Sweetie Pie

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Let dogs delight to bark,

 For God hath made them so.

-- Isaac Watts --

Snow Canyon's Calm

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"Truth is:

You don't know what is gonna happen tommorow. 

Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed." 

~ eminem - rapper ~
b.1972 - Marshall B. Mathers lll 

Vacationer's Bonnet

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“Beach sand, perfect tans.
Day walks, night talks.
Sleepless nights, pillow fights,
Spending every day__ 
With those who matter most.”

~Author Unknown~

Banded Ranter

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"Happier of happy though I be,

 Like them, I cannot take possession of the sky.

 Mount with a thoughtless impulse and, 

Wheel there__ one of a mighty multitude.

 Whose way of motion is a harmony and a dance magnificent."

~ William Wordsworth ~

Grace Rest Free

plucky plumose
...|...

"I come into the grace of wild things,

Who do not tax their repletion of lives..

With forthought in freedom__ of GRIEF."

~Wendell Berry~  b.1934

U.S. Poet,  The Peace of WildThings

Just Friends

~ Check ~
!.|.!

"For in the true nature of things,

If we rightly consider,

 Every green tree is far more glorious,

 Than if it were made of silver and gold."

~ Martin Luther ~
1483-1546

"A nut, for who?"

~YOU blinked~

-<|>-

"One of the most wonderful things in nature:

Is a glance of the eye;

It transcends speech;

It is the bodily symbol__ of identity."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grailer Ghosts

buzzer

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"He enjoys true leasure...

Who makes time to improve,

His soul's__ estate."

 ~ H.David Thoreau : 1817-1862 ~

(in/of R.Waldo Emerson's cabin)

Con-no-que-ness-ing's Lure

shedlands

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"Discernment is the son of good judgment,

Also the father of self-control.

When mixed within a clear conscience,

The ability to read a critics true motives__

Keeps one's conscience clear and at ease."

~ Criss Jami : poet born in 1987 ~

~and~

"Wealth within work, pleasure within conscience,

Science within humanity, knowledge within character,

Politics within principle, commerce within morality,

Worship within sacrifice, all deadly sins.. without."

~ Mahatma Gandhi : 1869-1948 ~

eFLY<>

flyrodBoy

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The gods do not deduct..

 From man's allotted span,

 The hours spent__ in fishing.

  ~Babylonian Proverb~

CandieComCorn

Cabeler
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 "Fiction is like a spider's web_
Perhaps, attached at all four corners?
Often this hold is scarcely perceptible..."

~ Adeline Virginia Woolf ~

Bagonia Orangonia

starstep
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“All I have seen teaches me,

To trust our Creator...

For all I have not seen.” 

~ R. W. Emerson ~

Doubled Deck Dandy

Water spirits
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"Now the God of Hope fills you,
With all joy and peace in believing.
That ye may abound in hope... yet,
Through the power of the Holy Ghost."

Romans 15:13

Paperwhite Christmas

frum Amy
|..|

"Things are goin' like all crazy..

  I’m not sure who's ta blame.

Everything's ah quick'a changin'

  I don’t feel like.. all's the same.

~

 I’m slippin' through some little cracks.

 I thought these floors were strong?

 I’m tryin' to find a right'nuf space..

 Where I can like just___ Bea'long?"

~ Anonymous ~

Kitchener's Dream

Sunny Steamer
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"The use of travelling is to regulate, imagination by reality: 

Instead of thinking how things may be__

 Just to see them, as they are."

 b.1709 ~ Samuel Johnson ~ 1784.d

Good Hearts

Angelical effort
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"Before the throne of the Almighty:
Man will be judged__ not by his acts,
But by his intentions!
 For God alone... reads our hearts."

~ Mahatma Gandhi ~

Bu(g)s Bu(d)s

Deterrent a'fuzz
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 Sermon on the Mount - material provisions conclusion:

 " Take therefore no thought for the morrow,

For the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

Sufficient unto the day__ is the EVIL thereof! "

Matthew 6:34 ~ New Testament ~ King James Version

Channel: STOP!

Deep rift
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" A human being is part of a whole: (called by us the Universe) partly limited in time and space.
We experience ourself, our thoughts our feelings, as something separated from the rest.
Kind of an optical delusion of consciousness; a kind of  prison restricting our personal desires.
This limits our affections for only a few persons nearest and dearest to us!  Our task must be:
To free ouselves from this limiting of prison by widening of circles of compassion;
To embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature... in its awe and beauty! "

 ~ Albert Einstein ~

Following "Me"

~Pooch~
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" Hereafter: in a better world than this...

I shall desire more love and knowledge__

Of YOU! "

 ~William Shakespeare ~

Bumbler

Poly-Hug
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 ~  Death: 

Is the only pure and beautiful conclusion...

Of great passion. ~

D.H. Lawrence ~ 1885-1930

White Knight (again)

Snow White
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"We must always remember that America is a great nation...
Not because of what government did for the people:
But because of what people did for themselves.. and for one another!"

Republican President ~ Richard M. Nixon  ~ Mea culpa

Turgid Tulip

Bulbious Vim
|IXXI|

"Consult not your fears... but your hopes and your dreams.

Think not about your frustrations... but about your unfulfilled potential.

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in...

But with what is still possible for you__ and so to DO!" 

~

Pope John XXIII ~ 1881-1963 

Needler's Eye

Hold of Gold
_.:|:._

"Nothing contributes so much:

To tranquilize the mind...

As a steady purpose!

A point on which the soul may fix__ 

One's intellectual eye."

