Thin Ice

It's a strange world of language 

in which skating on thin ice 

can get you into hot water.  

~Franklin P. Jones~

Pie

 

Pie...it fills the cracks of the heart.  

Go away, pain.  

~Kevin James, Mall Cop~

Happy Thanksgiving

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. 

I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, 

we had an enormous feast, 

and then I killed them and took their land.

~ Jon Stewart ~

Happy Thanksgiving

Love

Susan & Becca

From the Heart

 

He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd~

The Highest Appreciation

As we express our gratitude, 

we must never forget that the highest appreciation 

is not to utter words, 

but to live by them.  

~John Fitzgerald Kennedy~

New Day

                             

                                I welcome this new day. 
          It is a gift to me, a new creation, a promise of resurrection.
       Greetings to the Four Realms, the Goddesses and Gods, 

                              and the Kindred of Yore.
           I salute the Sun, the Earth, the Seas, and the Sky.
                 I am thankful for being alive this morning. 
               Thankful for the sleep that has refreshed me.
                      May my hands do the good work.
                           May my eyes see the truth.
                         May I speak compassionately.
                May I make the world a better place this day.
                                          Awen.
                                    ~Ceisiwr Serith~

                                  Book of Pagan Prayer

Saving Thanks

I don't save my thanks for one day a year.

I give it each day for the blessings in my life.

Action

 

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. 

 Action always generates inspiration.  

Inspiration seldom generates action. 

 ~Frank Tibolt~

Who

 

Who is wise?  He that learns from everyone. 

 Who is powerful?  He that governs his passions. 

 Who is rich?  He that is content. 

 Who is that? 

 Nobody.  

~Benjamin Franklin~

Wishes

May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!

~Irish Blessing~

More Alive

 

I often think that the night is more alive

 and more richly colored

 than the day. 

 ~Vincent Van Gogh~

Indecent Haste

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.  

~J.K. Rowling~

The closer one looks

 

Our dreams disturb us because 

they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves.  

The closer one looks, the more they seem to

 insist upon a challenging proposition:

 You must live truthfully.  Right now.  And always. 

 Few forces in life present, with an equal sense of inevitability, 

the bare-knuckle facts of who we are, 

and the demands of what we might become.  

~Marc Ian Barasch~

Lucky

I count myself lucky, 

having long ago won a lottery 

paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life. 

~Robert Brault~

I am Free

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. 

If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them;

 if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. 

I am free because I know that I alone 

am morally responsible for 

everything I do.

~Heinlein~

Excellence

Excellence is not a skill.  

It is an attitude.  

~Ralph Marston~

Improve

Don't speak 

unless you can

 improve on

 the silence. 

 ~Spanish Proverb~

Laughter

You can't deny laughter; 

when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair 

and stays as long as it wants.  

~Stephen King~

Feeling Blue

Whenever I feel blue,

 I start breathing again. 

 ~L. Frank Baum~

Thank You

To Daddy, Dave, and all the veterans!

Happy Veteran's Day!

Happy Birthday Kim!

 

Happy Birthday Kim!

I am so lucky to have

such an amazing Lady like you in my life.

I love you more than

I could ever tell you.

Happy Happy

Birthday my wonderful

Kim!

Follow your inner moonlight; 

don't hide the madness. 

 ~Allen Ginsberg`

Happy Birthday Dave

A brother is a friend given by Nature.  

~Jean Baptiste Legouve ~

Happy Birthday Brother!  I love you!

The Best

 

Things turn out best for the people 

who make the best out of 

the way things turn out. 

 ~Art Linkletter~

Knock Knock

Luck is when opportunity knocks and you answer.  

~Author Unknown~

Promise

 

Promise only what you can deliver.  

Then deliver more than you promise. 

 ~Author Unknown~

Election Day

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work.  

Of course it doesn't work.  

We are supposed to work it.  

~Alexander Woollcott~

Get your ballots in!

Beautiful and Brave

 

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives

 are princesses who are only waiting to see

 us once beautiful and brave. 

 ~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Mathematical Exactness

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.  ~Pam Brown~

Inconvenience

 

If you break your neck, 

if you have nothing to eat,

 if your house is on fire, 

then you got a problem. 

 Everything else is inconvenience.  

~Robert Fulghum~

Their Story

Clothes make a statement.  

Costumes tell a story.  

~Mason Cooley~