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Day 183/365
July 2
FGR--Can I Quote You On That? ...with quotes and borders
I found this quote here.
I also considered the following quotes:
"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." — Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
and "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." — Frederick Douglass
TRP--Brown/Beige
July's Alphabet Soup--B is for brown, beige, and books
Today I took both of my girls to the library. I dressed us all in brown or beige, but Elizabeth was too busy playing with the puppets to participate in our picture!
I love, love, love that both of my girls love books as much as I do!
Nick Fury week is almost over. But I have a few more shots to post.
The last stand, as earths mightiest hero's face the Skrull Queen. In the final battle in Central Park
Skrull Queen; We are here to save you. And we're here because in spite of all that you've done to our empire...He loves you
Spider-Man; uh...he who?
Skrull Queen; God
Nick Fury; Yeah? Well my God has a HAMMER!
Avengers Assemble! and with that the final Battle takes place.
Mystery Minis are a crapshoot. One day you get The Beast and all is good. The next you get Cyclops and are like, 'eh, at least it's a solid figure.' Then you get a third mini to complete the 'gram and it's Sabertooth. Not you're favorite character and the figure won't stand on its own.
At least he's a villain. I need more villains.
I grabbed the quote from a YouTube search. It's from the 90s X-Men series. That show was mad melodramatic. It was great!
Project: 3 X-Men Mystery Minis figures. 1 mini photography studio. 10+ years design doodling.
Project goal: Step 3: Profit!!! 💰💰💰💰
other chicken picture in : plus.google.com/100001448954947983372/posts/Fp9xyZywiL8
Chicken Idioms and other Funny Things We Say -
We've been amazed at how many common every-day sayings originated from people who owned and raised chickens. Who would have thought that the lowly chicken was so interwoven into our everyday lives? Below are some of our favorite chicken sayings submitted by our community members. Submit your own chicken saying:
Quotable Chicken Quotes
- “A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.” - Samuel Butler
- “I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday” - Henry IV
- “The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.” - unknown
- "Chicken one day, feathers the next” - unknown
- “We can see a thousand miracles around us every day. What is more supernatural than an egg yolk turning into a chicken?” - S. Parkes Cadman
- "Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets” - Henry Ford
- "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” - Chuck Palahniuk
- "Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.” - Lemuel K. Washburn
- "I'll change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!" Dolly Parton's character in 9 to 5 movie
- "Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.” - Frank Lloyd Wright
- "Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor” - Helen Rowland
- "It is better to be the head of chicken than the rear end of an ox” - Japanese Proverb quotes
-"Ain't nobody here but us chickens" - Song lyrics, Louis Jordan
-"The Sky is falling!" - Chicken Little, childrens fable
- "Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken poop from chicken salad.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.”
- "A chicken in every pot" - 1928 Republican Party campaign slogan
- Don't have a pot to put it in - 1928 Democratic Party response slogan
- It's a chicken and egg situation - Which came first?
Talkative Women
"It is said that even the hen reared by a talkative woman crows." - Sinhalese proverb
Hen party - a large gathering of gossiping women
A whistling woman and a crowing hen, Are neither fit for God nor men;"
A whistling woman and a crowing hen are two of the unluckiest things under the sun.
A whistling wife and a crowing hen, Will call the old gentleman out of his den;"
Whistling girls and crowing hens, Always come to some bad end;"
A whistling wife and a crowing hen, Will come to God, but God knows when;"
A whistling girl and a crowing hen can drive the devil out of his den.
A whistling woman and a crowing hen will always come to no good end.
Finance (or putting your cart before your horse )
Nest egg - to save a little money each week
Scratching out a living - to earn enough to get by on
Don't count your chickens before they hatch - don't plan on an outcome before it actually happens.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket - don't plan on an outcome before it actually happens.
Don't spend the egg money before the hen lays the eggs - don't plan on an outcome before it actually happens.
Chicken feed - small amount of money
Feather your nest - saving for the future
Chicken Jokes
What the hen said when she saw the scrambled eggs......my children are all mixed up!
Yolks on you - Jokes on you - play on words
Why'd the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum/armadillo that it CAN be done!
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
Hen Sayings
Hen house - large number of females living in the same house
Mother hen - very protective
Madder than a wet settin' hen - very angry
Fussing like an old hen - angry
Work as hard as a hen hauling wood- hard working
Hen cackle – to laugh
Laid an egg – failed
Feeling like Henny Penny – one person doing all the work
Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow - a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
A hen that struts like a rooster is often invited for dinner - pride goeth before the fall
Scarce as hen's teeth - extremely hard to find
Long long ago, when chickens had teeth - once apon a time
Chick - young girl or teenager
Roosters (get no respect!) Sayings
Hen-pecked - nagged
The rooster may crow but the hen delivers the goods.
The rooster may crow, but this hen lays the egg!
The rooster may rule the roost but the hen rules the rooster.
The rooster makes all the noise, but the hen rules the roost!
Rooster games - willing to fight instead of trying to work out a problem.
Chicken Behavior Descriptions
Flew the coop - gone
Up with the chickens - waking early with the sunrise.
Going to bed with the chickens - going to bed early in the evening.
Walking on eggshells- treading softly where certain people are concerned; trying not to upset someone
Like a chicken with it's head cut off - running around with no direction
Like a head with it's chicken cut off - depressed
Shake a tail feather - get moving
Strutting' your stuff - Showing off
Strutting around like a banty rooster - showing off
Bird brain - senseless
Dumb cluck - senseless
You're chicken! - being afraid
Sunny side up - cheerful attitude
Hard-boiled - tough attitude
Over easy - soft inside
Chicken out - not follow through
That just flaps my wattles - when something annoys you
Ruffle your feathers - something annoys you
Chicken hearted - Not brave
Chickens have come home to roost - the past is catching up with you
No spring chicken - you're old. Plain and simple.
