february retrospective

60/366

"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."
- Lady Bird Johnson

59/366

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
- Albert Einstein

58/366

A Cowboy's Prayer

Oh Lord, I've never lived where churches grow.
I love creation better as it stood,
That day You finished it so long ago
And looked upon Your work and called it good.

I know that others find you in the light
That's sifted down through tinted window panes,
And yet I seem to feel You near tonight
In this dim, quiet starlight on the plains.

I thank You, Lord, that I am placed so well,
That You have made my freedom so complete;
That I'm no slave of whistle, clock, or bell
Nor weak-eyed prisoner of wall and street.

Just let me live my life as I've begun
And give me work that's open to the sky;
Make me a pardner of the wind and sun,
And I won't ask a life that's soft or high.

Let me be easy on the man that's down;
Let me be square and generous with all.
I'm careless sometimes, Lord, when I'm in town,
But never let 'em say I'm mean or small!

Make me as big and open as the plains,
As honest as the hoss between my knees,
Clean as the wind that blows behind the rains,
Free as the hawk that circles down the breeze!

Forgive me, Lord, if sometimes I forget.
You know about the reasons that are hid.
You understand the things that gall and fret;
You know me better than my mother did.

Just keep an eye on all that's done and said
And right me, sometimes when I turn aside,
And guide me on the long, dim trail ahead
That stretches upward toward The Great Divide
- Charles Badger Clark, Jr.

57/366

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
- Anthony Brandt

56/366

"Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow,
May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow."
- Author Unknown

55/366

"Sit tall in the saddle hold your head up high,
keep your eyes fixed where the trail meets the sky
and live like you ain't afraid to die, don't be scared
just enjoy your ride."
- Chris LeDoux

rest in peace, my uncle, John Sharkey

54/366

I will do my best to be
honest and fair,
friendly and helpful,
considerate and caring,
courageous and strong, and
responsible for what I say and do,
and to respect myself and others,
respect authority,
use resources wisely,
make the world a better place, and
be a sister to every Girl Scout.
- The Girl Scout Law

53/366

Carla Jean Moss: "You don't have to do this."
Anton Chigurh: "Everybody says that."
- from No Country For Old Men

52/366

"You may never know what results come of your action,
but if you do nothing there will be no result."
- Mahatma Gandhi

51/366

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius

50/366

"You do anything long enough to escape the habit
of living until the escape becomes the habit."
- David Ryan

49/366

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an
organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

48/366

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter
and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
- Abraham Lincoln
read more about this burned car here.

47/366

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
This lovely bench was our Valentine's gift from my parents. Since we are re-working our front porch, they wanted to help by adding a comfortable place to sit. I love it.

46/366

"What you need to know about the past is that no matter what has happened, it has all worked together to bring you to this very moment. And this is the moment you can choose to make everything new. Right now."
- Author Unknown

45/366

"A hundred hearts would be too few
to carry all my love for you."
- Author Unknown

44/366

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming,
frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything."
- Anatole France

43/366

"Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt
revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand
against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right
hand shall save me."
- Psalm 138:7

42/366

"It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy."
- Chinese Proverb

41/366

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
- Groucho Marx

40/366

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
- Joseph Campbell

39/366

"I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me."
- spoken by character Cecilia Tallis in Atonement

38/366

"He sido bendecida porque tú me amas"
- Unknown
translation: I have been blessed because you love me.

37/366

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve
into the complete person you were intended to be."
- Oprah Winfrey

36/366

"If your head tells you one thing, and your heart
tells you another, before you do anything, you should
first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart"
- Marilyn vos Savant

35/366

"Of winter's lifeless world each tree
Now seems a perfect part;
Yet each one holds summer's secret
Deep down within its heart."
- Charles G. Stater

34/366

"Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces
which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation."
- Albert Einstein

33/366

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.
When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."
- Buddha

32/366

"There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet!
No one can get at it except for me!"
- spoken by character Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood