give a fig

“I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

“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

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
~Groucho Marx

nerd/dweeb/dork + peculiarity =

"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."

~John Burroughs

Muir Woods

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods."
~Lord Byron

fortitude & verve

“Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”
~Oscar Wilde

verve

def.

1. Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition
2. Vitality; liveliness.
3. Archaic. Aptitude; talent.

fortitude

def.

Strength of mind that allows one to endure pain or adversity with courage.

berry much

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

~Oscar Wilde

a very tart tart indeed

"I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder."
~Ernest Dowson

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
~Mark Twain

aquatic park

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
~William Shedd

holiday bliss

wreath karma

"Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words."
~Harlan Miller

"When I am grown to man's estate
I shall be very proud and great.
And tell the other girls and boys
Not to meddle with my toys."
~Robert Louis Stevenson

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful"

~Norman Vincent Peale

“I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

victoria's secret santa

"Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip."
~Gary Allan

max is mad

What did Adam say to Eve the night before Christmas?

It's Christmas, Eve!

jingle bells

throx rox (peppermint) socks~ purely brilliant

sock party info

Why was Santa's little helper depressed?

he was suffering from low elf esteem

santa francisco

“We live in a rainbow of chaos.”

~Paul Cezanne

cemetery sun shower

multicolored miracle

“You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."

~Antoine de St Exupery

“Half wits talk much, but say little.”

~Benjamin Franklin

2,220 hundred posts today!

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

happy winter solstice

sea peace

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

~Mother Teresa

Serva me, Servabo te

a nigerian proverb

"Love is like seaweed;
even if you have pushed it away, you will not prevent it from coming back."

olive oyl magnet

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

~Coco Chanel

“There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.”

~Ayn Rand

dose this

Q'est-ce que c'est?

"On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock."

~Thomas Jefferson

impenetrable

"I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat."

~Edgar Alan Poe

lamp shade fashion

"Fashion is a form of ugliness
so intolerable that we have to alter
it every six months."

~Oscar Wilde

"Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys."

- Andre Gide

"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom."

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

street corner musician

"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."

~Plato

Stinson Beach News

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

~Henry David Thoreau

"Sunshine is my quest."

~Winston Churchill

It is a privilege to vote~ an email reminder from David Bynre

message sent from David Byrne
4:23 AM

Pardon the bulk mailing. I Can't Vote. I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election. FYI - I can get drafted (luckily, Daniel Berrigan burned my draft board's records) and I pay taxes, yet I cannot vote for President. On Election Day, I see my neighbors heading to the nearby elementary school to cast their ballots. The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

But most of you can vote. What can I say? The Republicans have made us less safe than before 9/11, bankrupted this economy, started an illegal war they can't - and don't intend to - finish, removed what sympathy (after 9/11) and respect the world had for the US, and have robbed US citizens of many of their basic rights. Global warming? What's that? Science and education? Investment in our future? No, thanks - we'll stick with a good 'ole hockey mom. Ignorant, and fucking proud of it, as is always the case.

Although it looks like a shoo-in, it ain't over 'til Florida. And there are plenty of racists in this country who will vote against their own best interests. So please, get to your local elementary school, post office, town hall, or whatever, and cast your vote and make this a country we can all be proud of. We can get out of this mess, and life can be better than it is.

David Byrne
NYC

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