Awards

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

~ Jesse Owens ~

Happy New Year!

A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens.

~ Chinese proverb ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats also don't laugh out loud, but when a cat executes a prank successfully, it always seems pretty pleased about it.

~ Lynne Powell ~

I Think It Depends on What's Being Served

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

~ Dr. Seuss ~

Poetry Friday

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Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

~ Boris Pasternak ~

Language Can be Tricky

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

~ Franklin P. Jones ~

Listen Up!

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Where words fail, music speaks.

~ Hans Christian Andersen ~

Today's a Day to Celebrate!

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives. I beg you to remember this, not merely for my sake, but for yours. I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has. It is in order that each of you may have through this free government which we have enjoyed, an open field and a fair chance for your industry, enterprise and intelligence; that you may all have equal privileges in the race of life, with all its desirable human aspirations.

~ Abraham Lincoln ~

Happy Birthday, Dr. King!

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.

~ Nan Porter ~

Sleepwear

Be careful what you wear to bed at night, you never know who you'll meet in your dreams.

~ Anonymous ~





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Poetry Friday--O, Yes!

O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.

~ Langston Hughes from
"Let America Be America Again" ~

All Writers Know This!

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Memory

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

~ Barbara Kingsolver ~

Libraries--The Anti-Weapon

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

~ Carl T. Rowan ~

Here's One Heap It's Better to Be At the Bottom Of

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

~ Edward Gorey ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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Cats don't like change without their consent.
~ Roger Caras ~

These Are the Only Two Choices?

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

~ Edith Wharton ~

Poetry Friday

isn't there always
a little more room
on the skin? It's too late

to be unwritten,
and I'm much too scrawled
to ever be erased.

~ Mark Doty from "My Tattoo" ~

The Fearsome Brussels Sprout

We kids feared many things in those days - werewolves, dentists, North Koreans, Sunday School--but they all paled in comparison with Brussels sprouts.

~ Dave Barry ~




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You Can Catch More Flies With Honey...

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.

~ Billy Wilder ~

I Love This Quote

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

~ Helen Keller ~

Every Job Has Its Own Set of Skills

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

~ Princess Margaret ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote--Just for the Picture!

When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

~ George Carlin ~


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Sorry, I Couldn't Resist!

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

~ Kathleen Mifsud ~

Poetry Friday--Revision

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Happy New Year!

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

~ Benjamin Franklin ~

New Year's Eve Advice

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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

~ Dean Martin ~

Waste Not, Want Not

Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much vermouth.

~ Steve Allen ~

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Maybe If You Use a Flashlight...

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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

The true soul is the one that flickers in the eyes
Of an animal, like a cat that lifts its head and yawns
And stares at you, and then goes back to sleep.

~ John Koethe from "Chester" ~

The Gift

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

~ Emile Zola ~

Yesterday Was Her Graduation Day--R.I.P.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

~ Eartha Kitt ~




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Peace on Earth

I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~

Christmas Eve--At Last!

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.

~ Clement C. Moore ~

Something to Think About...

The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~

The Right Attitude

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble.

~ Rudyard Kipling ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games.

~ T.S. Eliot ~

A cat is not like dog--if it wants to come when you call it, you can call it anything! If it doesn't want to come it won't, and that's all there is to it! I'm afraid Eliot would have been better off playing a game or two! --KK

The Silver Lining to Our Current Economic Crisis?

We can no longer allow the money economy to grow like a cancer on our society, until it takes over all facets of life. The economy needs to serve people, communities, and the health of natural systems, not the other way around. Instead of relying on footloose unaccountable global corporations, we can turn to local and regional production to serve our needs and provide sustainable employment, including small and medium-sized businesses, co-ops, farmer’s markets, and so on.

~ Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel ~

Poetry Friday

Poets are never young in one sense. Their delicate ears hear the far off whispers of eternity, which courser souls must travel toward for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ~

Oh, Yeah?

The cops can't catch every crook, but a sophisticated financial system should be able to spot a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme operating in its midst for years.

~ Wall Street Journal ~

Reading is Sexy!

For all the talk of our superficial obsession with beauty, it looks like underneath it all we know that brains contribute to sex appeal too.

~ Honor Wilson-Fletcher ~

Elf Advice

The best way to spread Christmas Cheer, is singing loud for all to hear.

~ Will Farrell in Elf ~

With Thanks to Those Who Helped Others After the Ice Storm

At such moments, you realize that you and the other are, in fact, one. It's a big realization. Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

~ Joseph Campbell ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Friday was Frank Sinatra's birthday, so, in his honor, I'm taking a little liberty with my Kat Kwote for today. --KK


I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life....I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

~ Frank Sinatra ~

Thoughts For After the Ice Storm

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

~ Albert Schweitzer ~

A Dangerous Weapon

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

~ Dorothy Parker ~

Ya Got That?

Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

~ Russell Lynes ~

Funny How That Works...

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

~ Richard Lamm ~

The Only Reason to Sing!

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

~ Maya Angelou ~

Wonders of the Internet

Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call "death of distance."

~ Tim Jones ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

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The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

~ Naomi Shihab Nye from "Famous" ~

Something to Remember on a Cold Grey Day

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

~ Joseph Addison ~

Poetry Friday--It's Comin'

'Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain't no flies on me.
But jest 'fore Christmas I'm as good as I kin be!

~ Eugene Field from "Jest 'fore Christmas" ~

So That's What Love Is?

Sometimes me think what is love, and then me think love is what last cookie is for. Me give up the last cookie for you.

~ Cookie Monster ~

Fruitcake

A little publicized method of determining whether a woman was a witch during the Salem Witch Trials was to offer the suspect a piece of fruitcake. If she ate it and lived, it was considered proof that she was, in fact, a witch.

~ The ReTRo HouSeWiFe ~

Decorating

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

~ Anna Quindlen ~

Comforting Thought

We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

~ Robert Heinlein ~

Right-Brained People Have a Definite Advantage

Life isn't about finding yourself--life is about creating yourself.

~ George Bernard Shaw ~