Like a banty on a june bug - all over you
Hatch an idea - put a plan into motion
Egg on your face - caught in an untruth
Put up a squawk - argue over something
Squawking - putting up a fuss
Rule the Roost - to be the boss
Pecking order - finding your place
Cock of the walk - to be the boss
Do chickens have lips? - dumb question gets a dumb answer
Play Chicken - a stand off, who will give first
Something to crow about - exciting news to tell
Brood over it - to worry; to hover over a problem
Chicken scratch - poor handwriting
Stick your neck out - go to bat for someone else
Stuck in your craw - upset about something and won't verbalize what's going on inside you; carrying a grudge.
Cock sure - to brag
Bad egg - less than honest person; poor moral standards
In a stew - got yourself in trouble
Neither chick nor child - a childless and/or petless person
Raise your hackle feathers - visibly annoyed
Cock and bull story - tall tales and elaborate lies
Nesting behavior- preparing a home (especially pregnant women just before a baby is due)
Empty nest syndrome - depression and loneliness when children leave home
Made from scratch - made from raw materials by hand
Making chicken salad out of chicken poop - able to cobble together things without many supplies or efforts
Chickenhawks - politicians who are pro-war but declined to participate themselves
Chicken lights - tractor trailor running lights
Tastes like Chicken - to describe the taste f any number of other meats
Use everything but the crow - use it up and wear it out; made due with what you have.
hatching rooster eggs - wasting time and/or resources
Eggs
Sunny side up - cooked only on the bottom, happy yellow yolk staring at you
Over easy - flipped once and the yolk still runny
Dippy egg - Southern slang; runny yolks (often sunny side up or over easy) for dipping toast.
Hard-boiled
cackleberries - eggs
hen berries - eggs
Scrambled eggs - Gold trim on Naval Officers Dress Hats
Have to break eggs to make an omelet - make a mess to get something done
Not everything it's cracked up to be - disillusion
Don’t cackle if you haven’t laid - don't complain if you haven't finished your part of the effort
Chicken Parts
Pope's nose / parson's nose / dashboard - The chicken butt - the boney protrusion where the oil gland and tail feathers are located.
Cock-eyed - turned or twisted toward one side
feet-n-feathers - the whole thing
QID with "The Expanded Quotable Einstein". Collected and Edited by Alice Calaprice. Irish tea-cozy courtesy of SLA. 2012. Photo by FSK.
One of Australia's largest rainforest trees may be seen in the mid north coast region of New South Wales.
The laser returned a figure of 66.1 metres. (64.4 metres on the screen, 1.7 metres added for the height above the ground at eye level). The tree was measured on the other side of the Wilson River, and the base of the tree was somewhat raised above the river bank.
So the actual figure would be less than this number, by a metre or three. 63 metres tall is a quotable figure for this tree.
I'm dubious of published heights of Australian trees. The scientists are too conservative. And the commercial and tourist publications exaggerate.
These figs are immense; they are giants, leviathans, colossal in the height and breadth. There's one nearly as tall, up at Sheepstation Creek in the Border Ranges.
Scientific publications say this tree may reach 30 metres. Don't you believe it!
Twenty or so years ago I wrote a poem about a giant. In mythology, giants are usually good natured creatures who live a happy solitary life. Often in their cave, and don't use their strength for anything but good.
However, in this case. The giant was being annoyed by a group of goblins. Who made noises, lit fires and were a nuisance.
I read this poem aloud to an audience of literary people. Gave the poem a similar preview, saying the giant is easy going as rule.
When reading the poem I made sure I did so very slowly. Usually I gabble and speak at an intensely quick rate. Which is mostly unintelligible for the average listener.
So, I read it very slowly. There were plenty of pauses, even though it is a short poem.
At the end, the poem got a lot of applause, I was shocked. A couple of people approached me after the reading, saying how horrible it was, and how bloody and disgusting it was. (Saying so in a complimentary way of course).
I had no expectation that it would evoke this reaction.
Anyway, the tree in the photo is a giant. The poem is about a giant. Here it is:
GIANT
they light their fires near my cave
drum and chanting
throwing rocks my way
too small to bother me
until today
I slept and a goblin came near
screaming in my ear
breaking a bad dream
I knocked it with a backhand flip
half my height
but what a bizarre fight!
it kicked and squirmed
a howling shriek
a turmoil of strength
before I ripped off an arm
the stink of black blood
the festering insides
I twisted the head off
hurled it to its mates
so now they know to let me be
don't mess with me
'cause I'm a Giant
I think therefore I was? No, I think there for I think? No, I think there for I forget, wait, I think therefore I.. I ... Lets see, two letters.. I think, therefore I .. Im not sure ...
I am
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
~ Peter Marshall
One of the biggest challenges facing diplomats is problem of being required to frequently change the environment in which they operate and in which they are expected to deliver, explains the Ambassador of India to Georgia and Armenia, Mr. Achal Malhotra.
As the fourth Indian Ambassador to Georgia, Mr. Malhotra presented his credentials to President Saakashvili on December 3, 2009. He is based in Yerevan where he resides, concurrently representing India in Armenia alongside Georgia.
“In Armenia and Georgia… I [am] making my own earnest efforts towards forging closer ties with two out of three countries of the South Caucasus region, which has remained the centre of the international community’s attention for the past several years,” Mr. Malhotra told Georgia Today in an e-mail interview.
Having completed a Masters in Literature from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Tourism Administration, he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1981. He has served at the Indian diplomatic headquarters in New Delhi in addition to diplomatic missions in Moscow, Bonn, Vienna, Sri Lanka and Brunei Darussalam.
He is married to Mrs Anita Malhotra; His son Sahil Malhotra has recently graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE).
Q: Mr. Ambassador, do your impressions of Georgia match your original expectations?
