Memorial Day

With the tears a Land hath shed
Their graves should ever be green.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~

Photo by Ed Yourdon

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Q: What's worse than raining cats and dogs?

A: Hailing taxicabs!







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Dawn

Morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Photo by James Jordan

Poetry Friday

I myself am simply a collage of my ancestor’s DNA, mixed with the hundreds of thousands of words and images and ideas that my brain has absorbed.

~ Austin Kleon ~

Remembering Art Linkletter

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

~ Art Linkletter ~

Fancy That...

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

~ Persian proverb ~

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Too Scary to Contemplate

What until recently seemed to be only the apocalyptic fantasies of the Christian faith has today entered the sphere of the soberest scientific calculations; the sudden end of history.

~ Emil Brunner ~

Breast Cancer

Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.

~ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention~

Photo by Sarah...

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair.

~ Rod McKuen from "Thirteen" ~

Friends

The friends I found in books not only helped me to understand myself better, but made it possible for me to come to understand and reach out to others.

~ Katherine Paterson ~

Poetry Friday

I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though many are hesitant to admit that they don't. I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

~ Nikki Giovanni ~

Photo by veeichik

Time

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

Well-Deserved Praise

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

How Odd!

When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

~ Jim Henson ~

I totally Agree!

People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far.

~ Richard M. Nixon ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The cat is a dilettante in fur.

~ Theophile Gautier ~

Spring Fever

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want--oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

~ Mark Twain ~

Poetry Friday

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

~ Robert Hass ~

Photo by Steve Rhodes

And the Problem Is...?

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

~ Gertrude Stein ~

Fenway Park--Home of the Red Sox

Fenway is the essence of baseball.

~ Tom Seaver ~

Goodbye, Lena

If I had been less strong, if I had been in competition with a lot of white girls, I would not have stood out the way I did. I was different, and it did give me a start. But I had to find my own ways to keep going, to get through all of that.

~ Lena Horne ~

Cooperation

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

~ Bertrand Russell ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Etolane
People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.

~ Anna Quindlen ~

And some people just can't make up their minds! --KK

Does That Apply to Bike Riding?

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

~ John D. Rockefeller ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

Solar Energy

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

~ Ralph Nader ~

Photo courtesy Fr Antunes

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

~ Frida Kahlo ~

And There's the Rub...

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

~ Mohandas K. Gandhi ~

Sharing

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

~ Buddha ~

Photo by Mr. Tea

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Any household with at least one feline member has no need for an alarm clock.

~ Louise A. Belcher ~

Happy May!

The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

~ Sir Thomas Malory ~