Being a chronic worrier is something I could do without; and recently I came upon this quote, a perfect one for a worry wart like me:

“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which have happened.”

Mark Twain

So now I will not really worry about upcoming tests; I will just say ( Read more... )

For quite some time, an email friend has been ending his emails with this quote:

"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened"

and I have wondered whose words they were, as there was no author mentioned, so this morning, instead of 
wondering, I went to Internet and typed in "Until one has loved an animal...." and the author, ( Read more... )

On Religious Intolerance

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

-- Daniel J. Boorstin

“to err is human, to forgive divine”; words I just sent to my dear friend who invited me to their house to watch the Super Bowl. I believed the weather report, and declined the invitation; she so kindly brought me some of the goodies she made for us to snack on and restored my wine, (that I whined was “all gone” from yesterday!), and now, an hour ( Read more... )

Stretching before us a brand new year, and if we choose, a new beginning. For me it will be mostly business as usual, tending to, wishing, hoping and dreaming. These are things I do best.

Hope is for staying healthy; hope for some common sense to return to our Congressmen and women, which seems just wishful thinking.

Hope for my friends all remain ( Read more... )

This was bestowed on yours truly by The Cutter Bee Society of Wasta.  Recently there was some work done on the siding on my house, and I changed doorbells and installed a remote control doorbell. It had been at my front door and I changed to the entry and when I was putting the holder by the door, I noticed something that looked rather strange in ( Read more... )

In a full blown South Dakota blizzard; the first in all my years I can remember on Christmas Day. I was invited to a nearby town and when I pulled up the blinds this morning, it was a real blizzard, and I knew I was not going any place today. Shortly after my neighbor called and said, can we bring dinner over this afternoon, and I said sure, and we ( Read more... )

2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS

And A

HAPPY NEW YEAR

FROM FAYZEE IN SOUTH DAKOTA

The adventures of 2009 have been some of the usual activities yours truly enjoys; trips to the cabin among the highlights, visits from friends, most enjoyable, drives to the Black Hills with friends, and for the most part, this old woman stays fairly healthy. Toting the SOB ( Read more... )

This has always been a favorite of mine and I left it as a comment in one of my friends posts.

I am very much like Ms Ferber, and 
old as I am, I still run like hell from those very feminine women and the two fisted men.

Edna Ferber in A Kind of Magic

Women are women and men are men and viva la’difference! But for me

there is no greater bore that a ( Read more... )

I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever ( Read more... )