A: It is my endeavor to visit Tbilisi on an average once in a month. Georgia and the Georgians are no strangers for me. I met several Georgians way back in the late 1980s when I was on my first ever overseas assignment in Moscow. The Georgian Restaurant in Moscow was my favorite. I had in the past known Georgians as humorous, unassuming and hospitable persons, and during my recent interactions with them I found them true to my perceptions and expectations.
Q: Diplomatic relations between India and Georgia started in 1992. What dynamics have taken place over these years to advance bilateral ties? What contribution has the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation program (ITEC) and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) made?
A: Bilateral relations between India and Georgia are on the right track. India and Georgia have recently signed three agreements which would raise the level of institutional mechanisms and also promote larger cooperation in the fields of trade & economy, culture and science & technology.
ITEC program and ICCR are two important arms of India’s Development cooperation program and cultural diplomacy respectively. ITEC is a program which has been devised to share India’s accumulated expertise and experience with developing countries in the fields of Human Resource Development and Capacity Building. Every year, the Government of India is offering a certain number of places for Georgian nationals from the Government, and Public and Private sectors to undergo short and medium-term training programs in India in diverse areas of specialization. These Fellowships are fully funded by the Government of India.
The primary objective of the ICCR is to promote cultural interactions with foreign countries. The ICCR inter alia offers scholarships to foreign nationals for undergoing Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses at various Universities in India. Two Georgian nationals have been availed of this opportunity this year. Now that India and Georgia have concluded a Cultural Cooperation Agreement, we expect interaction in this area to grow in the coming years.
Q: How fruitful are economic and business relations? Where are the areas you see untapped potential for development?
A: Bilateral trade between India and Georgia is still minimal and perhaps much below its potential. The “Best of India” Trade Exhibitions being held in Georgia from time to time have proved to be a win-win situation for both India and Georgia. These Exhibitions have helped Indian businessmen in popularizing quality and yet cost-competitive Indian products on the Georgian market; at the same time, these Exhibitions have generated considerable revenue for the Government of Georgia by way of duties and taxes. The Exhibitions also provide temporary employment for Georgian youth and also generate revenue as more than 200 Indian businessmen stay and spend in Georgia for a period of nearly 5-6 weeks a year. More importantly, these events have enhanced people-people contacts between the two countries.
The Indian investments in Georgia at the moment are focused on the metallurgy sector. Energy, particularly small and medium hydropower plants, pharmaceuticals, and the agro-processing industry are some of the areas where the potential remains untapped.
Q: Could you please briefly outline the domestic and foreign policy priorities of India?
A: India is a large country with a population of more than 1.2 bn. Its economy has displayed a great deal of resilience in the wake of the global financial crisis and continues to grow at an impressive rate of around 9%. One of the major challenges is to ensure that the benefits of growth reach each and every segment of society. The priority on the domestic front therefore is to work towards achieving inclusive growth.
On the foreign policy plank, India remains committed to principles such as good neighborliness and peaceful co-existence. It also remains committed to contributing towards the restructuring of the global economic and financial architecture, addressing issues such as global terrorism, climate change etc. Very recently, India has been elected as a Non-Permanent Member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for a period of two years, beginning January 1, 2011. India received 187 out of 192 votes – the highest among all countries standing for elections to the UNSC as Non-Permanent Members.
This resounding endorsement of India’s candidature at the UN serves as a reaffirmation of the overwhelming support that India enjoys in the international community; it also reflects the expectations of the international community from India. During its tenure in the UNSC, India will discharge its obligations as a responsible member of the international community by remaining fully and actively engaged on all issues before the Council. India will also work with other like-minded countries to bring about reforms in the UNSC structure. India’s immediate priorities in the Council would also include peace and stability in India’s near and extended neighborhood including Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa; Counter-Terrorism including preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors and strengthening UN peacekeeping.
Q: In the Soviet times, people in Armenia and Georgia became familiar with the Indian lifestyle and culture mostly through Indian movies. How well does the tourism industry serve this purpose now?
A: Both India and Georgia have much to offer to a prospective Tourist. India has a large upper middle class population with sufficient disposable incomes. More and more Indians are now traveling to foreign destinations to spend their holidays; they are on a lookout for new and attractive destinations. However, the absence of direct or convenient air links between India and Georgia places some limitations. Nevertheless some Georgian Tour Operators have occasionally organized Chartered Flights to Goa, one of the most exotic tourist destinations in India. Recently, Armavia have started direct flights between Yerevan and Delhi and some passengers are known to have used this flight for traveling to Tbilisi via Yerevan. Some concerted efforts in this area can surely lead to the promotion of tourism, both inbound and outbound, between the two countries.
Q: What about your hobbies?
A: I like reading; I read for the purpose of remaining updated on domestic and international developments (an important prerequisite for a diplomat); I read also to meet my aesthetics needs. I am also fond of traveling, when I also indulge in amateurish photography; my preferred themes are Portraits and Nature. I have published a book in the Coffee-Table format with the title: Sri Lanka-India: Pre-Historic, Mythological and Legendary Links; it has several photographs which I took during my tenure as Assistant High Commissioner for India in Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Q: You represent a country with an ancient history and culture including world-famous monuments and delicious cuisine. How do you feel being an Indian Ambassador?
A: I had the privilege of being born in Independent India in 1952, 5 years after India gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. I belong to the first generation of independent Indians and thus I grew up as my country did. I have been witness to the incredible transformation of India, from an impoverished country into one of the fastest growing economies in the world.
I consider it as my proud privilege to represent India in Armenia and Georgia – two countries with whom the history of our people-to-people contact spans over several centuries. It is also my privilege to represent India as an ancient civilization with a history of over 5,000 years, [a country] which is the birth place of major religions and numerous political and spiritual leaders who have shaped the destiny of the country and also served as role models for the rest of the world. I am also proud to represent India as a modern country which is the world’s largest functioning Democracy, which is a vibrant economy endeavoring towards inclusive growth so that the fruits of prosperity are shared by each and every citizen of India. I am also proud of representing a country which is home to over one billion people with enormous ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity and yet bound together by the sense of unity in diversity and one identity of being an Indian first and everything else later.
