"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Alexis de Tocqueville
…...free-spirited, sometimes naive, all the time passionate, most of the time kind, conservative, fair minded, perpetually delighted, unceasingly amused, honest,loyal, stubborn, impulsive, creative, faithful, thoughtful yet often careless, demanding, unthinking ..…did I mention stubborn and impulsive…
too many to list...but I'm working on mellowing in my old age....
My Philosophy
"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms...." george santayana
What Gives Me Hope
Faith, Friends, Forgiveness, Sunsets, Stars, and Tomorrow
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
"First, kill all the lawyers...."(Shakespeare)
"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ..." Thomas Jefferson
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till." EMERSON
"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)