Parents are People Too!

"When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years."
-- Mark Twain

I'm not quite 21, but I do appreciate my parents a lot more today than I did 7 years ago, even 7 months ago. That's a nice feeling.

What You Shall Do

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants... have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.

-- Walt Whitman

I love Postsecret

Who do you pray to?

-- A postcard from Postsecret

Success

I'm in need of some words of encouragement...

Here they are; I hope they encourage you, too.

Success is the sum of small efforts; repeated day in and day out.
--Robert Collier

From two great English authors

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

-- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
-- William Shakespeare