Quotes ...

1. Worry is not a preparation. - Cheri Huber
2. Reach for the stars even if you have to stand on a cactus. -Susan Longacre
3. It's not what you look at that matters ... it's what you see. -Henry David Thoreau
4. Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. -E.L. Doctorow
5. One who is not taught by his or her mother will be taught by the world. -Kiswahili saying
6. I'm so good I'll put clean thoughts in your head. - ad for shampoo
7. Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once. -Anais Nin, Journals 1932
8. A moment can be anything. -Candoor
9. I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change. -Bob Dylan
10. To write is to locate my own address inside my head. -E.M. Broner
11. If you want people's approval for what you are doing with your life, you are their prisoner. -Richard Kirsten Darensai
12. All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific. -Jane Wagner/Lily Tomlin
13. Stop searching for happiness, it's just under your left foot. -anonymous
14. How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were? -Satchel Paige
15. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
    -Edward Gorey
16. Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said. - anonymous
17. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -Oscar Wilde
18. Speech is our second possession, after the soul--and perhaps we have no other possession in this world. -Gabriela Mistral
19. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -Rainer Maria Rilke
20. What would you do if you knew you could not fail? - unknown
21. No one can drive us crazy unless with given them the keys. - Doug Horton
22. Be happy; it's one way of being wise. -Sidonie Gabrielle
23. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. -Napoleon Hill
24. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde
25. The first reaction to truth is hatred. -unknown
26. Dreams are illustration ... from the book your soul is writing about you. -Marsha Norman
27. Be your own wind ... (offered by Candor)
28. Too much caution can be a big mistake. - candor
29. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. - Buckminster Fuller
30. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw
31. You live in a world that you alone create. - anonymous
32. All the world is a stage and we are not merely players - but the authors of our stories
33. Stop being background noise in your own life - Candor
34. If you only knew, you might understand. - Candor
35. The story never told is the story that never ends. - Candor
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Grace in Small Things

See for yourself:

Day One (02-27-2009): 1. Keri Noble's If No One Will Listen 2. a tiny taste of Spring rain this morning 3. Enjoying Hotel for Dogs with Stef 4. finding $5 in my jacket pocket 5. unexpected laughter

Day Two: 1. Time to write 2. A warm just out of bed snuggle with Stef 3. squeaky clean bathroom 4. my black yoga pants are clean (yeah!) 5. a warm white hoodie

I do have great ideas sometimes ... just haven't found the "key" to unlocking any kind of self-discipline to follow through on anything that has to do about me ... but there's an old cliche that goes "if at first you don't succeed ... try, try again" ... so here we go ...

Day Three: 1. Discovered "new" words so beautiful they've taken my words away 2. it's not as cold as yesterday 3. a morning to myself 4. Stef has a call-back voice audition today 5. finished "Summer House" by Nancy Thayer ... still feeling warm from a wonderful read

Day Four: 1. Soleil razors 2. Fluffly snowflakes 3. hot coffee 4. an extra hug 5. "squeaky" snow

Day Five: 1. Band Hero 2. Timmies 3. preheated car on an icy cold day 4. family 5. the smell of clean laundry

Day Six: 1. Cheese pizza 2. Belly laughs 3. Speed dial 4. warm boots 5. mittens

Day Seven: 1. Goggle chat 2. wild berry yogurt 3. scarves 4. sunshine on a cold day 5. Peanut Butter

Photography 101

Okay ... so I finally bit the bullet and signed up for a class ... for beginner's like me. Guess I like the structure of someone else telling me how best to learn ...

So ... I've got to choose a colour and a thing to photograph daily for the next month. Since I've already played this game before ... I'll stick to "skies" because I've had fun looking at clouds and seeing what's up there ... and .... (drum roll please) ... I'll choose red (I know I went for something easy ... so sue me) ...

Hmmm ... maybe I should start another blog dedicated to this newest pursuit ... (what? another blog???)