snowy summer porch
Normal is not something to aspire to it’s something to get away from. –Jodie Foster
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
-Barbara Tober
January 10, 2012
Women’s Words to Ponder
December 23, 2011
Important Proverb to Remember
Behind the clouds the sky is always blue. -Norwegian Proverb
December 10, 2011
Thoughtful Words
Bill's pal Toby
We Americans are the best-informed people on earth as to the events of the last 24 hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last 60 centuries.
Will and Ariel Durant
The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Gracie Allen
If you think you have it tough, read history books.
Bill Maher
November 27, 2011
Women’s Words of Wisdom to Contemplate on a Busy Day
If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing, if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it. –Wanda Sykes
People living deeply have no fear of death. –Anais Nin
Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. –Natalie Babbitt
October 10, 2011
A Few Wise Words from Terry Pratchett
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That’s true, it’s called Life.
–Terry Pratchett
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
–Terry Pratchett
September 10, 2011
Life’s Gifts
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. –Gilda Radner
August 10, 2011
Three People’s Wisdom about Life
Freighter on Puget Sound
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
-Stephen Swid
It’s not having what you want
It’s wanting what you’ve got.
-Sheryl Crow, Soak Up The Sun
The first people had questions and they were free. The second people had answers, and they became enslaved.
– Wind Eagle, American Indian Chief
July 10, 2011
Life’s Journey
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the
journey!
- Barbara Hoffman
Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!
- Jack London
Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed
– Corita Kent
May 10, 2011
More Words by Wise Women
Rosa Parks with MLK in the background
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
-Rosa Parks
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
-Barbara Tober
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
– Helen Keller
April 11, 2011
New U.S. Postal Rates begin Saturday April 16, 2011
A letter box in Belguim
I am a person who keeps up the old school correspondence by “snail mail” that I know today is so rare. I was shocked to learn, from the post-mistress today, that postcard rates were going up to .29 and the second ounce from .17 to .20 cents beginning Saturday. The first class postage will remain the same and all first-class stamps from now on are “forever” stamps.
This was the first I had heard about this and I was glad to have a little warning while I was standing at my old-fashioned counter, in a small-town America. How much longer will these post office’s remain viable?
Shock someone and send an old-fashioned hand written letter—they might frame it!
