MISS

?

no reservations

"The better part of valor is discretion"

~Shakespeare

just like hummingbird...

but not !

beach bound

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"And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again."
~Bram Stoker

begin to climb again

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."


~Ulysses S. Grant

bird brain brilliance

"There is science,
logic, reason;
there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."



~Edward Abbey

"California is where you can't run any farther without getting wet."

~Neil Morgan

ready for spells

blue yonder great

thank God it's Friday !

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!"

~Friedrich Nietzsche

I'd like to thank my little fan club

something about bringing great joy...

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"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal."

integrity

"A little integrity is better than any career."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

grace

“Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love”

~John Milton

dignity

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.”
~Winston Churchill

"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one." ~E.B. White

~Jonathan Swift

"When a true genius appears
in the world, you may know him
by this sign, that the dunces are
all in confederacy against him."

Extraordinary intellectual and creative power

totem

independence

cable car serenade

~a Chinese Proverb

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess."
~Art Buchwald, 1970

“Peace begins with a smile.”
~Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Walk in beauty on the Mother Earth

~E. Knight

"Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity."

sacred

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

play much more

Sigmund Freud

"The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."

blow your mind much?

I know something you don't know

brilliant wishes

an imovie for you today

new year

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

feeding Proverb

"Zeal is like fire: it needs both feeding and watching."

majestical

pathos

boundaries are non negotiable

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I draw circles and sacred boundaries about me; fewer and fewer climb with me up higher and higher mountains.—I am building a mountain chain out of ever-holier mountains.”

carry on now

kaleidoscope hope

a marvelous idea

on a shamanic holiday

door on Fillmore

"Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit." ~Kin Hubbard

sip this

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?"
~G.K. Chesterton

"Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas."

~Kin Hubbard

merry much more

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~Norman Vincent Peale

"Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles."
~Author Unknown

it's all true

cause for optimism

go fly this

I will prevail

"If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles."
~Sun Tzu

Napoleon Hill

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.”

put that in your pocket

African Cichlid