Forget the Rules!

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

~ Samuel Butler ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Bundu
Kittens are born with their eyes shut. They open them in about six days, take a look around, then close them again for the better part of their lives.

~ Stephen Baker ~

Waiting for Tropical Storm Danny

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

~ Morris West ~





Photo by Divine Tokyoska

Poetry Friday

sing every word
of whatever you don't dream

sing every
word

~ Patricia Smith from "Remembering to Sing" ~

Take Heed

I don't like to see good science pushed to the sidelines just because it conflicts with narrow interests pushing their self-serving agendas. Such politics as usual helped to inundate New Orleans in 2005. If science and engineering had been allowed to play their proper role in the development of policies for the wetlands and the levees, we wouldn't be in this situation today. If nothing changes in the future, one fifth of the state of Louisiana--everything south of Interstate 10, including the city of New Orleans in its entirety--will disappear beneath the waves, gone for good, and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.

~ Ivor van Heerden ~

Moooooo

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.

~ Ogden Nash ~

Probably to the Mall

Photo by Mr. Werner
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

~ Jack Kerouac ~

Life As a Game of Cards!

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

It is a bold mouse that makes her nest in a cat's ear.
~ Danish proverb ~
Photo by Michael needs more photo time

Etiquette

Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.

~ Quentin Crisp ~

Poetry Friday

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

~ Mary Oliver ~






Photo by Andrea Peverali

Project Runway Starts Today!

Make it work.

~ Tim Gunn ~

Climb That Hill!

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~

Roberto Clemente

I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give.

~ Roberto Clemente ~



Photo by glindsay65

Roberto Clemente was born on this date in 1934.

Harvest Time!

Photo courtesy of Val's Photos
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

~ Douglas Jerrold ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by ladybugbkt

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.
~ Ernest Menaul ~

Such a Smart Guy!

Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Poetry Friday

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

~ Robert Frost ~




Photo by Elizabeth Thomsen

Keep On Trying!

Keep your eye on the high mark and you will hit it. Not the first time nor the second and maybe not the third, but if you keep on aiming and keep on trying, you'll hit the bull's eye of success.

~ Annie Oakley ~

Are You Up for a Ride?

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

~ William Butler Yeats ~

And Drool a Little, Too!

Photo by Rachel is...
When you look at a cupcake, you've got to smile.

~ Anne Byrn ~

R.I.P. John Hughes

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!

~ John Hughes ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Spotrick

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

~ Judith Merkle Riley ~

Remembering Harry Patch

Any one of them could have been me. Millions of men came to fight in this war and I find it incredible that I am the only one left.

~ Harry Patch ~

Radiohead: Harry Patch (In memory of)

Poetry Friday

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

~ Thomas Hardy ~

Ain't It the Truth!

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

~ Franklin Pierce ~




Photo by cliff1066

Yoga

The word yoga literally means to join up, or to yoke together. What we're trying to join together in yoga is the body, the mind and the spirit.

~ Alison Donley ~

Sad...

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

~ Carl Bernstein ~

One Man's Junk Is Another Man's Treasure

I could see no reason why used tram tickets, bits of driftwood, buttons and old junk from attics and rubbish heaps should not serve well as materials for paintings; they suited the purpose just as well as factory-made paints...

~ Kurt Schwitters ~





Photo by unforth

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by chickenofeathers

No matter how much the world changes, cats will never lay eggs.

~ Bambara proverb ~

So True...

No two persons ever read the same book.

~ Edmund Wilson ~

Poetry Friday

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

~ Hilaire Belloc ~

It's Feeling

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

~ Bill Evans ~

Or, a Candy Bar?

Photo courtesy of Sir Mervs
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

~ Galileo Galilei ~

Communication

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~

Not Only That--It Means You Get to Eat!

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow.

~ Jane Austen ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Photo by Randy Son of Robert

The cat is the mirror of his human's mind...the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance.

~ Winifred Carriere ~

I Like Her Attitude!

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

~ Sophia Loren ~



Photo courtesy COLARES&ARTE

Poetry Friday

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

~ Christina Rossetti ~





Photo courtesy sokaris73

Thanks!

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader,...As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day.

~ Nora Roberts ~

Oooh, Poor Thomas Stearns

My name is only an anagram of toilets.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

Bridges

Photo by Write Pics
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

~ David Russell ~

R.I.P., Frank McCourt

University librarians poked me when I snored behind a stack of books. One librarian told me snoozing was strictly forbidden. She was kind enough to suggest that out in Washington Square Park there was no end of benches where I could stretch till the cops came. I thanked her and told her how I'd always admired librarians, not only for their mastery of the Dewey Decimal System, but for their helpfulness in other areas of daily living.

~ Frank McCourt ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

~ Wesley Bates ~



Photo by Smiling da Vinci

It Smells Like Summer!

Photo by Rick Harris
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

~ Diane Ackerman ~

Poetry Friday

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

~ G. K. Chesterton ~





Photo by inga.anger

Necessities

Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

~ Harry S. Truman ~


Photo by chicks57

Enthusiasm Will Only Take You So Far

Exuberance is a good stimulus towards action, but the inner light grows in silence and concentration.

~ Egyptian proverb found on a temple in Luxor ~

Happy Bastille Day!

I cannot prevent the French from being French.

~ Charles de Gaulle ~

A Man With a Message

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Which is more beautiful--feline movement or feline stillness?

~ Elizabeth Hamilton ~






Photo by Inma

Vacation

A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.

~ Author unknown ~

Poetry Friday

What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.

~ W. H. Auden ~

And That's That!

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

~ Theodore Roosevelt ~