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

To My Dear Friends

(who probably don't know this blog exists or read it)

Say whatever you have to say, I'll stand by you.
Do whatever you have to do, to get it out and not become a reaction memory
To hurt the ones you love, you know you never meant to but you do
Oh yeah you do.

Be whoever you have to be, I won't judge you.
Sing whatever you have to sing to get it out and not be come a reclues about how to come out.
I know you never meant to but you do.
Oh but you do.

Still I need your sway, because you always pay for it.
And I, and I need your soul because you're always soulful.
And I, and I need your heart, because you're always in the right places.

And take whatever you have to take, you know I love you.
Come however you have to come, and get it out and get it out.

Take it out on me, take it out on me.
I'll give it you all, I give it you all.
I give you all, I give it you all, yes, I will give it you all.

'Cause I need your sway, because you always pay for it.
And I, and I need your soul because you're always soulful.
And I, and I need your heart, because you're always in the right places...

Lyrics of "Sway" by the Kooks from their album Konk.

"Correct" English

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
--Clarence Darrow