Thanksgiving & Christmas 2005

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.  ~Roberto Assagioli  

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.  ~George Moore
 

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.  ~Stephen King

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings

You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well.  ~Author Unknown

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.  ~George Jean Nathan

colorado

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. Miriam Makeba 

Try to reason about love and you will lose your reason.  French Proverb

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation. - John Cage    

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.  ~Mark Twain  

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.  ~Mary Bly  

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.  True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.  ~Missy Dizick  

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.  ~Oscar Wilde

chicago

October 2004

Jackson Cole Stanfield

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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.  ~Margaret Mitchell

post hurricane ivan

What is uttered from the heart alone will win the hearts of others to your own.  Goethe

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Omar Bradley

It is better to be the widow of a hero than a wife of a coward. Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to deserve  honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Mark Twain

To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals, courtesy; to inferiors, nobility.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.  Goethe

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sign that you will recognize it.  Simone Weil

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain

columbus, georgia

Sweet Peril

Alas, how easily things go wrong!
A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,

And there follows mist and a weeping rain,
And life is never the same again.

Alas, how hardly things go right!
'Tis hard to watch in a summer night,
For the sigh will come, and the kiss will stay,
And the summer night is a wintry day.

And yet how easily things go right,
If the sigh and a kiss of a summer's night
Come deep from the soul in the stronger ray
That is born in the light of the winter's day.

And things can never go badly wrong
If the heart be true and the love be strong,
For the mist, if it comes, and the weeping rain
Will be changed by the love into sunshine again.

girl's night out

ex-maids and myself being silly

He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.

Curious people ask questions; determined people find answers.

Handling criticism: if it's untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair, keep from irritation; if it's ignorant, smile; if it's justified, learn from it.

Believing in yourself is an endless destination. Believing you have failed is the end of your journey. -Sarah Meredith