Wishing You a Happy Ending to 2009

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

~ Orson Welles ~




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Poor Mae Was Delusional

You're never too old to become younger.

~ Mae West ~

Well, Duh!

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

~ Albert Einstein ~


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She Should Know, She Had Nine of Them

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

~ Queen Victoria ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat?

~ Robert Stearns ~

Get Out of the Way!

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower ~

The Dayton Peace Museum is a start.

A Merry Christmas and Happy Poetry Friday!

Heap on more wood!--the wind is chill;
But let it whistle as it will,
We’ll keep our Christmas merry still.

~ Sir Walter Scott from
"Marmion: a Christmas Poem" ~

Clumsier?

I do like Christmas on the whole....In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

~ E.M. Forster ~





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Good Advice for Any Gift-Giving Occasion

Do give books--religious or otherwise--for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

~ Lenore Hershey ~

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So Who Is NORAD Tracking?

When I found out that Santa Claus wasn't real, I wasn't upset; rather, I was relieved that there was a much simpler phenomenon to explain how so many children all over the world got presents on the same night! The story had been getting pretty complicated -- it was getting out of hand.

~ Richard P. Feynman ~




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I've Felt Like This for the Past Month or So

Can we take a direct flight back to reality, or do we have to change planes in Denver?

~ Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) in the film, The Santa Clause ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed--like a dish of cream.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

Photo by Invisible Monsters

Enjoy This Last Saturday Before Christmas

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

~ Katharine Whitehorn ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

~ Leonard Cohen ~






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Remember This...

If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.

~ Norman Borlaug ~


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There's More Than One Way to See

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

~ Helen Keller ~

Me! Me! Me!

Blogs give the small person a voice.
~ Dave Miller ~

Random factoid: 133,000,000--number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002

Cheerfulness Is All Up to You!

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

~ Charlotte Bronte ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet they are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

~ P. J. O'Rourke ~

Escape!

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

~ Arthur Christopher Benson ~

Poetry Friday

Photo by StrudelMonkey
The most beautiful videos
come from reading poetry.
And they're in your head.

~ Ruth Stone from "Entering the Student's Poem" ~

The Four Food Groups

We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.

~ "Buddy" (played by Will Ferrell) from Elf ~

The Frog's Very Punny

That's pretty dangerous building a road in the middle of the street. I mean, if frogs couldn't hop, I'd be gone with the Schwinn.

~ Kermit the Frog ~

First Snow

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?

~ J. B. Priestley ~



Photo by Kristof Borkowski

Some Things Never Change

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

~ Charlotte Gray ~

Photo courtesy Lucinda McQueen

Money

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

~ P.T. Barnum ~







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Poetry Friday

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

~ Rita Dove ~

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And I Don't Think He's Talking about the Wrappings

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

~ Pierre Corneille ~

Ouch!

Cider was, next to water, the most abundant and the cheapest fluid to be had in New Hampshire, while i lived there,--often selling for a dollar per barrel. In many a family of six or eight persons, a barrel tapped on Saturday barely lasted a full week...The transition from cider to warmer and more potent stimulants was easy and natural; so that whole families died drunkards and vagabond paupers from the impetus first given by cider-swilling in their rural homes...

~ Horace Greeley ~

Details

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

~ Alfred North Whitehead ~