Quotes of the day

"Am I alive or thoughts that drift away? Does summer come for everyone? Can humans do what prophets say? And if I die before I learn to speak can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?"
  --Chris O'Connor

"The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into ... nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever."
   --Booth Tarkington

"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
  --  Anais Nin

5:22:41 PM     

There But For Fortune

It's been a lazy cold Saturday, and I've had no motivation for routine weekend domestic chores.  The rooms in my home glare back at me with silent indignation at the thought of having to wear their untidiness like week-old underwear for yet another day. 

A kitten in my lap, the sounds of Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Simon & Garfunkel rising from Scott's laptop behind me; amidst yawns and stretches, full bellies and quiet contentment comes the irresistible desire to close my eyes and drift to sleep.

We listened to the peace protesters as they made their speeches in the bitter cold of Washington, D.C.  I keep hearing Jessica Lange's voice in my head and other louder voices repeating words once spoken by Martin Luther King.  Impassioned people making impassioned pleas for peace.  And at home we play Woodstock music downloaded to a laptop from a place called the internet. 

Show me a prison, show me a jail
Show me a prisoner whose face is growing pale
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
And there but for fortune
May go you or I

Show me an alley, show me a train
Show me a hobo who sleeps out in the rain
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
And there but for fortune
May go you or I

Show me the whiskey stains on the floor
Show me a drunken man as he stumbles out the door
And I'll show you a young man with many reasons why
And there but for fortune
May go you or I

Show me the country where the bombs had to fall
Show me the ruins of the buildings once so tall
And I'll show you a young land with so many reasons why
And there but for fortune
May go you or I -- or I

3:35:09 PM     

Biltmore Estate

1:35:17 PM     

Yummy recipes

A yummy collection of easy recipes at Anywhere But In The Kitchen which features a today's menu, recipes for kids, and cooking with 5 or less ingredients.  Maybe I'm just hungry, but these look wonderful! 

1:15:09 PM     

Emergency Email Network

Get notified of an emergency by email, cell phone or pager.  Includes weather, homeland security, local emergency management and health alerts.  The Emergency Email Network's mission is to "provide notification to citizens of local, regional, national and international emergencies utilizing the Internet and electronic mail (email) in a secure and expedient manner."  This free service also issues Amber alerts for missing children.  Signing up was easy - just enter your email address and location.  There is an opt-out for mail sent out by the site's "sponsors".     via....The Presurfer

8:35:22 AM