Month: January 2010

  • Children

    They seem so little, yet grow so fast.The moments now will soon be past.Enjoy them now before you know; she will be grown.  That’s how it goes.Something I must have written in a card to go with a baby present to someone.  Found it on a piece of scrap paper when cleaning out my files…

  • Attempt

    Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.Seneca

  • Promises

    Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree – they bear no fruit.Frances Marion

  • Talent

    If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible.  Don’t hoard it.  Don’t dole it out like a miser.  Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.Brendan Francis

  • Losing a Battle

    Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Snow Spell

    I thought that this was much better than the anti spell: Rain, Rain, go away, come again some other day…Ice cube, ice cube in the pot.Gee.  I hope it snows a lot!Pull the handle, down it goes.May it bring us piles of snows!Harken to me bathroom plumbing!Let there be a snowstorm coming!Winter weather hear my…

  • In death, or earlier?

    Suffering is a journey which has an end.Matthew Fox