On the road again

Today is a travel day.  I'll catch up again when we land.  In the meantime, here are a few (quite a few) of my favorite quotes.  Entertain yourselves.

Nobody looks back on life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. ~Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

When in danger and in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. ~Jim Anderson, Father Knows Best

Who were you before the world told you who you were?

Two roads diverged in the middle of my life.  I heard a man say I took the road less traveled by.  And that's made the difference, every night and every day. ~Larry Norman (with apologies to Robert Frost)

The soul is healed by being with children. ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm looking at the laughter lines on my face and wondering what the hell was that funny?

After you've done all you can, just stand.

Shut up and deal with it or move on. ~Greg Andres

Blah, blah, blah. ~Austin Andres

I reject politically oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.

You don't want me.  I'm full of scotch, bitterness, and impure thoughts.

She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess.  Loving her is a splendid adventure. ~Steve Maraboli

No need to hurry.  No need to sparkle.  No need to be anybody but oneself. ~Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you. ~Rashi

Sweetheart, you're a star.  Never apologize for burning too bright. ~Rupi Kaur

Secondhand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ~Virginia Woolf

The past is not what happened, it's what you remember happened.  What was, was, and what happened, happened. ~Edwin Honig

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away. ~Virginia Woolf

It's really colorful in here; I invite you in. ~Marty Stuart

Nothing is louder than overthinking after midnight. ~Rupi Kaur

People who are very happy do not stay long anywhere.  They spread themselves thin and leave a piece of themselves in each one of us.

We have no more right to put our discordant state of mind into the lives of others and rob them of their sunshine than we have to enter their house and steal their silverware. ~Julia Seton Sears

Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory. ~G. Behn

If there was a little more silence, if we all kept quiet, maybe we could understand something. ~Federico Fellini

You know you're too fat when you catch the neighbor kids using your belt as a jump rope. ~Terry Dunkle

And three from my favorite bear, Winnie the Pooh:

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Rivers know this:  There is no hurry.  We shall get there some day.

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient.  It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.


Shout out to L in Michigan. Picked one of your cukes last night and am enjoying it on my sandwich today. Yum!!


On the stereo: The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle be Unbroken
(Okay, okay.  I'm behind the times, this came out in 1977.  It is the best collection of Bluegrass ever!)