Monthly Archives: November 2010

A Gift The holidays are times for us to reflect and to step back from our busy lives; to concentrate on what is truly meaningful in life. The exchange of gifts has become a tradition and for some it has been … Continue reading →

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious. Letitia Landon Hmmmm….I find I dislike that which annoys me. Why does someone or something annoy me? Interesting question…One I have … Continue reading →

When I lose my ability to communicate with another, I have cut off all avenues to understanding and when that happens I lose them entirely. My greatest loss is my loss of communication with one I had just begun to … Continue reading →

Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.~ Marcel Proust I look out upon my world with new eyes….eyes sharpened with new knowledge. The landscape may not have changed but my preception of what surrounds me … Continue reading →

The water on the Bay this morning was so calm; it gleamed clear as a mirror, allowing me the rare opportunity for serious self-reflection…. Self-reflection at the beginning of this week is good, as my final days approach. I saw … Continue reading →

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.       – Benjamin Franklin I am as speckled as the trout in the poem, Pied Beauty.  I wear little makeup and what I do wear, I hope, enhances rather than conceals. You, … Continue reading →

The key to your universe is that you can choose. Author: Carl Frederick The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. Author: John Dewey It’s choice – not chance – that determines your destiny. Author: Jean … Continue reading →

To be great is to be misunderstood.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803–1882) Calvin: I’m a genius, but I’m a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What’s misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I’m a genius.   Well now, … Continue reading →

  The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. R. G. Collingwood History is a means of access to ourselves. Lynn White, Jr. What man is, only his history tells. … Continue reading →

Don’t ever give up on something or someone that you can’t go a full day without thinking about.” It has never been my nature to give up. Perhaps that is why I am so annoying sometimes….I even annoy myself…but persistence … Continue reading →