"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
- Maya Angelou
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Words of Wisdom
Look for what is right and beautiful. It is always there for you to find.
- Lee L. Jampolsky, Ph.D. Smile for No Good Reason
Seattle, Washington
Pike's Market - Summer
Orcas Island
Another Lovely Washington Getaway
The Guardian
He settles into his chair, sitting very straight, looking out the window, Bushy white eyebrows and distinguished, well groomed white beard. He’s the perfect, argus-eyed professor-knight with eyes alert and aglow. Perhaps a pince nez for a final touch, well, maybe that’s a bit too weird, Keeping watch, guarding, protecting me and our small, cozy castle. Men and women, young and old, dogs and cats and birds, friend or foe, None are ignored or given passage without a menacing growl. But as the light fades and the shadows deepen he leaves his post, and with a sigh ruffling his beard, he curls up at my feet as I fall asleep.
I'm interested in almost everything. Use to like to travel, but it's too expensive now. I take Tai Chi classes, swim, volunteer in a Jump-start program for pre-schoolers. I'm an avid reader and like nearly everyone these days I follow politics avidly. I'm a former teacher and Special Projects Coordinator for a Telecommunications company, Assistant to the President of a Japanese silicon wafer manufacturing company. Am now enjoying retirement -- most of the time. I have two daughters, one son-in-law and two sons scattered all over the country. No grandchildren.
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Thoughts for the Day
We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Daily Quotes
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - Bertrand Russell
The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. - John Ciardi
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller
1 comment:
This was funny! Thanks, I needed that this morning.
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