Neutrality is Overrated

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

~ Desmond Tutu ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:
Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea--
And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!

~ Lewis Carroll from Through the Looking Glass ~
Photo by elycefeliz

You Can!

If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing.

~ African proverb ~

Poetry Friday

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

~ John Keats ~

Hmmm...

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

~ James Brown ~

Gaze Up!

I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly--or ever--gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.

~ Brian Greene ~

Photo by Sarah G

Friendship in Everything

The greatness of a craft consists firstly in how it brings comradeship to men.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~

There's a Reason He's Called "The Father of Our Country"

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

~ George Washington ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Mistress, there are portents abroad of magic and
        might,
And things that are yet to be done. Open the door!

~ Elizabeth Coatsworth from "On a Night of Snow" ~
Photo by greenshock

Go, Wisconsin Union Workers!

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Here's some information on the situation in Wisconsin. More here. --KK

Poetry Friday

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Photo by Adam Glasgow

Especially If You Live in NH!

Make sure your blanket covers your feet.

~ Azerbaijani proverb ~

Photo by amanky

Smelling Books

Smelling books is really nostalgic for me--I am often reminded of my grandparents’ homes, or libraries where I used to go when I was a child.

~ Rachael Morrison ~

A Big Puzzle

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

~ Deepak Chopra ~
Photo by puzzlepics

Happy Valentine's Day!

Postcard image courtesy riptheskull

Sunday's Kat Kwote

For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.

~ Christopher Smart ~

Photo by Jimee, Jackie, Tom & Asha

In Honor of the People of Egypt

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

Photo by Kodak Agfa

Poetry Friday

Old Will Has a Way With Words...

She is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

~ William Shakespeare ~

Love Songs

Even a good love song can sort of awaken people. The way we travel and meet one another at the crossroads is important.

~ Dar Williams ~

Photo by Dorothea Lange courtesy Library of Congress

Suggestion: A Poet With Homicidal Tendencies

It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.

~ Dougray Scott ~



Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library

Proverbial Wisdom

A beautiful thing is never perfect.

~ Egyptian proverb ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Kittens in the garden
Looking in her face,
Learning how to spit and swear--
Oh, what a disgrace!

~ Elizabeth Anna Hart from "Mother Tabbyskins" ~
Photo by yazeed

Listen to the Birds

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind--listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

~ Eubie Blake ~

Image by Elizabeth Abernathy

Poetry Friday

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

~ E. M. Forster ~

Photo by Josep Ma. Rosell

And a Traditional Romance?...

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~

Water

Water is the driving force of all nature.

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

How Are the Two Connected?

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

~ St. Jerome ~

Image courtesy Visipix