"That’s the secret to teaching, really. Engage the emotions,
and minds will follow." Cesar Milan

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.” - Stephen Colbert

Pray only with gratitude, because who are you to try to change God's mind.--unknown

Who ate your bowl of sunshine this morning, thundercloud?

‎"We can’t control the behavior of individuals; however, we can cultivate organizational cultures where behaviors are not tolerated and people are held accountable for protecting what matters most: human beings." -Brené Brown

Gratitude turns what we have, into enough.-unknown

"Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion . . . Mend the part of the world that is within your reach." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.”
― Byrd Baggett

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go either wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong; I cannot. If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.” - C.S. Lewis

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

When people choose to withdraw far from a fire,
the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold.
When people choose to withdraw far from light,
the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness.
This is also the case when people withdraw from God.
-Augustine

“Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.” - Andy Rooney

‎"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be who we pretend to be." - Socrates

If you still talk about it, you still care about it. -unknown

War is just terrorism with a bigger budget.

"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
A good reminder today. When I hear people say that they are just judging by the fruit they see in someone's life, I cringe! We must all be careful that our grading system is the same one you want Jesus to use with you. So heres an idea....let's let Jesus be the judge and let's just love. It's our greatest command anyhow, let's keep whats important important! (Paula's friend, Holly)

"Someone can be doing terrible things and still be a victim--can have done wrong and still deserve help."--David Kennedy

Apologizing doesn't mean that you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value the relationship more than your ego.--unknown

"We believe not only in universal tolerance, but we accept all religions as true. As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different paths which men take through different tendencies various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God." ~ Swami Vivekananda

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
— Dalai Lama

‎"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Woody Allen

‎"If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters." - Alan Simpson

The freedom that comes with boundaries is that we can allow other people to own their own behavior, actions and reactions to our choices and we are not responsible for their attitudes. This cuts down on a lot of drama.--Cherilyn Clough.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. - Isaac Asimov

Other than telling us how to die, live, think, marry, pray, vote, invest and educate our children I think the Republicans have done a fine job of getting government out of our personal lives.--unknown

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you
could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget
them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well
and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with
your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed) US
essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

From: We survived Bush. You will survive Obama.
It's very inauthentic during a conversation for a person to demand 'evidence'. As if I drag a filing cabinet around with me filled with all of the random facts of life. Quite smug. How about a little good faith? I have a grand idea, we each make a list of any contested points, and after the conversation we can go and verify them together. Any facts proven wrong cost $5 each, payable on the spot. Bring your wallet.

‎"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world. We can do this even at the most difficult moments. Everything we see, hear, taste, and smell has the power to strengthen and uplift us." - Pema Chodron

"What if imagination and art are not frosting, but the fountainhead of human expirience?" Rollo May

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill

When asked “What thing about humanity surprises you the most?”, the Dalai Lama answered:

“Man…. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." — Dalai Lama XIV

A nation of sheep will get a government of wolves. -Edward R. Murrow

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly,
But rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~Maya Angelou

The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out. ~Author Unknown

If life gives you melons...
You may be dyslexic.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world. -Jack Gilbert (poet)

A CEO, union worker and tea party member are all sitting around a table with a plate of 12 cookies. The CEO leans over and takes 11 cookies, then leans to the tea party member and warns him the union worker wants part of his cookie.

‎"We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking." - Richard Rohr

My Antique Store Find!!

"Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God." -George MacDonald

"There is only one country: the earth. There is only one people: humanity. There is only one religion: love." - Erasmus

Nancie Atwell says, "Reading
is like breathing chocolate air."

”We are what we read,” and inversely, “We are what we don’t read.” ~~Kelly Gallagher

“If you could kick the person responsible for most of your troubles, you wouldn’t be able to sit down for weeks.” – Author Unknown

It is hard to reason a person out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into in the first place.-unknown

"True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude towards others does not change even if they behave negatively." ~Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. ~Erma Bombeck~

Very inspiring sermon on TV--BTW I don't watch sermons on TV ususally. The gist of it is that if a person is in front of you who is very thirsty, you give them a cup of cold water. You don't try to change how they think, or live, or anything else. Just give them the water. I hope I do that in my classroom every day.

If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." Mary Engelbreit

"In the final analysis it's between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway." Mother Theresa

I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam." annie dillard

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

~Mother Teresa

We must change in order to survive.--Pearl Bailey

‎"Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel."
----author unknown

‎"The transforming moment in Christian conversion comes when we realize that even God has left us. We then discover that it was not God, but our image of God, that abandoned us. This frees us to discover more of the mystery of God than we knew. Only then is change possible." - M. Craig Barnes

Desserts spelled backwards is "stressed".

‎"So, this policy of torture and abuse, what it did is it
helped al-Qaeda recruit, it lowered our moral standing in
the world, it sacrificed our principles, and ultimately it
cost us more time to find binLaden, and it will take us
longer to defeat violent extremism."

