"If Candlemas Day be fair and bright; Come Winter, have another flight. If Candlemas brings clouds and rain; go wit and come not again." -- medieval English proverb
Word is that Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of Winter, at least in Pennsylvania.  I haven't yet heard what New Mexican prairie dogs have to say on the subject.  Much ( Read more... )

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

-Doug Larson

Famous quites from famous (or not) people can be interpreted in lots of ways, I'm reminded myself as I mull over a completely different one.  But these spoke to me, this morning:

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."

and

"There is nothing more galling to angry people than ( Read more... )

http://esoterica.bichaunt.org/

The second item under "Practical Matters" includes much information that may be useful under a variety of circumstances. 

I had already learned from more than a decade of political
life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did,
so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
- Rosalynn Carter

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens
to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to
the same person?
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
-Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
-Dennis Potter, dramatist (1935-1994)

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
-Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you
refuse to hate him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)