Tending to Love

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. ~Ursula K. Le Guin

A Happy and Safe New Year's Eve to All! ~GZ

Character

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~Abigail Van Buren

Gerald R. Ford

The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time? ~Gerald R. Ford

Godfather of Soul

I hope you live 200 years, and that I live 200 years minus one day, so I never know beautiful people like you passed away.
~James Brown

Winter Hope

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happy Holidays to All! ~GZ

Dance is for Everybody

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. ~Alvin Ailey

Hunger

A hungry man is not a free man. ~Adlai Stevenson

Windstorm

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather

Footnote: This is a tree that fell outside my office during the PNW Storm that hit late Dec. 14th. I was one of the lucky ones who had power. Many people I know are still without it.

Be Understanding

Be understanding of one another. Be willing to compromise. ~Yoko Ono

Fragile

The beast in me is caged by frail and fragile bars. ~Johnny Cash

Improvisation

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. ~Ken Burns

Poor Sex Life?

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. ~Joan Rivers

War - a Winner?

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. ~Agatha Christie

Marriage Brimming

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
~Ogden Nash

His name is 'Today'

We are guilty of many errors and many faults but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer 'Tomorrow.' His name is 'Today’. ~Gabriela Mistral

Hammering

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. ~Abraham Maslow

Speak Your Mind

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them. ~Afrika Bambaataa

Loving

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Leonard P. Matlovich

Asunder

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ~Virginia Woolf

Put into Practice

Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice. ~Buddha