Happy One Three Shannon!!!

Happy Happy Birthday

Miss Shannon Victoria!

I am so proud of the

wonderful awesome person you are.

Your outer Child may grow but

you will always have

your inner Child 

that shines!!

I LOVE YOU!!!

The reluctance to put away

 childish things may be 

a requirement of genius. 

 ~Rebecca Pepper Sinkler~

Happy 16th Birthday Sean

Happy Birthday Sean!!!!

16 years old,

how the hell did that happen?

I am so very proud of

the wonderful man you

are becoming.

Keep being Awesomely Strange!!

The best substitute

 for experience is 

being sixteen.

 ~Raymond Duncan~

The End

 

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.

 ~Garrison Keillor~

 

 

That is all for now.

HHH needs to take a break.

Thank You

Everyone.

Cloudy Day

 

A cloudy day

 is no match for 

a sunny disposition. 

~William Arthur Ward~

Borne

 

I like to think of thoughts as

 living blossoms borne by

 the human tree. 

~James Douglas~

Pumpkin Season

 

Oh how we love pumpkin season. 

You did know this gourd-ish squash

 has its own season, right? 

Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... 

We anxiously anticipate it every year.

~Trader Joe's~

Tomorrow be Today

 

Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
Tomorrow be today.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~   

Every Day

 

The day I see a leaf 

 is a marvel of a day.
~ Kenneth Patton~

flaming torches

 

October’s poplars

 are flaming torches

 lighting the way

 to winter. 

~Nova S. Bair~

Peace & Love

 

Darkness cannot drive out darkness:

only light can do that.

 Hate cannot drive out hate:

 only love can do that. 

~Martin Luther King Jr ~

Life

 

Life is simple, 

it's just not easy.
~Author Unknown~

Look

 

  If you want to know where your heart is, 

look where your mind wanders.

~ Unknown~

Detour

 

A truly happy person

 is one who can enjoy the scenery

 while on a detour.

 ~Author Unknown~

Curiosity

 

It is a miracle

 that curiosity survives 

formal education.

~ Albert Einstein~

Along the Road

 

There are only two mistakes

 one can make along the road to truth; 

not going all the way, 

and not starting.

~ Buddha~ 

Footprints

Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.
~ Baltimore Grotto~

Believe

 

Believe you can 

and you’re halfway there.

~Theodore Roosevelt~

 

Infinite

The day is of infinite length

 for him who knows how 

to appreciate and use it.

~Goethe~

The Sky

The sky is the 

daily bread

 of the eyes. 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

October

 

I'm so glad

 I live in a world 

where there are

 Octobers.

 ~ L.M. Montgomery~

Free and Easy

 

If you only get to go around one time
I'm gonna sit back and try to enjoy the ride
I could make a million or wind up broke
Free and easy down the road I go
Can't take it with you when you go so
Free and easy down the road I go
Someday I know it's gonna take me home so
Free and easy down the road I go

~ Dierks Bentley~

What Lies

 

What lies behind you 

and what lies in front of you, 

pales in comparison to what

 lies inside of you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Happy Birthday Dad

 

And in the end,

 it’s not the years

 in your life that count.

 It’s the life in your years

~Abraham Lincoln~

Ourselves

 

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,

 none but ourselves can free our minds!

~Bob Marley~

Bittersweet

Bittersweet October. 

 The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking,

 perfect pause
between the opposing miseries

 of summer and winter.
~ Carol Bishop Hipps~

What I Mean

 

When hungry, eat your rice; 

when tired, close your eyes. 

Fools may laugh at me,

 but wise men will know 

what I mean.
~Lin-Chi~

Life

 

Life is not a problem to be solved,

 but a reality to be experienced.

~ Soren Kierkegaard~

Self-Respect

 

That you may retain your self-respect,

 it is better to displease the people

 by doing what you know is right,

 than to temporarily please them by

 doing what you know is wrong.

~William J. H. Boetcker~

Obedience

 

It is necessary to

 distinguish between 

the virtue and the vice

 of obedience. 

 ~Lemuel K. Washburn~

Thinking

 

Thinking is like loving and dying. 

Each of us must do it for himself. 

~Josiah Royce~

Inconceivable

 

What sunshine is to flowers,

 smiles are to humanity. 

These are but trifles, to be sure;

 but, scattered along life’s pathway,

 the good they do is inconceivable.
~Joseph Addison~

Illusion

 

 Normal is an illusion.

 What is normal for the spider

 is chaos for the fly.

 ~ Morticia Addams~

Each and Every

 

Be kind,

 be all sympathy,

 for each and every 

human being

 is forced to fight 

against himself.

 ~Sri Chinmoy~

May Lead

 

Do not go where the path may lead, 

go instead where there is no path

 and leave a trail.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

Which Way

 

You don't need a weather man

 To know which way

 the wind blows 

~Bob Dylan ~

Bow to You

 

Painful though parting be,

 I bow to you

 as I see you off

 to distant clouds. 

~Emperor Saga~

 

You will be so very missed

Big Buddy.

We Love you.

Sunshine

Some people

 are so much sunshine

 to the square inch.

 ~Walt Whitman~

GPS

 

Feelings are really your GPS system for life.

 When your supposed to do something,

 or not supposed to do something,

 your emotional guidance system

 lets you know.   

 ~ Oprah Winfrey~

Extraordinary

 

    The purpose of life is to live an ordinary life

 in an extraordinary manner.  

~Vikrant Parsai ~

Don't Wait

 

Infuse your life with action.

 Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen.

 Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love.

 And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator,

 not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high,

 but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself,

 right now, right down here on Earth. 

~Bradley Whitford~

Produce

 

If we do not permit the Earth 

to produce beauty and joy, 

 it will in the end 

not produce food either.

 ~ Joseph Wood Krutch~

Motivation

 

Motivation is a fire from within. 

If someone else tries to light that fire under you, 

chances are it will burn very briefly.

~Stephen R. Covey~

Dreaming

 

Dreaming permits each and every one of us

 to be quietly and safely insane

 every night of our lives.  

~William Dement~

I Live

 

With arms outstretched I thank.
With heart beating gratefully I love.
With body in health I jump for joy.
With spirit full I live.
~Terri Guillemets~

Proactive

 

Happiness,

 like unhappiness,

 is a proactive choice.

~Stephen Covey~

Perches

 

Hope is the thing with feathers,

that perches in the soul,

and sings the tune without words,

and never stops at all.

~Emily Dickinson~

Dreaming

Never stop dreaming 

of moonbeams and fairy dust,

 shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens,

 a happier life and a better world.

~ James J. Gormley~

Kaleidoscopic

 

A tangerine and russet cascade
Of kaleidoscopic leaves
Creates a tapestry of autumn magic
Upon the emerald carpet of fading summer.
~ Judith A. Lindberg~

Special Person

 

I love being married.

 It’s so great to find one special person 

you want to annoy for 

the rest of your life.

~Rita Rudner~

 

15 years

 My Monkey

I Love you more

each day.

 

Goofy Stuff

You're never too old 

to do goofy stuff.  

~ Ward Cleaver~