Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Sindre Sorhus
The cat is mighty dignified until the dog comes by.

~ Author Unknown ~

Not the Kernel

Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.

~ Henrik Ibsen ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.

~ Carl Sandburg ~

Look Carefully...

From The New Way Things Work
I honestly think all of us would be better off if everyone took the time to draw, if for no other reason than the better we see, the more inevitable curiosity becomes. Lack of curiosity is the first step towards visual illiteracy—and by that I mean not really seeing what is going on around us.

~ David Macaulay ~

It Happens...

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

So What Do You Think? Is It a Fad?

Social networking sites are the reality television of the Internet. The content is relatively inexpensive for publishers to produce, and social networking is not a fad that will disappear. If anything, it will become more ingrained in mainstream sites, just as reality TV programming has become ubiquitous in network programming.

~ Jon Gibs ~

In Flanders Fields the Poppies Blow

Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet--to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.

~ Moina Michael from "We Shall Keep the Faith" ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.

~ Winifred Carriere ~

Photo by supershaggy

May You Fly...

Photo by The Doors of Conception
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

~ William Shakespeare ~

Poetry Friday

The lines of the poem do not quite enter a clear space. There is something waiting for them. As their music and emphasis enters the strange, foggy room through a human voice they are met by the memory of summer light and fear. And so even as the words of the poem happen, they are already arranging, in the most subtle and powerful way, experiences that have already happened. They are cutting across time and completed experience to show that, after all, it was incomplete.

~ Eavan Boland ~

So Human?

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

~ Walt Disney ~


Photo by gwaar

Collecting

Photo by Zevotron
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

It's a Given--

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

I Can't Help But Weep...

She started me out washing dishes when I was four years old and when I was six she was learning me how to cook. While the other hands was working in the field I carried water. We had to cook out in the yard on an old skillet and lid, so you see I had to tote brush and bark and roll up little logs such as I could to keep the fire from one time of cooking to the other. I was not but six years old either. When I got to be seven years old I was cutting sprouts almost like a man and when I was eight I could pick one hundred pounds of cotton.

~ Mary Island, former slave ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Image by Migraine Chick
Cats, like butterflies, need no excuse.

~ Robert A. Heinlein ~

And Maybe a Few People?

He who sings scares away his woes.

~ Cervantes ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry comes in strange ways and never at the moment when one might think it should come.

~ Myra Cohn Livingston ~

Habitation

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

~ John Berger ~

Misquotations

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted...Some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

~ Carl Van Doren ~

Oooh, I Like the Way He Thinks!

Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries.

~ Henry Wotton, Sr. ~






Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London

I Believe This May Be True!

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

~ Arthur C. Clarke ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

the farm cat
makes Buddha's lap
a pillow

~ Kobayashi Issa ~



Photo by Fran 53

Here's A Woman With Too Much Time On Her Hands

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.

~ Imelda Marcos ~






Photo by Gerry Balding

Poetry Friday

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

~ Marianne Moore ~

A Broken Pitcher

The White Orchard, 1888, from the Van Gogh Museum.
The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, by so much more am I an artist--a creative artist...

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

With Any Luck...

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

~ Jimmy Carter ~

Ancient Wisdom

He who seeks vengeance must dig two graves: one for his enemy and one for himself.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Maybe If You Use Bacon-Flavored Mayo?

Photo by Martin Burns

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.

~ Doug Larson ~

Yes, there is a bacon-flavored mayo!

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal-- it's also the reason they hate birds.

~ K.C. Buffington ~

What a Nice Thought!

A book is like a garden in the pocket.

~ Indian proverb ~

Poetry Friday

Celebrate yummy words!

~ April Pulley Sayre ~

Funny How Some Things Never Change...

The public puts its mold upon us, and we come out as nearly alike as peas...Mind, health, beauty and happiness are all sacrificed to the processes of mold...
~ Mary Gove Nichols, 1853 ~

Florida Bound

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

~ Bill Haley ~



Photo by turtlemom4bacon

The Happiness of Simple Living

Coarse rice for food, water to drink, and the bended arm for a pillow--happiness may be enjoyed even in these.

~ Confucius ~

In Praise of Duct Tape

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

~ Dave Barry ~


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Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Oolong

A meow massages the heart.

~ Stuart McMillan ~

Censorship

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.

~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy ~

Poetry Friday

The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

~ Robert Penn Warren ~

You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours?

Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.

~ Jean Baudrillard ~



Photo by Hella T J

A Thought on Earth Day

Image courtesy of Pip Wilson
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Happy Birthday John Muir!

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

~ John Muir ~

These Ladies Have the Right Idea!

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

~ Alan Cohen ~


Look closely, those kites are really little men!

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Groovnick

A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.

~ Theophile Gautier ~

Bucket Advice

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

~ Swedish proverb ~

Poetry Friday

Art doesn't belong to collectors or museum docents or art historians, any more than stories belong to publishers or to those who teach literature in classrooms. Paintings and sculptures, stories, poems, and songs, although they are bought and sold, critiqued and discussed in elite setting by learned people, are valuable primarily because, if they are good and lasting, they represent the dream material of the culture and, like our personal dreams, have gifts for us if we are willing to receive them. If it does its work, creative art engages us in creative response.

~ Marilyn Chandler McEntyre ~

The Hazards of Kite Flying

Photo by Kevin H.
I fully appreciate the ability of trees to attract kites. They have special powers that way.

~ Charlie Dunton ~

Funny How That Works!

Photo by watz

Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to.

~ Author unknown ~

Who You Callin' a Bad Egg?

Photo by woodleywonderworks
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

~ C.S. Lewis ~

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black; I don't want them to see that my face is white--I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

~ Marian Anderson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by ~fb~

You'll wake up on Easter morning
And you'll know that he was there
When you find those chocolate bunnies
That he's hiding everywhere.

~ Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins ~

Guess What Age She's At

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

~ Sophie Tucker ~

I'm at the age where I need the good cash. Anyone know where I can find it? --KK

Poetry Friday

We write because we believe the human spirit cannot be tamed and should not be trained.

~ Nikki Giovanni ~

For All of Us!

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~ Lewis Carroll ~

Philosophical Implications?

I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.

~ Sherwood Schwartz (creator of Gilligan's Island)

What Sweet Solace!

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

~ John Ruskin ~






Photo by John-Morgan

How Scary Is This?

When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

~ Rene Descartes ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Joe Dunckley
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

With a Big Pat of Unsalted Butter...

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

~ Robert Browning ~

Poetry Friday

Photo by Christian Watzke

And A Sense of Humor!

If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value...

~ Thomas Alva Edison ~