Q: I can not wrap up an interview with the Indian Ambassador without asking about India’s national treasure – Mahatma Gandhi! Do you have a favorite quote?
A: With regard to quotes from Mahatma Gandhi, in my opinion, almost every word uttered by Mahatma Gandhi is quotable. While it is extremely difficult to rate one quotation better than the other, I personally like the following two quotations which are timeless and remain equally valid even after a span of more than 100 years.
No. 1: “We (ourselves) must become the change we want to see (around us).”
No. 2: “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”.
This is extremely relevant in the contemporary context of sustainable development, which demands that we should exploit from nature what we need for the present generation but at the same time should also leave enough for the needs of future generations.
Q: Thank you very much!
"Georgia Today" 22/10/2010
24/100 Possibilities~ 100 Possibilities Project set
Benjamin Franklin, born January 17, 1706
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and first fire department in Pennsylvania. He was an early proponent of colonial unity and as a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation[1] and as a diplomat during the American Revolution, he secured the French alliance that helped to make independence possible.
Franklin is credited as being foundational to the roots of American values and character, a marriage of the practical and democratic Puritan values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. Franklin became a newspaper editor, printer, and merchant in Philadelphia, becoming very wealthy, writing and publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin was interested in science and technology, and gained international renown for his famous experiments. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations. Toward the end of his life, he became one of the most prominent abolitionists.
Benjamin Franklin was born on Milk Street, in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler, a maker of candles and soap, whose second wife, Abiah Folger, was Benjamin's mother. Josiah's marriages produced 17 children; Benjamin was the fifteenth child and youngest son. Ben attended Boston Latin School but did not graduate; he continued his education through voracious reading.
At the age of 17, Franklin proposed to 15 year old Deborah Read while a boarder in the Read home. At that time, the mother was wary of allowing her young daughter to wed Franklin. Her own husband having recently died, Mrs. Read declined his offer of marriage to her daughter. Besides, Franklin had a baby boy named William, by a woman whose identity remains unknown. Deborah married a man named John Rodgers. This proved to be a regrettable decision. Rodgers shortly avoided his debts and prosecution by fleeing to Barbados with her dowry, leaving Deborah behind. With Rodgers' fate unknown, and bigamy illegal, Deborah was not free to remarry.
Franklin established a common-law marriage with Deborah Read on September 1, 1730, and besides taking in young William, together they had two children. The first, Francis Folger Franklin, born October 1732, died of smallpox in 1736. Sarah Franklin, nicknamed Sally, was born in 1743.
Like the other advocates of republicanism, Franklin emphasized that the new republic could survive only if the people were virtuous in the sense of attention to civic duty and rejected corruption. All his life he explored the role of civic and personal virtue, as expressed in Poor Richard's aphorisms. Franklin later in life rarely attended Sunday services but commented that "...Sunday being my studying day, I never was without some religious principles. I never doubted, for instance, the existence of the Deity; that He made the world, and governed it by His providence; that the most acceptable service of God was the doing good to man; that our souls are immortal; and that all crime will be punished, and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter." One of Franklin's endearing beliefs was in the respect and tolerance of all religious groups. He consistently attacked religious dogma, arguing that morality depended more on virtue and benevolent actions than on strict obedience to religious orthodoxy: "I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me."
www.earlyamerica.com/lives/franklin/
"I'm going away for a while.
But I'll be back, don't try to follow me,
'Cause I'll return as soon as possible.
See I'm trying to find my place,
But it might not be here where I feel safe.
We all learn to make mistakes.
And run.
From them, from them,
With no direction.
We'll run from them, from them,
With no conviction.
'Cause I'm just one of those ghosts,
Travelling endlessly.
Don't need no roads.
In fact they follow me.
And we just go in circles.
Now I'm told that this life,
And pain is just a simple compromise,
So we can get what we want out of it.
Would someone care to classify,
Our broken hearts and twisted minds,
So I can find someone to rely on.
And run,
To them, to them
Full speed ahead.
Oh, you are not useless.
We are just...
Misguided ghosts,
Traveling endlessly.
The ones we trusted the most,
Pushed us far away.
And there's no one road,
We should not be the same.
But I'm just a ghost,
And still they echo me.
They echo me in circles."
--"Misguided Ghosts" by Paramore
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I love this song SO much. Paramore's new cd has SO many quotable songs. It drives me crazy because I don't have enough pictures for all the quotes I want to use! haha
Here's something new. It's finally fall!
I'm going to some "haunted" houses tonight! = )
Dif version below that says "All i wanted was you".
La Paz
Peace
~ If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.~
~~~ Mother Teresa
I think I'm going to take long walks and talk to myself a lot more now often. I was given a broken heart recently. I feel like healing isn't going to fix the love I was surrounded by. I am looking at myself from a high up perspective. The right feelings should be found up there. I let myself step outside of my perimeters. I let myself go, knowing the consequences. I knew the whole time. Like I was an elderly sister for myself I watched me go, but I’d be back and with a half way filled up cup, and bloody, bloody. I fell in and fell afraid of the way I felt as each day turned into each moment. I never got to say it, and I kept hearing myself say "it's going to make you feel like a million dollars worth spending". I'm not going to go through this being angry or blaming the one who left. He did it for himself, I hope what was wrong in his head is now fixed. The hard thing to admit to myself is what I'm going to miss the most. I'm going to miss those people I fell in love with, every single one. They are the people who I felt comfortable around enough to shout out words that meant nothing, laughing won't be there. I just felt like that's where I belonged, for the first time in my short life. I already want those times back. I'm finding my way back home to the heart I used to have, it wasn't graceful, and it wasn't broken. I know I'll bother it enough until I stomp out the cracks . . . there's not enough footprints on it just yet. I don't want pity from people, just treat me like you used to. Treat me fair give me what I deserve. I'm trying my best to give it all to me. I don't know if you'll ever go looking, but I've been putting notes for you in the crack of an empty room. You’ll never know the way. "It all boils down to one quotable phrase, if you love something, give it away".
