Or Take the Bus

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

~ Yogi Berra ~

Home

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

~ Robert Frost ~

Photo courtesy Robert Frost Farm.

Yup, They Do!

You know, the Beatles seem to find a new audience each time another generation comes along.

~ George Martin ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

For by stroaking of him I have found out electricity.

~ Christopher Smart from Jubilate Agno ~

Photo by Hybernaut.

Believe It!

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

~ Jack Layton ~

Poetry Friday

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

~ Jean Cocteau ~


Photo courtesy David Reverchon.

Picture This...

Whenever you're sitting across from some important person, always picture him sitting there in a suit of long red underwear. That's the way I always operated in business.

~ Joseph P. Kennedy ~

Photo by Wigwam Jones.

He Must Have Been Sleeping Under Virginia

The awakening of a giant shakes the world.

~ Arabian proverb ~

Graphic courtesy USGS.

Music

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

~ Bob Marley ~

Some Things Never Change

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

What intenseness of desire,
In her upward eye of fire!
With a tiger-leap half-way,
Now she meets the coming prey.
Lets it go as fast, and then;
Has it in her power again.

~ William Wordsworth from "See the Kitten on the Wall" ~

Photo by malingering.

And "Best" Is a Subjective Term

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best.

~ Henry Van Dyke ~

Photo by rkblogs.

Poetry Friday

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Walpole Wisdom

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

~ Horace Walpole ~

The Choice Is Yours

Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.

~ Victor Frankl from Man's Search for Meaning ~

The Importance of Writing

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

~ William Faulkner ~



Photo by Carl Van Vechten courtesy Library of Congress.

Friendship

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.

~ Albert Camus ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.

~ Christopher Smart from "Jubilate Agno" ~

Photo by ringogoingo.

Be Gentle

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

~ Kent Nerburn ~

Photo by ~Sage~

Poetry Friday

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

~ Carl Sandburg ~

One Big Machine

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and types of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason, too.

~ Brian Selznick from The Invention of Hugo Cabret ~

I Hope This Was Said Tongue-in-Cheek!

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

~ Dean Koontz ~

The Postcard Craze

Official United States Post Office figures for the year ending June 30, 1908 cited 667,777,798 postcards mailed in the United States. By 1913 the total in this country was over 968,000,000...

~ Postcard Collecting History ~

Send Me a Postcard

Sunday's Kat Kwote

A Man loved his Cat with a love quite fanatic;
He thought her darling, lovely, dainty, and
         dramatic.

~ Jean de la Fontaine ~

Photo by Terry Bain.

Today Is Do Nothing But Read Day!

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

~ Augusten Burroughs ~

Poetry Friday

Taking us by and large, we're a queer lot
We women who write poetry. And when you think
How few of us there've been, it's queerer still.

~ Amy Lowell from "The Sisters" ~

Imaginative Act

Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act.

~ Margaret Mahy ~

Why Buy?

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

~ Ricky Gervais ~

Photo courtesy Little Free Library.

I Like the Way He Thought

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

The photo of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building, as well as the structure and its contents, courtesy our taxes!

Questions Are Good!

I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.

~ Yo-Yo Ma ~

Image courtesy Open Clip Art Library.