in the phrasing.

walk a mile.

between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
{iris murdoch}

precious.

time is free, but it's priceless. you can't own it, but you can use it. you can't keep it, but you can spend it. once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
{harvey mackay}

fizz.

sodium bicarbonate, which first hit the mass market in 1846 when dr. austin church and john dwight began selling their red-labeled soda packages, also is famous for neutralizing odoriferous fatty acids, and attacking grease by turning it into - believe it or not - soap.
{robert wolke}

quack.

be like a duck. calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
{michael caine}

down.

there is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the american people and their leaders.
{alan k. simpson}

spools.

all colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
{marc chagall}

classic.

soda has been referred to as liquid candy, and this is rather apt.
{dr. katz}

tandem.

coming together is a beginning. keeping together is progress. working together is success.
{henry ford}

light.

experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
{louis-ferdinand celine}

tree.

if you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
{hal borland}

french pressed.

he was my cream, and i was his coffee- and when you poured us together, it was something.
{josephine baker}

anchored.

neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
{epictetus}

school.

education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
{albert einstein}

photo by dr.

ticktock.

don't watch the clock; do what it does. keep going.
{sam levenson}

photo by DR.

roadtrip.

the real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes.
{marcel proust}

pink.

almost all words do have color and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.
{gladys taber}

primary colors.

a man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
{frederick douglass}

a barn.

you need to have a home to go back to, whether it's a hotel room or a barn.  it's only home when he's there.
{genevieve gorder}

la bicicletta

nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
{jfk}

photo by dr.

cuppa.

remember the tea kettle- it is always up to its neck in hot water, yet still it sings!
{unknown}

herbs.

better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
{proverbs 15:17}

thread.

i come from that society and there is a common thread, specifically family values- the idea that you do anything for your family, and the unconditional love for one's children.
{ednita nazario}

player piano.

music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
{sergei rachmaninov}

chores.

my second favorite household chore is ironing. my first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until i faint.
{erma bombeck}

wagon.

little by little, one travels far.
{j.r.r. tolkien}

strawberry limeade.

we think fast food is equivalent to pornography, nutritionally speaking.
{steve elbert}

the barn, 10.4.09

pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
{henry david thoreau}

friends.

span.

faith- is the pierless bridge
supporting what we see
unto the scene that we do not-
{emily dickinson}

photo by DR.

flair.

oh, never mind the fashion. when one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
{margaret oliphant}

where to?

the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
{St. Augustine}

march.

everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time.
{steven wright}

 

attitude: happy.

the remarkable thing we have is a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  we cannot change our past...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  we cannot change the inevitable.  the only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
{charles swindoll}

squish.

love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends.
{unknown}

sit.

we are the music makers,
and we are the dreamer of dreams,
wandering by lone sea-breakers,
and sitting by desolate streams;
world-losers and world-forsakers,
on whom the pale moon gleams:
yet we are the movers and shakers
of the world forever, it seems.

{william edgar o'shaughnessy}

force of nature.

and now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

{1 Corinthians 13:13}

red chair.

he that will not reflect is a ruined man.

{asian proverb}

minute moments.

the happiness of life is made up of minute fractions- the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.

{samuel taylor coleridge}

  

the barn, 9.13.09

when you come to a fork in the road, take it.

{yogi berra}