Great collection of saying image from all over the world.
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This clip of Steve Jobs via Paris Lemon/Dalton Caldwell is just great. Jobs was one of the most quotable men in the...
Austin's New Central Library opened October 28, 2017. There is a massive, metal window shade mounted on the library's east facade. The shade is imprinted with quotes about books and reading.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." - Gandhi
"I am still learning." - Michelangelo
Library Journal - September 1, 2013 - Fall Announcements issue
Fringe Florida: Travels among Mud Boggers, Furries, Ufologists, Nudists, and Other Lovers of Unconventional Lifestyles
American Alligator: Ancient Predator in the Modern World
Sleigh Rides, Jingle Bells, and Silent Nights: A Cultural History of American Christmas Songs
Cuban Revelations: Behind the Scenes in Havana
High Seas Wranglers: The Lives of Atlantic Fishing Captains
The Quotable Eleanor Roosevelt
Skyway: The True Story of Tampa Bay's Signature Bridge and the Man Who Brought It Down
Enchantments: Julian Dimock’s Photographs of Southwest Florida
Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator
Places I Never Meant To Be -- “In this provocative collection, Judy Blume, the censors' favorite target, assembles an all-star cast of young adult writers who have themselves felt the pain of censorship. Each contributes an original short story and some highly quotable observations on their own experiences and feelings when under attack. "Where once I went to my writing without a backward glance," writes Norma Fox Mazer, "now I sometimes have to consciously clear my mind of those shadowy censorious presences." – from www.amazon.com
I’ve been reading a lot about literary censorship in the past few years and this book came up when I was on Judy Blume’s website. It’s really amazing some of the ignorant, disturbing and downright ridiculous reasons people will come up with for challenging or banning a book. The stories in this book were really good – a couple of them were very moving and one had a really funny ending. I would recommend this book, especially if you grew up reading Judy Blume, Norma Klein and other challenged/banned authors.
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The Angel's Game -- “In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.
Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.” -- from www.amazon.com
I’m about halfway through this book and so far, it is very good. There are some parts where the story drags a little but that’s balanced out by some really amazing parts.
Places I Never Meant To Be -- Started: July 4, 2009 Finished: July 5, 2009
The Angel's Game -- Started: July 5, 2009 Finished: July 22, 2009
25 Book Challenge 2009 Books #36 & #37
~ Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 1964
Cory and I stumbled upon a HUGE group of squirrels... be expecting more shots soon...
My notes from Matteo Bologna's presentation for AIGADC on January 26, 2012. One of the most quotable/tweetable/sketchable presentations I have ever been to...the perfect mix of humor and cheekiness. If you ever get a chance to see him talk, do it. And then make him buy you french fries afterwards.
Day 101 of 365: A Ray Bradbury quote that pretty much sums up my philosophy in life. You tend to get a few bruises along the way, but learn a hell of a lot quicker. Speaking of Ray Bradbury, "Something wicked this way comes" was my favorite book back in junior high.
For FGR: Quotably Suitable for Framing.
For TRP: Brown and Beige Unlimited
For TV: Juxtaposition. Added the little twist with the ankle shackle just for y'all.
Raleigh, NC (Wake County)
The Capitol Area Historic District includes this central square, the surrounding structures - churches on each corner and government offices facing the capitol - and streets extending to the east and west. These streets include a number of distinguished and representative domestic buildings and churches. No commercial buildings are represented. Though the buildings represent a plethora of styles and periods, there is a persistent, identifiable continuity with few intrusions (except for gap sites created by large parking areas). The boundaries of the district roughly correspond to the locally designated historic district. (1)
The square itself became a landscape of commemoration for noble deeds, sacrifices, achievements, sayings, and official sentiments of the state. A third of the memorials pay tribute to individual and events of the Civil War. The largest and earliest of these, a Confederate monument erected in 1894, features a tall stone shaft on an elaborate base, with two statues, decorations, and inscriptions, and cannon placed at Fort Caswell during the War. Other Civil lvar monuments include Gutzon Borglum's statue of Henry Lawwon Wyatt of Bethel, North Carolina, said to have been the first soldier to die in battle; sculptor Augustus Lukeman's sentimental tribute to the women of the Confederacy (1914); a plaque honoring Samuel A'Court Ashe (1840-1938), last surviving commissioned officer of the Confederate States Army and noted editor.
The non-Civil War monuments include a mid-nineteenth century copy of Houdon's statue of Washington; F. H. Packer's statue of Worth Bagley, first American killed in action in the Spanish-American War; statues of Zebulon B. Vance (by H. J. Ellicot) and Charles Aycock, each flanked by tablets of bas reliefs by Borglum and quotable quotations; statue of noted educator Charles Duncan Mciver (1806-1906) by Ruchstuhl; and a large tableau (1948) of the three presidents of the United States claimed by North Carolina: James K. Polk, Andrew Jackson, and Andrew Johnson. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form files.nc.gov/ncdcr/nr/WA0053.pdf
Been doing a lot of pondering lately... If you don't mind I'm going to ramble for a while. I know I don't normally, but I feel like it tonight.