Matthew Alexander, former senior military interrogator in Iraq

He who feels he is too small to make a difference has never been bitten by a mosquito.--unknown

The Wise Old Owl

A Wise Old Owl sat in an oak
The more he heard; the less he spoke.
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Why aren't we all like that Wise Old Bird?

My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Conley, used to say this all the time.

‎"No sense being a pessimist. It wouldn't work anyway." - from Life is good.®

My favorite part of the Bible is when Jesus gives money to the rich, tells the poor to suck it up, and asks to see Caesar's birth certificate. (thanks, Sydney)

The Mexican Fisherman


Author Unknown

The American investment banker was at the pier of a
small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with
just one fisherman docked.

Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna.
The American complimented the Mexican on the quality
of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

The American then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer
and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support
my family's needs."

The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of
your time?"

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play
with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into
the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my
amigos, I have a full and busy life."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You
should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a
bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy
several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing
boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would
sell directly to the
processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control
the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave
this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then
Los Angeles and eventually New York where you will run your ever-
expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then?" asked the Mexican.

The American laughed and said that's the best part. "When the
time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company
stock to the public and become very rich, you would make
millions."

"Millions?...Then what?"

The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small
coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a
little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll
to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play
your guitar with your amigos."

We were born rich. Ann Richards’ famous description of George Bush Sr. as an individual is equally applicable to the United States as a whole, “He was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Saint Augustine

‎"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."--Swedish proverb

Only here can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Nukes, Pro-Guns, Pro-Land Mines, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs & Pro-Torture but still call yourself 'Pro-Life.' (via John Fugelsang)

‎"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
------unknown

‎~ Forever is composed of nows ~

‎"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR

One of the easiest ways to enjoy greater peace is by making the choice to let other people walk their own paths rather than engaging
in their problems.
~ Karen Casey

I am not overweight, I am chocolate enriched!

‎"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives."
-----unkown author

“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we
can live as many more lives and as many kinds as we wish.”

~~S. I. Hayakawa

Leadership has been defined as the ability to hide your panic from others.--unknown

"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."--Albert Einstein

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.--unknown

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.~ Sir Winston Churchill

Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. -- The XIVth Dalai Lama

"Perhaps the greatest barrier to Christ has been Christians who pronounce Jesus so loudly with their lips and deny him so loudly with their lives." ~Shane Claiborne~

If president Obama came out in favor of oxygen, the republicans would suffocate themselves.--unknown

‎" Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance."
----------anon.

Talking with quiet confidence will always beat screaming with obvious insecurity.

I’ve also realized that how we feed our bodies and souls is usually an indication of what we think of ourselves. --unknown

“On a bad day, I have mood swings - but on a good day, I have the whole mood playground.” ~Charles Rosenblum

I’m still hot…it just comes in flashes.

"I can teach you how to be a teacher, but I cannot teach
you how to care."---Anthony Smith, principal who turned
around Taft School

‎"Optimists think the glass is half full. Pessimists think the glass is half empty. Realists know that someone will have to wash the glass."
---------unknown source

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.--unknown

‎"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it."--Lily Tomlin

I am a TEACHER---

I am a threat.

I apparently have hurt the nation in ways that everyone
seems to think are irreparable.

I tried my hardest, but was still criticized.

It is my fault for whatever goes wrong. No mater who
commits the act.

My spokesmen are considered evil, greedy, and responsible
for the system failure.

We MUST make sacrifices, while those on Wall Street do not
have to after taking tax payers money and destroying the
economy.

I came to work everyday, worked my heart out, but was still
called a failure.

I signed a contract for certain benefits, monetary
compensation, and a pay increase after fulfilling certain
requirements, but they took them from me anyway.

I MUST work with a client that no one else wants to.
Everyday.

I am screamed at by someone who is not in my profession
when my client does not produce.

My bosses side with those who are not in my profession
ninety-five percent of the time.

I am paid on average 50000 a year. In most places the
average is more like 35000-40000 a year.

I receive benefits, but now they are too expensive. On a
salary of 50000 a year I will now pay an average 5000 more
before I get my check. I now only make 45000 a year. But
wait, my house payment is based on 50000 a year… Isn’t that
the same argument Wall Street execs used?... I need to suck
it up.

Those that are thinking about my entering my profession
probably won’t. Not after you cut my pay, cut my benefits,
and take away all the perks. If they do they will be gone
after five years…

When I am successful in my job I make the same amount of
money someone who is not good at their job makes.

There are no bonuses for me. Ever.

Technology is more important to my job than people. Our
clients are people who need people.

I am not given enough time during the work day to complete
my work. I am only a salaried employee. I stay after my
scheduled time almost everyday for one reason or another.

My time and my life are not important.

I did a job no one else wanted to do.

I acted as a psychologist when a client had a problem.

I acted as a social worker when my client was being abused
or neglected.

I acted as divorce lawyer when two of my clients had a
dispute.

I MUST continuously strive to be better for my clients by
continuing my education. In most places, I am not
compensated for this upkeep. If I don’t I lose my job.

I must pay someone to tell everyone else that I am able to
do my job.

I am there for my clients when everyone else has given up
on them.

It is my ultimate responsibility to make sure my clients
succeed after they leave my office. If they fail I am held
accountable.

Once the economy becomes stable, I will be one of the last
ones to receive a pay increase and even then I won’t come
even close to the raises given in the Private sector.


Why would anyone want this job?

I wanted this job to make a difference and change the
world.

I wanted to be a teacher.
I can’t take it…

I only wanted to help.



That’s just what we do…

If you know a teacher or you feel the same way, pass this
along. Remember friends you do make that difference. Don’t
give up because the world has lost its head! --author unknown

A conservative says: "If this hasn't happened to me then I don't care." A liberal says: "This should never happen to anyone that's why I care." -Sydney

"Consider the lighthouse. It stands on the shore with a beckoning light, guiding ships safely into harbor. The ship can't uproot itself, wade out into the water, grab the ship by the stern and say, "Listen you fool, if you stay on this path you may break up on the rocks.

No, the ship has some responsibility for it's own destiny. It can choose to be guided by the lighthouse. Or it can go it's own way. The lighthouse is not responsible for the ship's decisions. All it can do is be the best lighthouse it can be."

--"Stop Walking on Eggshells" by Mason and Kreger

"Consider the lighthouse. It stands on the shore with a beckoning light, guiding ships

When dealing with difficult people you can "act like a sponge or you can act like a mirror".--

When dealing with difficult people you can "act like a sponge or you can act like a mirror".--"Stop Walking on Eggshells" by Mason and Kreger

"Billy Graham once said, "Preach the Gospel at all times, and when neccessary, use words."

‎"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."--Voltaire

‎"The secret conversations you hold in the privacy of your own mind are shaping your destiny, little by little. ... What you persistently think eventually about inevitably crystallizes into the words you speak and then the things you do." Tommy Newberry, from The 4:8 Principle

“You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ~Anne Lamott

The Blueberry Story

THE BLUEBERRY STORY

A Businessman Learns a Lesson by Jamie Robert Vollmer

"If I ran my business the way you people operate your
schools, I wouldn't be in business very long!" I stood
before an auditorium filled with outraged teachers who were
becoming angrier by the minute. My speech had entirely
consumed their precious 90 minutes of in-service. Their
initial icy glares had turned to restless agitation. You
could cut the hostility with a knife.

I represented a group of business people dedicated to
improving public schools. I was an executive at an ice
cream company that became famous in the middle 1980s when
People Magazine chose our blueberry as the "Best Ice Cream
in America."

I was convinced of two things. First, public schools needed
to change; they were archaic selecting and sorting
mechanisms designed for the industrial age and out of step
with the needs of our emerging "knowledge society." Second,
educators were a major part of the problem: they resisted
change, hunkered down in their feathered nests, protected
by tenure and shielded by a bureaucratic monopoly.

They needed to look to business. We knew how to produce
quality. Zero defects! TQM! Continuous improvement! In
retrospect, the speech was perfectly balanced -- equal
parts ignorance and arrogance.

As soon as I finished, a woman's hand shot up. She appeared
polite, pleasant -- she was, in fact, a razor-edged,
veteran, high school English teacher who had been waiting
to unload.

She began quietly, "We are told, sir, that you manage a
company that makes good ice cream." I smugly
replied , "Best ice cream in America, Ma'am."

"How nice," she said. "Is it rich and smooth?"

"Sixteen percent butterfat," I crowed.

"Premium ingredients?" she inquired.

"Super-premium! Nothing but triple A." I was on a roll. I
never saw the next line coming.

"Mr. Vollmer," she said, leaning forward with a wicked
eyebrow raised to the sky, "when you are standing on your
receiving dock and you see an inferior shipment of
blueberries arrive, what do you do?"

In the silence of that room, I could hear the trap snap. I
was dead meat, but I wasn't going to lie. "I send them
back."

"That's right!" she barked, "and we can never send back our
blueberries. We take them big, small, rich, poor, gifted,
exceptional, abused, frightened, confident, homeless, rude,
and brilliant.

We take them all: GT, ADHD, ADD, SLD, EI, MMR, OHI, TBI,
DD, Autistic, junior rheumatoid arthritis, English as their
second language, etc. We take them all! Everyone! And that,
Mr. Vollmer, is why it's not a business. It's school!"

In an explosion, all 290 teachers, principals, bus drivers,
aides, custodians and secretaries jumped to their feet and
yelled, "Yeah! Blueberries! Blueberries!"

