Clear that desk!

I totally agree with this work flow concept shared on 43 folders. Without this habit, my work life would be chaos.

"A practice of clearing your workspace and your inbox every night does more than foster a clean desk; it demands that you evaluate your progress, review your immediate landscape, and then always find some kind of formal caesura to your work. The day must end at some point."

Now, if only I could be as good about that at home.

Word of the Day

lionize \LY-uh-nyz\, transitive verb:
To treat or regard as an object of great interest or importance.

"There is good reason to be wary, and to pay some attention to that man behind the curtain -- or, if anyone tries to sell you one, to be cautious about lionizing "some pig" -- however terrific, radiant, and humble -- in a poke."
--Marjorie B. Garber, Symptoms of Culture

Word of the Day

suffuse \suh-FYOOZ\, transitive verb:
To spread through or over in the manner of fluid or light; to flush.

Have you ever felt happiness suffuse all the cells in your body and a smile light up your face?
--Sarabjit Singh, "Queen of the Hills," India Currents, November 30, 1996

Like an angel or an earthquake, it isn't there and then it is; it doesn't steal over us and suffuse us with a festive spirit like the gradual effects of alcohol or good deeds.
--Barbara Peters Smith, "Gladness descends on her home," Sarasota Herald Tribune, December 27, 2003

Quotation for Wednesday, May 25, 2005:

"There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."

That Hideous Strength

Quotation for Monday, May 23, 2005:

"We have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

Goodbye, Cody

I will miss you, my sweet, handsome boy. :(

First car

1980 Mustang Coupe

I don't have a picture of me with it. You'll just have to take my word for it.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

For Mother's Day, my son took me to see "Hitchhiker's Guide..." Lots of fun, especially since I loved the book. One caution: if you haven't read the book, you just might not enjoy the movie as much.
I recommend reading the book first!

Yes...weird is spelled weird

weird (wîrd)
adj. weird·er, weird·est

1. Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
2. Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.

I know it may seem weird to some of you, but this is the correct spelling. I'm amazed at how many people are mistaken on that one. Just remember...weird is spelled weird. There.
Thank you.

Heaven's Little Angels

I'm so very, very proud of my beautiful, wonderful, amazing choir! They were incredibly fabulous last night in their concert. I just can't say enough about how great they are.

Did I mention I'm proud?

Word of the Day

intransigent \in-TRAN-suh-juhnt; -zuh-\, adjective:
Refusing to compromise; uncompromising.

He was intransigent at times, and almost playfully yielding at others.
--"The Decline and Fall of a Sure Thing," New York Times, September 10, 1989

Sometimes I was intransigent, and proud of it. At other times I seemed to myself to be nearly devoid of any character at all, timid, uncertain, without will.
--Edward W. Said, Out of Place: A Memoir

The dispute brewed through the summer as Nehru remained intransigent and U.S. officials confronted an unbending legal mandate.
--George Perkovich, India's Nuclear Bomb

Out of the Ordinary

It's all just a dream that You slowly reveal
And You promised You're making me Real

Now hope is the difference for all who believe
and hope gives me strength where I stand
The difference is coming alive in me
as all the days go by
How the time flies by

It's all just a dream that You slowly reveal
and I know that You're drawing me near
Isn't it right, and isn't it good
How Your love makes me Real

- Out of the Grey

Quotation for Friday, April 22, 2005:

No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep on picking ourselves up each time. We shall of course be very muddy and tattered children by the time we reach home, but the bathrooms are all ready, the towels put out, and the clean clothes in the airing cupboard. The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give it up. It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us: it is the very sign of His presence.

The Problem of Pain
C. S. Lewis

Remembering Jeanne

It's been two years today that Jeanne's been gone from us.
I love you and miss you very much, my friend.

Shameless Commerce

I want this for Mother's Day!

Quotation for Friday, April 15, 2005:

"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"

Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis

Quotation for April 11, 2005

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

The Problem of Pain
(C.S. Lewis)

Life long friendship

An excerpt from "No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency,"

"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there is never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel."

Sleeping Bear Dunes

I climbed the Sleeping Bear Dunes last weekend. You have to earn the view with a long, hard climb, but it's absolutely beautiful and worth the work.

Quotation for Monday, April 4, 2005

"For the believer there are no questions; for the non-believer there are no answers."

source unknown

(interesting concept...trying to decide if I quite agree with it)