So, I've been housesitting, as you know, and the grandmother lives here with the family. Well, "Mimaw" stayed here while everyone is away and she and I have all our meals together (she even insisted on taking me out to dinner tonight. :)). We've had some really good conversations. I've been making our meals, but a couple days ago I came down with a bug. Mimaw was so sweet... she knew I was feeling blah and made some chicken noodle soup for me. It's not super easy for her to do things, so that meant a lot. Today after lunch I asked her if I could take her picture. She responded with, "Well, I suppose you can. I am Marilyn Monroe, after all. Of course, I won't look like her in the pictures. You know that, don't you?" She makes me laugh! Her sense of humor is great. More quotables would be, "When I was little, back in the dark ages..." and, "I'm not perfect. I'm just a little perfect." :D After a picture we started talking about families and family histories, which led to Mimaw getting a book about her side of the family. We spent over an hour looking at the book. So many pictures... and the stories she told! Wow. Everyone has a story. You don't see it just to look at a person. You don't know the depths of them; what they've gone through, the decisions they've made, the regrets they've lived with, the joys they've known.
I was thinking then too of my parents. They are completely amazing. I want to thank them for raising us kids the way they did and teaching us to care about others through their example. If they hadn't I know I wouldn't be here having a great time talking with someone who is 57 years older than me! My world doesn't consist of just me and I can learn soooo much from others! -Especially those who have lived longer and experienced more than I.
I have a challenge for you.
Take one moment from your busy day and tell someone you appreciate them. Thank them for some little thing they've done. It'll make their day and yours. Try it.
it's thursday, but no work tomorrow, so really, it's KIND of like friday! four day weekend WIN.
it's pouring out, but i'm just so damn giddy. i'd say i can't sit still, but i have a task tonight. no work tomorrow means i can catch up on those random movies i've never seen but picked out of the LVL 0.49 bin at the grocery store. tonight's flick(s):
-swimming with sharks (couldn't stand it. FF'd to the end.)
-what's eating gilbert grape (expected better things. dicaprio's performance was epic.)
-outside providence ("my brother's in a wheel chair because of a freak accident as a kid. one day we were playing touch football and he fell off the roof." quotable stuff.)
spinspinspinspin! one day i will actually put some effort into a hair-fwip shot.
037/365
Standing 1110' above the sea level and eight and a half miles from shore, Ailsa Craig is a remnant volcanic plug consisting of high quality granite which is still quarried for the manufacture of curling stones. Curling is a strange sport rather like bowls played on ice but Ayrshire folk are good at it, with two bonnie local lassies (in a "rink" of four) winning Gold in the 2002 winter Olympics. From Stranraer to Girvan Ailsa Craig dominates the seascape and over the years has appealed to many writers including WILLIAM WORDSWORTH whose 1883 poem: "In the Frith of Clyde (from a steamboat)", includes the following line describing Ailsa Craig:-
"Since risen from ocean, ocean to defy".
Good old SIR WALTER SCOTT is dependably quotable from " Lord of the Isles":-
"My trust in thee is firm as Ailsa Rock" AND
in his 1830 play: AUCHINDRANE or THE AYRSHIRE TRAGEDY, John Mure of Auchindrane on considering the perils he faces:-
"What should appall a man inured to perils, like the bold climber on the crags of Ailsa? Winds whistle past him, billows rage below, the sea-fowl sweep around, with shrieks and clang; one single slip, one unadvised pace, one qualm of giddiness - and peace be with him! But he whose grasp is sure, whose step is firm, whose brain is constant - he makes one proud rock".
And ROBERT BURNS'S Duncan Grey tells us that:
"Meg was deaf as Ailsa Craig".
My thanks to andrascot for directing me to the JOHN KEATS poem:-
TO AILSA ROCK
"Hearken, thou craggy ocean pyramid!
Give answer from thy voice, the sea-fowls’ screams!
When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams?
When from the sun was thy broad forehead hid?
How long is’t since the mighty Power bid
Thee heave to airy sleep from fathom dreams?
Sleep in the lap of thunder or sunbeams,
Or when grey clouds are thy cold coverlid?
Thou answer’st not, for thou art dead asleep;
Thy life is but two dead eternities —
The last in air, the former in the deep;
First with the whales, last with the eagle-skies —
Drown’d wast thou till an earthquake made thee steep,
Another cannot wake thy giant size".
The following poem is from SEAMUS HEANEY:
SWEENEY ASTRAY
But to have ended up
lamenting here
on Ailsa Craig.
A hard station!
Ailsa Craig,
the seagull's home,
God knows
it is hard lodgings.
Ailsa Craig,
bell-shaped rock,
reaching sky-high,
snout in the sea -
Seamus Heaney 1939 - 2013.
In her 2014 Arran novel 'The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle' KIRSTY YOUNG'S central character:
'we explored the Ayrshire countryside, picnicking on the coast looking out to the great granite rock of Ailsa Craig, and strolling by the river Doon near Alloway Kirk'
The following is from the Ayrshire poet Rab Wilson's collection: Life Sentence:-
DIPTYCH: THE HILLS
Some age-auld wish hus stirred within oor breist,
That atavistic urge tae juist stravaig,
Seen Arran's lofty peaks, an Ailsa Craig,
The seascape views that rax intae the west.
These journeys o the hert that we hae taen,
Re-trace routes buiret lang athin oorsels,
Some thing lang deids reborn, we are compelled
Tae walk these paths an claim them fir oor ain;
Thon distant range wull ring aneath oor buits,
The Road aheid lies straicht, step boldly oot.
Rab Wilson.
From another writer steeped in modern Ayrshire - Andrew O'Hagan's OUR FATHERS
Our bus bent around the golf course at Royal Troon. You could see Ailsa Craig beyond the fairway, out in the sea. A craggy pyramid. A sinking oil-rig. Paddy's Mile Stane. A lavender-tinted boulder in the slovenly-coloured sea.
Andrew O'Hagan.
The great Galloway writer S.R.Crockett probably made numerous references to Ailsa Craig, his series of novels collectively known as the 'Galloway Collection' runs to 32 titles. The following from SILVER SAND published in 1914:
"Already the solons (gannets) were beginning to cease their diving operations in the deep water off the rocks; and, after a wheel or two high in the pale blue-white sky, to measure their direction, they launched themselves across moor, loch and unstable sea-water straight for their abode upon Ailsa Craig"
S.R.Crockett.