And so began my long transformation. Since then, I have
visited hundreds of schools. I have learned that a school
is not a business. Schools are unable to control the
quality of their raw material, they are dependent upon the
vagaries of politics for a reliable revenue stream, and
they are constantly mauled by a howling horde of disparate,
competing customer groups that would send the best CEO
screaming into the night.

None of this negates the need for change. We must change
what, when, and how we teach to give all children maximum
opportunity to thrive in a postindustrial society. But
educators cannot do this alone; these changes can occur
only with the understanding, trust, permission and active
support of the surrounding community. For the most
important thing I have learned is that schools reflect the
attitudes, beliefs and health of the communities they
serve, and therefore, to improve public education means
more than changing our schools, it means changing America.

"What we see depends on mainly what we look for."--unknown

‎"It's not enough to just fix the problem. You have to fix the source of the problem. That's why any good dentist doesn't just fill your cavity, he hunts down and strangles Willy Wonka." -- Stephen Colbert

"Makeup is not beauty. Death does not mean you lost. Fear is not a lack of faith. True strength can not be taken away. You cannot choose your miracles. Faith can't always cure you. Death is not an end. And you can never say I love you too many times! How can we not believe in miracles? Your life, your light, your fight, your faith, your hope, your happiness, your beauty, your battle, was all too great to seem real. It was a miracle that someone so amazing could be in my life, could love me. You have changed my life forever, I will never forget your faith." --unknown

We have the choice to use the gift of our lives to better this world.-- Jane Goodall

This says it all---

http://wiselivingblog.com/2011/02/debunking-the-whole-life-purpose-thing/

A gift of twenty-four unlived, unexplored hours.
And if I can stack one good day on another and another,
I will link together a good life.....(by Cat Cuipa who was my 8th grader 3 decades ago).

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?--Abraham Lincoln

Sometimes things don't go after all,
from bad to worse. Some years muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives;the crops don't fail,
sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war;
elect an honest man; decide they care
enough, that they can't leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best efforts do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen: may it happen for you.

Sheena Pugh (b.1950)

‎"It's not a good idea to be well adjusted to a sick society." ~ Krisnamurti

Beautiful memorial to Don Loomer this afternoon. On the way home I told my FIL I wished I could have the consuming faith that some of the older people have, and he smiled and said, "It will grow on you. Don't worry about it"--As always he is very wise.

Most humorous line heard this week: A member of a committee reacting to the long debate over an inconsequential matter said: "Friends, we have just had the labor pains of an elephant and given birth to a mouse."--unknown

‎"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate" ~ Carl Jung

"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different." --Oprah

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
Dr. Carl Gustav Jung

Autobiography In Five Short Chapters

Chapter I

I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am hopeless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

Chapter II

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in this same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter III

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it there.
I still fall in... it's a habit... but,
my eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.

Chapter IV

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

Chapter V

I walk down another street.

- Portia Nelson

Truth

The truth you resist is the battle you fight.-unknown

America

"When you grow up in middle America you are inculcated from the earliest age with the belief - no, the understanding - that America is the richest and most powerful nation on earth because God likes us best. It has the most perfect form of government, the most exciting sporting events, the tastiest food and amplest portions, the largest cars, the cheapest gasoline, the most abundant natural resources, the most productive farms, the most devastating nuclear arsenal and the friendliest, most decent and most patriotic folks on Earth. Countries just don't come any better. So why anyone would want to live anywhere else is practically incomprehensible. In a foreigner it is puzzling; in a native it is seditious. I used to feel this way myself." - Bill Bryson

Prayer

Prayer is the practice of sitting calmly in God's lap and placing our hands on his steering wheel - Max Lucado

Courage

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day, saying. ..’I will try again tomorrow.’" Unknown

Time

‎"Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted." -- John Lennon

Locks

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. ~Elayne Boosler

All Mankind

"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." - Thomas Paine

No Right to Kill

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder" - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Seen on a Bumper Sticker Today

"How can one be against Universal Healthcare and be pro-life?"

Joy and Sorrow

‎"Joy and sorrow are inseparable....together they come and when one sits alone with you....remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
--kahil gibran

My Target Find

Might go in my crafting room or maybe somewhere else, but I have wanted one of these for a long time. Should arrive next week! Perfect for the mother of a librarian, don't you think?

Happiness

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim

A Nation That Continues

‎"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom." Martin Luther King, Jr.

This is America

"This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President." Mark Shields, PBS

I Was Hungry

‎"I was hungry, and you formed a humanities club to discuss it. I was imprisoned, but you complained about the crime rate. I was naked, and you debated the morality of my appearance. I was sick, and you thanked God for your health. I was homeless, and you preached to me about the shelter of God’s love. You seem so holy, so close to God, but I’m still very hungry, lonely & cold." -unknown