~

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Ice House

Erie Bay
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" It is easy in the world, to live after the world's opinion;
It is easy in solitude, to live after our own;
But the great man is he who in the midst of the croud...
Keeps with perfect sweetness, the Independence of Solitude. "

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Self-Reliance on page 23

Chrome Days

Twin Mirrors
..(|)..

" Being over seventy: is like being engaged in a war.
All our friends are going or gone...
We survive amongst the dead and the dying__
As on a battlefield! "

 ~St. Jerome ~
Father of the Latin Church, 340?-420

de'Duckies

Mallard Mania
.:|:*:|:.

" All precious things, discover'd late: 

To those that seek them, issue forth__

For love in sequel works with fate...

And draws the veil'frum hidden worth!"

~

Alfred Tennyson ~ The Daydream

Jill's Joy

Eat or Play
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" Of all God's creatures there is only one,

That cannot be made the slave of the lash.

 That one is the cat!

 If man could be crossed with the cat__

 It would improve man -- but it would deteriorate:

 That CAT!! "
~

Mark Twain's ~ Notebook, 1894

Head's Up

Ant's Worries
.../\...

 " Eleanor Roosevelt understood: that every one of us, every day,

 has choices to make about the kind of person we are,

 and what we wish to become?

 You can decide to be someone who brings people together,

 Or you can fall prey... to those who wish to divide us.

 You can be someone who educates yourself, 

Or you can believe that being negative is clever

 And being cynical is fashionable?

 You have a choice! "

~

Hillary Rodham Clinton | b. October 26, 1947

Nicky

 'Good GOD- Aunt Jo'
~|~

“Truly, I say to you:

 Unless you turn and become like children...

 You will never enter the kingdom of heaven!

Whoever humbles himself like this child__

Is the greatest -- in the kingdom of heaven. "
~

Matthew 18:2-6

Mid-night's Fodderers

Dear-o-Deer
:|)*(|:

" For now:
 I ask no more...
 Than the justice__ Of Eating. "
~
~ Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda | Noble Prize Winner~

Su.spearior

Pristine Prayer
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"But hopes are:

 Shy Birds flying at a great distance,

 Seldom reached.. by the best of Guns."
~

 ~ John James Audubon ~

Dove.Love.Lost

Freeze Mate

" For all the cruelty and hardship of our world,

We are not mere prisoners of fate.

Our actions matter, and can bend history__

In the direction of... Justice! "

44th President ~ BARACK OBAMA ~ Nobel Lectur:2009

Inner~Limited

Color'n Darker

White'n Light
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" A man never discloses his own character__

So clearly: as when he describes... Another's. "

~ Jean Paul Richter ~

Venial:Vexations

Rippler's View
.oO0Oo.

" Up there in the immensity of the Cosmos,

 An inescapable perception awaits us. 

National boundaries are not evident,

When we view the Earth from space.

~ 

Fanatical ethnic, religious or national chauvinisms

 Are a little difficult to maintain... when we see our planet

As a fragile blue orb fading to become an inconspicuous

Point of light__ against the bastion and citadel of the stars. "

Doctor Carl Sagan ~ 1934-1996

'Pale Blue Dot'

Out-board Linkage

City of Bridges
|...|

“ This tension between the need to look deeper...

And the beauty in the immediacy of the world__
 Is what makes: [my] sculptures move. ”
~
 Reuben Heyday Margolin
Kinetic Sculptor & Artist

Mostly-|-Mossy

Cell Catch
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" Come to the edge, He said.
They said: We are afraid.
Come to the edge!, He said.
They came. He pushed them?
And: They flew! "
~
Guillaume Apollinaire ~ French poet

City First in 44

Spin to Win
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“ So much is said about the money that brings us here,

But it’s not money that you dream about__

When you are a kid with nothin':  You want to say,

'This is the best moment of my life',

But please... never like this 3-2 again! ”

~

"City Captain" Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany | b.1986

 "Defender of the New Elite"

Axial Leverings

Toppie's Tail
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 " We are just an advanced breed of monkeys,

On a minor planet, of a very average star...

 But we can understand the Universe__

 THAT: makes us something very special! "
~

 Dr. Stephen William Hawking  b.1942

Bacterial-Prevaders

With or Without
:(0):

" Minorities are the stale firmament__

While majorities are the darkness...

In which they float. "

Cold or Hot
.:|:.

 " Bacteria: keeps us from heaven, too puts us there. "
~
Dr. Martin H. Fischer ~ 1879-1962

Speeder's Respite

Friend's Lounge

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" Whoever is spared personal pain__ must feel oneself,
 Called to help__ in diminishing the pain of others.
 We must all carry our share of the misery...
Which lies upon all of our world! "

Dr. Albert Schweitzer ~ 1875-1965

|_Uncertain | Burden's_|

aPeel for Light

  .|^-^|.

“ You have only always to do what is right!

It will become easier by practice.

In the midst of your trials__ you will enjoy,

The pleasure of... an approving conscience. ”

~

" The doctrines and miricals of out Savior have required nearly two thousand years

 to convert but a small portion of the human race, and even among Christian nations,
 what gross errors still exist!  While we see the course of the final abolition 
of human slavery is still onward, and give it the aid of our prayers,
 let us leave the progress as well as the results in the hands of Him,
 who chooses to work by slow influences, and with Him a thousand years
...are but as a single day." 
~

  Letter of General Lee's to President Pierce... prior to The War.

General: Robert Edward Lee ~ (1807-1870)

Lil'Pecker Picks

Tree Tapper
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 "Those who dream by day...

Are cognizant of many more things,

Which escape those who__
Dream only by night!"

Edgar Allan Poe's ~ "Eleonora"