There and Back Again

Pondering: People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. (Frederick Douglass)
A new year is once again upon us. There is trouble brewing in the horizon but the world still looks forward to a new year, a new start. It’s a new [...]

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Pondering: Dear Lord… The gods have been good to me. For the first time in my life, everything is absolutely perfect just the way it is. So here’s the deal: You freeze everything the way it is, and I won’t ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. OK, [...]

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Pondering: When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
In a few hours another Christmas celebration has come and gone. At [...]

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Pondering: When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. (Lao Tzu)
A feeling of elation washed over me today during my early morning walk. It was foggy when I set off for my four-mile walk. I could hardly see anything or anyone. The cool [...]

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Pondering: My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. (Woody Allen)
…I looked like this.

Those were the days. Gone is the innocence, I think though I am still as hopeful. This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the many years of good health and reasons to smile.

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Pondering: Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. (Walt Whitman)
My sister told me today, that some folks in my office - she won’t name who - think that I am rude and abrupt. [...]

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Pondering: My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been. (Diane Arbus)
I have grown an affinity for the following things, of late (in no particular order):

Mauna Loa chocolates
CBS’s Criminal Minds
Little Britain - USA
Anton Corbin’s movie, Control, which tells the tragic story of Ian Curtis, lead singer of the English band Joy Division
Ian McEwan books
Minnesota [...]

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Pondering: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. (Stephen Hawking)
I was browsing one day and chanced upon this one. If I were giving out awards for CD sleeves - this one gets [...]

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Pondering: It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. (Barack Obama)
Whether you voted for him or not or believe he can bring change or not; whether you are a Republican, Green Party or a doubting Democrat; whether you have good things to [...]

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Pondering: Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. (Wally Amos)
This beautiful, beautiful song from the new Keane album, Perfect Symmetry moves me so much, I can’t explain it. It brings tears to my eyes for many different reasons. I am posting the [...]

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