Happy Halloween!

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius

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excited
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It's nice to be using a PC again. Hooray!

Something to Tide You Over

"As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Be Patient Little One.

I wont be able to post anything for a few days in anticipation of my new computer. I know you'll be waiting on bated breath.

Mike, Chris & Bridget

Mike, Chris & Bridget
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Mike's first sale.
(Nice Drawers)

"Growing old is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

birthday

birthday
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Happy Birthday Hugh!

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination. ~Robert Fulghum

New Photos

I'll have new pics up soon. I'm working with a different (very different) computer, so it's taking some time. Also, keep your ears open for sounds! WooWoo!

Massive Quotes

Wow! Somebody had their Bartlett's out! All within five minutes too! Feel free to put your name behind your post.

Change is good...

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

Something Beautiful

Music-Pink and Blue II
Georgia O'Keefe

Old Posts

Remember, you can see old pics and posts by clicking on the archived month.

"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."

For the Shakespeare quoters out there.

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." W.S.
(especially for Chris, because I checked-out that Complete Works of William Shakespeare book on his library card and never returned it. Thus, leaving him unable to go to a public library for years.)

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. ~Michael Leunig

Black-Magic

The painting below is one of my favorites by Rene Magritte. I appreciate him as a Surrealist more than others because of the sensitivity with which he can convey things while altering it just enough to make it complex. His work is beautiful and speaks to me.

Black-Magic by Magritte

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

today's thought

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

Red's Game

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ~Janis Joplin

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

Our newest family member, Anna. Congrats to Val & Matt.

Look at this cutie!

Gone Campin'