My reserve copy of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century finally arrived at the library, and I've spent hours browsing this huge, powerful work. No, like most readers (skimmers?), I haven't read the entire 685 pages. (The five most highlighted passages on the Kindle version are all in the first 26 pages.) But I've read more than the first 26 pages.
It's well-written and quotable -- and what other economics book references Jane Austen several times? What's most compelling is the book's vast historical sweep, a powerful reminder that for most of human history since the invention of agriculture, virtually all assets belonged to a small elite, while most of humanity owned nothing and simply struggled to survive
One of America's greatest accomplishments in the 20th century was to reverse this trend and create a strong middle class, as did European countries to various degrees. And then, with the Reagan and Thatcher revolutions, we seemed to throw away everything our history had taught us. Income, capital gains and inheritance tax cuts allowed the rich to become much richer, devastating the middle class and crushing the poor.
Now we seem to be heading toward the kind of society dominated by inherited wealth that the American colonies rebelled against in the first place. Inequality is turning the American Dream into an American Fantasy, out of reach for more and more people.
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Valentine's Day 101 - Top 5 Romantic Films to Share
It's many lovers' choice to go to theatre for a film on Valentine's Day, and here, I just want to share the top 5 romantic and classic films with you. Maybe they would be your plan in the next Saint Valentine's Day.
1 Roman Holiday (1953)
Ann is a princess of a country. When visiting to Roman, she is bored with the restriction from her chancellors. In order to have a true visit to Roman, she plays a trick on the others and leaves quietly.
By accident, she comes across Joe, a frustrated journalist and Irving, a newspaper photographer. They have a good time together for a short period. But it's just during this period that the elegant princess falls in love with the poor journalist.
It's doomed to be a unhappy ending: Ann is not able to stay together with Joe, because of her responsibility to her country. But, luckily, she has had an unforgettable and exciting adventure tour in the beautiful city - Roman, and shared the subtle feelings with an excellent and humourous man, Joe.
2 Casablanca (1943)
One of the most sentimental films for American movie-goers, Casablanca centers around the love triangle between Ilsa, Rick, and Victor. In French-occupied Morroco during World War II, Ilsa unexpectedly enters her former lover's, Rick's, cafe with her husband, freedom-fighting Victor. Caught between her love for Rick and her loyalty to Victor's cause, Ilsa must persuade Rick to give Victor two letters of transit in order to escape Nazi persecution.
Casablanca is a well-made, intelligent film, strengthened by terrific performances and flavorful characters that are the highlight of the eternally-quotable script, not to mention it contains the forever memorable song "As Time Goes By". As a film, it's perfectly directed and brilliantly edited, with almost no scene or character shown needlessly, always progressing the story or giving more information about certain characters.
3 Gone with the Wind (1939)
Gone With The Wind is often considered the most beloved, enduring and popular film of all time. Sidney Howard's script was derived from Margaret Mitchell's first and only published, best-selling Civil War and Reconstruction Period novel of 1,037 pages that first appeared in 1936, but was mostly written in the late 1920s.
Producer David O. Selznick had acquired the film rights to Mitchell's novel in July, 1936 for $50,000 - a record amount at the time to an unknown author for her first novel, causing some to label the film "Selznick's Folly." At the time of the film's release, the fictional book had surpassed 1.5 million copies sold. More records were set when the film was first aired on television in two parts in late 1976, and controversy arose when it was restored and released theatrically in 1998.
4 Ghost (1990)
An interesting hybrid of popular film genres, Ghost showcases the talents of its entire cast. While out on the town one evening, New York couple Sam and Molly are confronted by a mugger. After submitting to his demands, Sam is murdered anyway. He then finds himself a disembodied spirit, invisible to the living world, wandering without hope until he finds a spiteful spirit aboard the subway who gives him some helpful pointers on how to co-exist.
Soon Sam comes back into contact with those he knew in life, and he begins to learn piece-by-piece of his close friend and co-worker Carl's embezzling plot which caused his death; the apparent mugging was, in fact, a premeditated murder. In the meantime, Carl has designs on Molly, and Sam is determined to extract revenge. He contacts a psychic, and together, the two set out to serve justice and stop the maniacal Carl from getting to Molly.
Blending comedy, romance, action, and horror, Ghost was a box-office smash and managed to garner five Academy Award nominations, including "Best Picture," "Best Supporting Actress", "Best Original Screenplay," "Best Editing," and "Best Score".
5 Titanic (1997)
This spectacular epic re-creates the ill-fated maiden voyage of the White Star Line's 7.5 million R.M.S Titanic and the tragic sea disaster of April 15, 1912. Running over three hours and made with the combined contributions of two major studios (20th Century-Fox, Paramount) at a cost of more than 200 million, Titanic ranked as the most expensive film in Hollywood history at the time of its release, and became the most successful.
The scene shifts to 1912 Southampton where passengers boarding the Titanic include penniless Jack Dawson and society girl Rose DeWitt Bukate, returning to Philadelphia with her wealthy fiance Cal Hockley. After the April 10th launch, Rose develops a passionate interest in Jack. At midpoint in the film, the Titanic slides against the iceberg and water rushes into the front compartments. Then there comes the most touching plot: Jack encourages Rose to strive for life but himself died...
There are many other moving and romantic films of course. But in my opinion, I highly recommend to have a feast on these five films. Go to have a look, I think you will agree with me, won't you?
I've never been to Delaware, but I always associate that state with one of my favorite blues/rock performers, George Thorogood and his band, the Delaware Destroyers. He's got "snake skin shoes, baby, put them on your feet, got the goodtime music and the Bo Diddley beat". In fact, I even bought the t-shirt. One of my favorites--the word "Destroyer" like a baseball team logo in red, across a black background. They included the outline of the state of Delaware, too; but it lacks the graphic "umphf" of a state like, say, Texas. They could've left that lame map off.
But George, well, I don't usually think of the New England states as a hotbed of rowdies, but he could be persuading me differently. The state motto--"Live free or die" (oh, that's New Hampshire?, oops--okay). Delaware's is "Liberty and Independence". Well, that works too--not quite as heartfelt, but still worthy.
Ol' George sticks to the 1-4-5 Blues, simple songs that I can play, too! And some of the lyrics are quotable lines from my own life, particularly now that I'm a nautical slumlord: "changed the locks on my front door, and now my key, it won't fit no more..."
Or, from "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer":
"She said that don't concern me,
long as I get my money next Friday.
Now next Friday come. I didn't get the rent,
and out the door I went..."
~Albert Einstein
Valentine's Day is just around the corner... I can't wait! Any day where I get to tell people I love them and bake cupcakes is fine by me :)
If you haven't already heard, "Tiny Treasures" has been nominated on "The Lovelies!"
Can you believe it!?
Please go vote by leaving a comment or twittering the feed...
Voting is open through February 28th. Thank you to everyone who has already voted... it means so much to me :)
One of the miracles is the existence of this book. It is written by the author of one of my senior physics textbooks (c. 1961) and is undoubtedly a result of his collaborative effort with Larry LeShan on Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky, a book I will take from my library to re-read shortly.
The Miracle of Existence covers a territory well-traveled by metaphysical and theological explorers but seldom by a physicist, especially in public, and Margenau does it without LeShan as a guide this time. The first chapter on the connections between the mind and physical reality is a big help for the novice explorers. In it Margenau establishes operational definitions for discussing the real world: how to separate perceptions, objects, and mental constructs from each other.
He discusses evolution and the existence of morphogenetic-like fields without specifically referring to Rupert Sheldrake's term, which seems a little strange. This is an oversight that the good physicist would never make when writing about physics. It would be like his trying to talk about the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle without using either Heisenberg or Uncertainty. For example, in this book he points out the usefulness of "rules of correspondence" which are, in fact, operational definitions, the introduction of which concept he attributes to the philosopher-physicist Bridgmann.
Overall the book promised meat and delivered menu. The menu offered a visual splash of perennial philosophy stuffed into scientific pastry shells covered with toppings of Eastern metaphysics to create the effect of a Mondrian painting. Pretty as a picture, but who can eat it or explain what it means.
One repugnant tendency of modern science over the centuries has been to thrash someone's ideas in one century and a century or so later, suddenly find a way finally to make sense of the same ideas. The creatio ex nihilo tenet of Thomas Aquinas was regarded as absurd by the modern scientists of his time, and modern scientists of our time find it plausible that matter is created out of nothing in the theory of the Universe known as the Big Bang.
One quotable quote:
[page 131, For Insomnia] As far as I know the best remedy is a psychic one: convince the patient that the sleep he gets is all he needs.
Perhaps that is the message of this book for me: "The knowledge I have of this subject is all I need" and that I can safely avoid such books in the future.
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust
7 Days of Shooting/Week #10 - Quotable Quotes/Black and White Wednesday
This quote, in the pavement at the Writers' Museum, Edinburgh, is from the poem "Hamnavoe." Hamnavoe is the Viking name for the town of Stromness, Orkney, where George Mackay Brown spent most of his life. The poem is a memorial to his father, a postman, describing his postman's round in Stromness and the people he meets on his way. You can read the whole poem here: www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/sharedList.do?id=8LrzWU
The Vulcan Mold & Iron Company's office headquarters, with the sign displaying Danou Technologies. The sign used to display inspirational & quotable messages when Vulcan was still in operation. (Katie Bashlor collection)
GST Eastern Voles Christmas gathering at Flitton Moor
19/12/2017
Hi All & Tim
May I add my thanks to you all and wish you a happy Christmas and lots of good Voling together in 2018. I cannot wait. All those bonfires, cakes and sarcastic humour.
I thought I would be clever and write a piece about Tuesday incorporating some relevant quotes but the effort has quite overtaken me. So here instead are a few lines from a very wise & quotable Englishman .
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
There are loads more to choose from and I have to say I was very surprised, perhaps I should read some of his books instead of relying on BBC Childrens Dramas from my earlier years when, hard to believe I was a sprog with hopes and the occasional dream, many of which have been far exceeded in life.
My snaps from Flitton are as usual at www.flickr.com/photos/pitzys_pyx/
Cheers JP
Hi All,
Many thanks for all your hard work at Flitton Moor on Tuesday. We were slightly down on the usual numbers but it didn’t stop you getting a whole lot done! I know David was pleased with the result and in his own words:
Thanks to all those who turned out on Tuesday at Flitton Moor - you did an amazing job as always.
Re fencing: I was expecting at the very most that half of the fence would be completed - and you did 2 thirds of it. Well done. The FoFM will finish it shortly in the new year.
Thanks also to those who manned the fire - and dragged brash to it. Almost all the was cut down was burnt.
And a special mention to the 6 hardy souls who spent the morning digging nettles.
A Merry Christmas to all, and a healthy 2018,
David
Thank you also to Lucinda, Sue and Erika for helping out with refreshments at lunchtime and to Malcolm and Jackie for such a lovely cake.
The next Tuesday task will be at Sandy Smith on the 2nd January and will be doing a bit more thinning/coppicing in the plantation near the bridge over the Flit plus maybe a few other jobs.
But there will also be a task at Maulden Heath next Thursday (28th) if anyone wishes to come along. The task will be clearing brash and regeneration in the Adder Field and, of course, having a fire; meet at the Picnic Area at 10am.
Thanks for all your hard work this year and I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!
Tim Spencer Countryside Ranger The Greensand Trust