“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos
Tag: Quote
Jan 07
December 2015 – Quote of the Month
“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.” ~Thomas Paine
Dec 02
November 2015 – Quote of the Month
“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” ~Sir Richard Burton
Nov 04
October 2015 – Quote of the Month
“Now everyone dreams of a love lasting and true But you and I know what this world can do So let’s make our steps clear that the other may see And I’ll wait for you If I should fall behind Wait for me” ~Bruce Springsteen
Oct 06
September 2015 – Quote of the Month
“I don’t think the American Dream was that everyone was going to make it or that everyone was going to make a billion dollars, but it was that everyone was going to have an opportunity and the chance to live a life with some decency and a chance for some self-respect.” ~Bruce Springsteen (as captured …
Sep 28
An Absolute Monarchy in the Minds of Men
For all of the humanistic conventions and relative progressiveness of Pope Francis*, that is enchanting the people; here, at the bedrock is what continues to disturb me: the fostering of supernatural, magical beliefs. If the disservice and damage that this magical mindset does among the everyday individual is disturbing enough, it is downright scary when …
Sep 03
August 2015 – Quote of the Month
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Aug 02
July 2015 – Quote of the Month
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ~ Bertrand Russell
Jun 04
May 2015 – Quote of the Month
Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May, but at length the season of summer does come. ~Thomas Carlyle
May 02
April 2015 – Quote of the Month
It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ~Agatha Christie
Apr 04
March 2015 – Quote of the Month
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~ Hal Borland
Mar 02
February 2015 – Quote of the Month
Of winter’s lifeless world each tree Now seems a perfect part; Yet each one holds summer’s secret Deep down within its heart. ~ Charles G. Slater
Feb 21
January 2015 – Quote of the Month
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it. ~ John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday
Jan 24
December 2014 – Quote of the Month
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
Jan 12
November 2014 – Quote of the Month
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its …
Dec 30
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Whereas others have decorated their house for the winter holidays – namely, christmas, we’ve kept the arachnid Halloween decorations up in our entryway – Cirith Ungol (Sindarin for Spider’s Cleft, or Pass of the Spider). All Photos by Yours Truly – Glen Green. Click on images to see larger versions. In a ravine she lived, …
Nov 17
October 2014 – Quote of the Month
There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch. ~Robert Brault
Oct 06
September 2014 – Quote of the Month
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. ~ Bertrand Russell
Sep 08
August 2014 – Quote of the Month
It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. ~ Naguib Mahfouz
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