game in which thankfulness increases the more fortunate you are and decreases the more adversity you experience. Dan Clendenin
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. St. Francis of Assisi
Whenever morality is based on theology, whenever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established. -Ludwig Feuerbach, philosopher (1804-1872)
At night, when the hair grows on your face, and your body grows longer, and dinner is changed to blood, and your nails grow longer, you ought to remember, however empty your sleep, how much is untouched by the
conscious mind. Delmore Schwartz
"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does." --William Faulkner
"One has to live a life that creates a writer." --Erno Paasilinna
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot defend themselves or run away. And few destroyers of trees ever plant any; nor can planting avail much toward restoring our grand aboriginal giants. It took more than three thousand years to make some of the oldest of the Sequoias, trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
another version: Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed, chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." --Maya Angelou
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -- James Gordon, M.D.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. -- Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. -- Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical. -- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. -- Joseph Conrad
"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning." Aaron Copland
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us." Jawaharlal Nehru
"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open." Jawaharlal Nehru
"Humility is strong,
But not bold,
Quiet,
But not speechless,
Sure,
But not arrogant."
~~ Estelle Smith
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