Wonderful Quotes

I have a friend who sends out daily quotes to everyone he knows. Some of them are really good and now that I have my own place to post things, I thought I'd share the ones that I've saved and I really like... enjoy!

" When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
John Lennon

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" Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what needed to be. Don't think that you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time."
Asha Tyson

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" You cannot change other people, only your own expectations."
Jen Chism

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"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror"
Byrd Baggett

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"A person who brings you more frowns then smiles is not worth your time. We all deserve the best, so never settle for less. Find the person who loves all of you for who you are forever, instead of a person who wants some of you for a moment. Remember your value and respect you."
Mar'Tina Hampton

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" We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them."
William A. Ward

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" Sometimes you have to stand alone to prove that you can still stand."
Author Unknown

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" Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused!"
Marcelo Mosaner

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" I am thankful to all those who said no to me. It's because of them I did it myself."
Albert Einstein

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"The pace at which love is found depends on the pace at which hate is lost."
Sintory

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" Whatever you do, someone will criticize you. You will be blamed if you act and even if you don't act; if you speak, or don't speak. You can't keep pleasing everyone. If your focus is on finding shortcomings, either in yourself or in others, you cannot raise higher. Recognize that if someone gives a comment, reflect on it. If there is some truth, accept it. If not, then thank them and move on."
Sri Sri Ravishankar

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" Wealth is not measured by possessions or money... but by the relationships you build, the bonds you strengthen, the people you bring together and by the legacy you leave behind... that... is TRUE wealth."
Brad Leslie

Blog Post #2- Ode Poems (Extra Credit)

My Grandmother’s Love Letters

BY HART CRANE

There are no stars tonight
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.

There is even room enough
For the letters of my mother’s mother,
Elizabeth,
That have been pressed so long
Into a corner of the roof
That they are brown and soft,
And liable to melt as snow.

Over the greatness of such space
Steps must be gentle.
It is all hung by an invisible white hair.
It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air.

And I ask myself:

“Are your fingers long enough to play
Old keys that are but echoes:
Is the silence strong enough
To carry back the music to its source
And back to you again
As though to her?”

Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand
Through much of what she would not understand;
And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof
With such a sound of gently pitying laughter.

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The Excrement Poem

by Maxine Kumin

It is done by us all, as God disposes, from
the least cast of worm to what must have been
in the case of the brontosaur, say, spoor
of considerable heft, something awesome.

We eat, we evacuate, survivors that we are.
I think these things each morning with shovel
and rake, drawing the risen brown buns
toward me, fresh from the horse oven, as it were,

or culling the alfalfa-green ones, expelled
in a state of ooze, through the sawdust bed
to take a serviceable form, as putty does,
so as to lift out entire from the stall.

And wheeling to it, storming up the slope,
I think of the angle of repose the manure
pile assumes, how sparrows come to pick
the redelivered grain, how inky-cap

coprinus mushrooms spring up in a downpour.
I think of what drops from us and must then
be moved to make way for the next and next.
However much we stain the world, spatter

it with our leavings, make stenches, defile
the great formal oceans with what leaks down,
trundling off today's last barrowful,
I honor shit for saying: We go on.

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I posted both of these poems because the subject matter could not be more opposite. The first poem by Crane is on a precious topic that is usually very close and fond to the heart. In Kumin's poem, the topic is something that no one would consider beautiful and yet it is written so eloquently. This really shows that poetry is a true art form and something beautiful can be written on just about any topic.

Blog Post #1

PERSONAL INFO

So here I am.. me.  For privacy purposes I will not tell you directly who I am but I will definitely tell you about me.  I am a student of life, and more recently a university.  It's been some time since I've been in school.  I returned so I could fulfill a dream of mine as well as to find more fulfillment in my professional life.  I started out in the same place many years ago and I'm back to finish what I started.

some samples of my work

I have worked as a graphic designer for the past several years and although I love to make pretty "things" I wanted more.  I still enjoy doing some graphic design work on the side but it was time for a career change.  I have an amazing husband who is my number one supporter and my best friend.  He's the kind they write fairy tales about.  (all together now: awwwww)



The last good book I read is Plantation by Dorothea Benton Frank.  It was a real page turner and I could not put it down.  The book contained a lot of emotion and was just a really good read.  I strongly recommend it to anyone who is in search of a good book at the moment.

Another book I really loved is Dear John by Nicholas Sparks.  However, after he  casted Miley Cyrus in one of his stories, I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that.  Oh, and I love, love, love Dear Abby.