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"All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is a tree stump in the middle of a parking lot.

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"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith,
let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
- Abraham Lincoln
This photo was taken by my husband. He is in Arlington, VA for a business trip.

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"Beauty cannot be measured for the soul cannot be weighed."
- Teresa Murray

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"Here's to alcohol, the cause of—and solution to—all life's problems."
- Homer Simpson

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"Draw a crazy picture,
Write a nutty poem,
Sing a mumble-gumble song,
Whistle through your comb.
Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before."
- Shel Silverstein

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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but
it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
- Oscar Wilde

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"Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese."
- Billie Burke

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"If I had a single flower for every time I think about you,
I could walk forever in my garden."
- Claudia Ghandi

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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned
it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
- Thomas Edison

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"After silence, that which comes nearest to
expressing the inexpressible is music."
- Aldous Huxley

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"Ask not what fun does for you, but what you do for fun!"
- Author Unknown

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"Right is right, even if everyone is against it;
and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it."
- William Penn

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"Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks,
breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
- Mary Lou Cook

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"She who dies with the most shoes wins."
- Author Unknown
Sad things is... this isn't even half of them!

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"What we see depends mainly on what we look for..."
- Author Unknown

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"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you."
- Maori Proverb

July retrospective

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obsess
Pronunciation: \əb-ˈses, äb-\
Function: verb
1. to haunt or excessively preoccupy the mind of
2. to engage in obsessive thinking : become obsessed with an idea

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"Who do you love? Me or the thought of me?
Me or the thought of me?"
- lyrics to I Don't Trust Myself by John Mayer

"No I'm not the man I used to be lately
See you met me at an interesting time
If my past is any sign of your future
You should be warned before I let you inside"
- lyrics to I Don't Trust Myself by John Mayer

I could not choose which picture or which quote I liked the best. But since I had such and amazing time at the concert, I figured, why not 2 pictures today? They are both edited all up, because the quality of the pictures I was able to take was terrible.

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end;
if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth
only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
- C.S. Lewis

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"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
- Oscar Wilde

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husband: "I got you something."
(he always says this & its usually nothing for me)

me: "I doubt that."

he drops this on the table...

me: "oooh! You did get me something!!"

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"You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness."
- Author Unknown

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Mamma mia, here I go again
My my, how can I resist you?
Mamma mia, does it show again?
My my, just how much Ive missed you
Yes, I've been broken hearted
Blue since the day we parted
Why, why did I ever let you go?
Mamma mia, now I really know,
My my, I could never let you go.
- lyrics to Mamma Mia by ABBA

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“Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.”
- Chinese Proverbs

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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty.
Believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

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"Celebrate we will, because life is short but sweet for certain."
- lyrics to Two Step by Dave Matthews Band

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"The more you laugh, the longer you live."
- Author Unknown

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“Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
- Proverbs

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“A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way
that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard

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“This life as you live it now and have lived it, you will have to live again and again, times without number, and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and all the unspeakably small and great in your life must return to you and everything in the same series and sequence -- and in the same way this spider and this moonlight among the trees, and this same way this moment and I myself. The eternal hour glass of existence will be turned again and again -- and you with it, you dust of dust!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

this was last night's moon... I didn't post it last night, because I had already taken another picture. Oh well. You get it today.

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“Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on."
- Budd Schulberg

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"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what
you like and let the food fight it out inside."
- Mark Twain
Husband made ciabatta bread pizzas!!

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"Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues."
- Hugh Prather
I have been obsessed lately with the fact that I have lots of arm hair. Do I have a lot more than normal? I think I do.

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"Love one another and you will be happy.
It's as simple and as difficult as that."
- Michael Tautz

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"Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's
good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much
you can do about it but carry an umbrella."
- Pepper Giardino

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"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Kenji Miyazawa

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"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."
- Dr. Seuss

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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but
sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
- Author Unknown

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"In the end, it will all be ok.
If it's not ok, then it's not the end!"
- Jason Castro

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"Love is not something tied to good times in life.
Love is the string that keeps life tied together when the bad times come."
- Author Unknown

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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you
just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will
come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
- Anne Lamott

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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
- Russel Baker

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"Children think not of what is past, nor
what is to come, but enjoy the present time,
which few of us do."
- Jean DeLa Bruyere

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"Freedom consists not in doing what we like,
but in having the right to do what we ought."
- Pope John Paul II

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"Never let yesterday's disappointments overshadow tomorrow's dreams."
- Author Unknown

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"All dreams come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
- Author Unknown
cheating today... I had too many pictures for the American Idol concert last night. This is me & Betsy Castro. This gorgeous lady gave birth to the beautiful man in the picture right below this, THE Jason Castro. Yes, I met his mom. I met his brother & sister too!!

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idol
Pronunciation: \ˈī-dəl\
Function: noun
1: a representation or symbol of an object of worship
2: an object of extreme devotion