Year: 2005
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Success
It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.Joseph Ross
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Unexpected arrival
A man appears before St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.“Have you ever done anything of particular merit?” St. Peter asks.“Well, I can think of one thing,” the man offers.“Once, on a trip to the Black Hills, out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of high testosterone bikers who were threatening a young woman. …
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Seventh Level of Hell
The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished me to the Seventh Level of Hell! DAMN! Only two more to go!
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Wabi-sabi
A catchall term for a 16th century Japanese discipline that combines the notions of wabi (things that are simple or humble) and sabi (things that gain beauty from age).Wabi-sabi in the home, according to Lawrence [The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence], is “flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo;…