Seen on a church billboard:

God calls us to get in the game, not keep score.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
--Carl Sagan

I've been busy dealing with some issues, but I do peek in on your blogs when I can grab a minute. TJ, your stuff will be in the mail this weekend.

Deal with yourself as an individual worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
- Nikki Giovanni

This is a lesson I'm having to teach and they aren't wanting to learn, but I'm more patient than they are stubborn.

“The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’t read what they write, don’t ask them what they believe,
just observe what they do.”

Ashley Montagu
1905-1999




In honor of Random Acts of Kindness Week (11th-17th) I'm having my very own give-away. Leave a comment between now and Sunday, and one of my kids will randomly pick a name and we will send you some goodies. I have no idea what we will send, just be warned that I'm letting my kids decide and my kids are wierd. They are cute as all get out, but don't be mad at me if there is no rhyme or reason to what you recieve. Just know that I've already said no to a pair of used flip flops.


*I swiped the quote from Out on a Limb

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

- Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) on founding Negro History Week, 1926

I want to be Maya Angelou when I grow up.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtues consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I know why the caged bird sings.

'Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with old nonsense.'
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. Begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with old nonsense.'
--Ralph Waldo Emerson