The Process of Re-inventing Myself: Happy holidays!

Monday, December 24, 2012

Happy holidays!

Feeling relaxed and happy amongst my husband's family. Driving around the damp soaked out English countryside earlier this holiday weekend, it's humbling and warming to appreciate how this country celebrates with all its mixing of people - peacefully. It has a third of the population of the US but perhaps a tenth or less of the land mass. Yet, in these relatively cramped quarters, they get along for the most part.

They've been doing it longer you say - nearly 1,000 years since England was recognized - a few wars and riots since but the community and workers and families do take care of their own and don't overly rely on socialist policies other than their most important wealth - the nation's health services.

What possesses someone - outside of the military or trained police- to actually go out and do the terrible deed of killing another human ? On this eve which marks the birth of one of the Prophets, I don't understand how in this day and age people haven't got that first idea through their thick skulls - don't kill your fellow man.

C'mon people now smile on your brother - try to love one another right now!

Who Am I?

You're Catch-22!
by Joseph Heller
Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you in perpetually untenable situations, and your sense of humor is all that gets you through them. These experiences have also made you an ardent pacifist, though you present your message with tongue sewn into cheek. You could coin a phrase that replaces the word "paradox" for millions of people.
Take the Book Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

You're an Eagle!
Sharp-witted and high-flying, you seem to radiate honor and a sense of pride. You'd make a very good lawyer with your keen eye for details. When up in that rare air, however, make sure to remember to look down to keep your bearings. You never know when it might be important for you to have landed. If you're bald, you love the United States of America, but if you have hair, you feel more ambivalent about it.
Take the Animal Quiz at the Blue Pyramid.

Favorite Quotes

"It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write."

~ Sinclair Lewis

“That’s what building a body of work is all about: it’s about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large and small that add up over time, over a lifetime, to a lasting legacy.” -- President Barack Obama

"Don't try to be a great man, just be a man. And let history make its own judgments." -- Zefram Cochrane

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
Sophocles

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. "
William Osler

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. "
William Osler

"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."
~ Pearl S. Buck

“I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.”
- Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 - 1592)

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale, US clergyman (1898 - 1993)

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to." - Dorothy Parker

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, December 24, 2012

Happy holidays!

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