@sillysassy I just missed you when I was in Denver last month I think I should be coming back this summer though :-) I would love to catch up with you.. you are a ray of sunshine
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist" - Dom Helder Camara
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Orwell.
Sometimes I talk to myself. Then the two of us just laugh and laugh and laugh.
Inspiration knocks occasionally, but spite bangs on the door all day long.
“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they do but we are all responsible for what somebody else did” - Thomas Sowell
I really like that one, @MissAdventurous !! Thanks for sharing it.
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ursula K. Le Guin
Yes
"Oppression is not hearing a word that offends you, it is being told you cannot say certain words because you might offend someone else".
This is from International Women's Day... but it's a poem for every day.
@Sideon Oh, wow! I hadn't seen that one before. Thanks for sharing it, I really like it!!
@MissAdventurous Touché!
"He was so light-footed if he played in the snow he wouldn't leave any footprints".
I have nothing to declare but my genius.
Oscar Wilde at US Customs in NYC 1892
"No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent."
Emil Cioran.
@MissAdventurous - 'The Wind in the Willows' is one of my favourite books. It's full of good lessons.
"Don't believe everything you read on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
If you see a turtle on top of a fence post, Someone probably put him there.
@UKGuy Frog and Toad are not to be confused with WITW. Frog and Toad are two dudes. And they love each other.
@UKGuy full disclosure here:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/frog-and-toad-an-amphibious-celebration-of-same-sex-love
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair...Kahlil Gibran