Sunday, September 30, 2007


Show perfect courtesy toward
all people.
*
-Titus 3:2

Saturday, September 29, 2007

photo by damien

Sisters are different
flowers from the same
garden.
*
Happy 17th and 19th birthdays to my beautiful daughters
Kyrie and Chalice. Chalice turned yesterday, and Kyrie
turns tomorrow.

If I knew I was going to live this long,
I'd have taken better care of myself.
*
-Mickey Mantle

Friday, September 28, 2007


As long as there are
postmen, life will have
zest.
*
-William James

Thursday, September 27, 2007

illustration by peter max

I am not afraid of storms, for I
am learning how to sail my ship.
*
-Louisa May Alcott

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

photograph by carina romano

Life's a voyage that's
homeward bound.
*
-Herman Melville

Tuesday, September 25, 2007


Marriage is an adventure,
like going to war.
*
-G. K. Chesterton

Monday, September 24, 2007


Go to the edge of the cliff
and jump off. Build your
wings on the way down.
*
-Ray Bradbury

Sunday, September 23, 2007

photo by annie huntington

I will not set before my eyes
anything that is worthless.
*
-Psalm 101:3

Saturday, September 22, 2007


Like jewels in a crown,
the precious stones glittered in
the queen's round metal hat.
*
-Jack Handey

Friday, September 21, 2007


Thank goodness I was never
sent to school. It would
have rubbed off some of
the originality.
*
-Beatrix Potter

Thursday, September 20, 2007


Rhythm is something you either
have or don't have, and when you
have it, you have it all over.
*
-Elvis Presley

Wednesday, September 19, 2007


My sketchbook is a witness
of what I am experiencing,
scribbling things whenever
they happen.
*
-Vincent van Gogh

Tuesday, September 18, 2007


I may not have gone where
I intended to go, but I
think I have ended up
where I needed to be.
*
-Douglas Adams

Monday, September 17, 2007


Turn and face the
strange ch ch changes.
*
-David Bowie

Sunday, September 16, 2007


We all do fade as a leaf.
*
-Isaiah 64:6

Saturday, September 15, 2007


One cannot conceive anything
so strange and so implausible
that it has not already been said
by one philosopher or another.
*
-Rene Descartes

Friday, September 14, 2007

photo of the beloved jember by chalice

On the internet, nobody
knows you're a dog.
*
-Peter Steiner, New Yorker Cartoon

Thursday, September 13, 2007

photograph by W. Eugene Smith

Only children know what
they are looking for.
*
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

Wednesday, September 12, 2007


8A slinky will stretch to 87 feet (flat).
8Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.
8It takes about 3000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a season's worth of footballs.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007


What other dungeon is so
dark as one’s own heart?
What jailer so inexorable
as one’s own self?
*
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Monday, September 10, 2007


If this is coffee, please bring
me some tea; but if this is tea,
please bring me some coffee.
*
-Abraham Lincoln

Sunday, September 09, 2007


Unite my heart to fear your name.
*
-Psalm 86:11

Saturday, September 08, 2007


Life is full of misery,
loneliness, and suffering -
and it's all over much
too soon.
*
-Woody Allen

Friday, September 07, 2007


All the beautiful sentiments in
the world weigh less than a
single lovely action.
*
-James Russell Lowell

Thursday, September 06, 2007


I'd like to live
as a poor man with
lots of money.
*
-Pablo Picasso

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Rene Magritte, The False Mirror

It's not what you look at
that matters; it's what
you see.
*
-Henry David Thoreau

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

photo by kyrie anna ruth

Be yourself.
Everyone else is
already taken.
*
-Oscar Wilde
(HT:Aubren)

Monday, September 03, 2007


I thought about how mothers
feed their babies with tiny
little spoons and forks so I
wondered, what do Chinese
mothers use? Toothpicks?
*
-George Carlin

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Gustave Baumann, Cottonwood Tassels

A gentle tongue is a tree of life.
*
-Proverbs 15:4

Saturday, September 01, 2007


You don't have to cook fancy
or complicated masterpieces -
just good food from fresh
ingredients.
*
-Julia Child