"You're never a failure until you stop trying."

- Mike Ditka

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

- Henry David Thoreau

The satisfaction of a good cry

Isidore of Seville, in interpreting the Psalms in the seventh century, seconded the idea that tears produce satiety. "Lamenting," he wrote, "is the food of souls."

-- Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears

I am "card correspondence challenged." Can't seem to get a handle on the sending of cards to properly acknowledge people and events. When I should send a nice thank you, get well, sympathy or birthday card I have the thought but then never get around to doing it. Email saves me on the birthday thing most of the time. But on the paper card front, I literally have about a 10% success rate. If you are one of those that I have snubbed in this way over the years, please don't take it personally. I am an equal opportunity snubber!

August Rush

Just saw a beautiful movie..."August Rush." Unrealistic...but who cares? Great music and so heart-warming.

Name dropping...

My very good friend, Mike, and his wife are two of the producers of the new hit show "Rock of Ages" that just opened on Broadway recently. Ya...they just had dinner last night before the show with Tommy Shaw and Kevin Cronin. Critics are raving about it. Some are making Tony award predictions. That's right...MY friend.

Addendum 5/18: the show has now received 5 Tony nominations!

I love Spring, I love a full moon and Easter is my favorite holiday. Last week included all three. But still the best part of the week was time with my extended family. It had been too long...almost as long as the wait for Spring to come back. We need to not let that happen!

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

~ Socrates

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

- Sarah Williams

Quote of the Day

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once."

Samuel Smiles

I very much need to take this advice right now!

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Nelson Mandela

Winter Jam

Toby Mac was fabulous at the Winter Jam concert on Thursday!

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."

~Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

~ C. S. Lewis

"There is nothing progressive about being pigheaded and refusing to admit a mistake."

Mere Christianity

*Now* it's natural?

Pizza Hut is now advertising its new pizza, "The Natural":

- All natural pepperoni
- All natural mozzarella cheese
- All natural sauce

What have they been serving up till now? I get that artificial cheese is just oil, not a dairy product. But what's in artificial pepperoni? And what is artificial sauce? Yikes.