Cheer up quotes for the day . . .

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?"
-- James Thurber

"One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory."
-- Rita Mae Brown

"I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally."
-- W. C. Fields

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
-- Ronald Reagan

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Favorites on a Monday morning . . .

"The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect."
-- Esther Dyson

"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."
-- Ogden Nash

"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."
-- Daniel Webster

"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
-- Aldous Huxley

Pay off for raising a kid right - words to warm a mother's heart . . .

I received a note from my college-aged daughter this morning regarding the recent shooting of an abortion doctor. It was great to see she has embraced real Christian values and understands what is right and wrong. It made my day!

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Way to go, hidden assassin. Genius move, I'm sure that America will now appreciate our way of thinking. That guy could have had a chance to save his soul in the future. And now YOU have the sin of MURDER on your soul, and his LIFE has ended.

Seriously. This and all the guys at school laughing about beating up gay people. Jesus Christ never beat anyone up. Jesus Christ never killed anyone, not even murderers.

What is the world coming to when supporters of the pro-life movement break the law and end life?

Isn't it sad that the devil can pull tempation from the noblest of causes? That he can turn it all inside-out? Maybe the gunman thought he was doing a good thing, but he went against his own creed, probably, possibly, turning millions back to the pro-choice movement.


I can't get over it.


:( Please say a prayer for the souls of the aborted babies, but say a prayer for this abortionist's soul as well; he needs it. We should also pray for the gunman who killed him, because now his soul is in jeopardy.


Love you, Mom. Thanks for life.

~Julianna

Points to Ponder . . .

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-- Krishnamurti

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
-- Steven Wright

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
-- H. L. Mencken

Quilting Fever Continues . . .

I seem to be somewhat more reasonable of late . . . I only have three almost-done quilts on the stack. They got put aside in favor of starting and completing a special quilt order for a friend. Okay, I will admit that in spite of having incomplete work at hand, I started another scrap quilt today. Hey, someone has to use up all the pretty scraps. It's a job and someone has to do it, right?!

I actually managed to make a theme quilt with a scrap quilt feel this week. I found some Disney print fabric with the Disney princesses on it. I cut them each out in six-inch squares and sort of randomly bordered them with fabric that complimented the colors used in the print. It was for an older girls (as in over 19 years old!) so I tried to keep the Disney cute without making it 'baby' cute. I think it worked but now I NEED to do something bright and vibrant. Something in reds . . . or polka dots. Uh, perhaps the Disney quilt was more on the cute side than I originally thought!

Our Bovine World . . .

I read once that people who smoke may do so for the oral aspect because their mothers took away the baby bottle too soon! They need to do something with their mouth. If that were true, what is with all the people who can't get through their day without a wad of gum snapping to and fro in their mouths, punctuating their every word with the pops and explosions of well-used gum? Are there actually that many insecure people loose in the world today?

Gum has been around for ages and you don't think too much about a child happily enjoying the bright, pink bubble gum, trying to blow bubbles without inviting the participation of their hair.

I'm beginning to wonder, however, about all the active jaws that work their way through busy malls, grocery stores, the movies, and even church, a juicy wad of gum snapping and bouncing from cheek to cheek. It's getting to be like overlooking a hyper herd of cows busily working their cud. I suppose the younger set consider themselves 'cool' as they chomp out their conversation midst a clump of gum. It's the older people, the retirement crowd, that make me wonder what they are getting out of all the jaw action. The woman in front of me in line at the store today was close to seventy yet in spite of her carefully styled hair and perfect make up, she wanted to ruin the effect with her gum munching. She provided horrid fascination in the slow line at the check out counter. She would heft the gooey wad from one side to the other, snap down on it to provide an immense POP, suck down a bit, and repeat. Her layer of make up would powder off a bit as the action would heavily crease a wrinkle in the side of her face. It was mesmerizing and I would have drifted off if it weren't for the regular POP sound.

It must be contagious as I often see well-muscled jaws in studio audiences working the chewing gum. I particularly remember several episode of Dancing with the Stars when Billy Ray Cyrus was competing. They kept panning over the audience to show his daughter's reaction. Every, single time the camera closed in on Miley's face, you could actually see the huge wad of gum she had going. She might be an attractive girl. I couldn't say from the distration of the gum.

Not sure how gum crawled out of the school-aged crowd but it has certainly turned society into a herded community. And, like a herd of animals, their used up gum is often left for the soles of unsuspecting shoes.