Dali will keep you busy while I'm packing...

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I do not take drugs. I am drugs. --Salvador Dali

(can you see the bull?)

How do you get 7 kids to pose at once???

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When the future hinges on the next words that are said, don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. . -Philip Robison.

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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. -Frederika Bremer.

Happy Summer!

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Summer Sun

Great is the sun, and wide he goes
Through empty heaven with repose;
And in the blue and glowing days
More thick than rain he showers his rays.

Though closer still the blinds we pull
To keep the shady parlour cool,
Yet he will find a chink or two
To slip his golden fingers through.

The dusty attic spider-clad
He, through the keyhole, maketh glad;
And through the broken edge of tiles
Into the laddered hay-loft smiles.

Meantime his golden face around
He bares to all the garden ground,
And sheds a warm and glittering look
Among the ivy's inmost nook.

Above the hills, along the blue,
Round the bright air with footing true,
To please the child, to paint the rose,
The gardener of the World, he goes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Each of us personally is accountable for the effects of our emotions and attitudes. Negative emotional energies stack up in the human system, then translate into mental, emotional and physical ailments if not brought into balance.

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I am trying very hard to learn this...

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The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
-Rumi-

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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner

MKR makes her annual pilgrimage to Krohn's Butterfly Show.

Some people are sweet enough on their own.

And all it took was a little Gatorade!

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What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature

Voltaire

Congrats to my Grads!!!

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How dare you call me a second grader!

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Fifth grade...here I come!!!

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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.
- Eric Hoffer

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"I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

Rilke

Oh c'mon! I Haven't Been Sappy in a Long Time

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See how in their veins all becomes spirit;into each other they mature and grow.Like axles, their forms tremblingly orbit,round which it whirls, bewitching and aglow.Thirsters, and they receive drink,watchers, and see: they receive sight.Let them into one another sink so as to endure each other outright.

CMR hangin' with his peeps.

I'm looking, I'm looking!

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"When we live with resentment toward another our hearts close down. Letting go of our resentment frees us from placing blame on them and allows us to look toward ourself for peace."~

Al's Cool

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Benjamin Whichcote

Ain't this the truth?

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Do not give in too much to feelings. An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.

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My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes
/ Of old, ineffectual lives linger blurred and warm;
/ An endless tapestry the past has women drapes
/ The halls of my life, compelling my soul to conform...

DH Lawrence