August 2010
21 posts
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Princess | Photo of the Day
Photo by: Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
The worst illness of our time is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved. ~Princess Diana
Thirteen years ago.
I had an old used console television in my room, I don’t remember if I had cable; probably not. I lived in government housing in a small town in Alabama. A single mom with three kids, I had not a clue in the...
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Mahogany Tree | Photo of the Day
Mahogany Tree, Key Largo, Florida 1975
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~Willa Cather, 1913
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Motivation
When you have a thought of something you’d like to do/accomplish/be and then after a bit more thought/research/time you determine that there are entirely too many other people in the field and you think it’s not worth it even though you are passionate about it; think about this:
The concept of the assembly line was invented by Eli Whitney in the 1790s.
A little over 100 years later,...
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Flying Buttresses of Notre Dame | Photo of the Day
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ~Julia Morgan
Sometimes I think we only see the beauty of the whole and by doing so we miss the interesting and common; the connection something has with other things is missed.
This is part of a famous building: Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Completed in 1345, it is one of the first buildings in the world to use the...
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(from Flowing Data)
Does anyone else think this is just a clusterfuck waiting to happen? You watch… everyone will be in such a rush to ‘claim’ some part of the Arctic and then as soon as they find some vast patch of something we want (or worse don’t want) under or on “their land” the blame and clean up will cost whichever country more than they have and thus...
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Utensils and Spices | Photo of the Day
Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ~Harriet van Horne
Implements of mischief.
I think I am more comfortable in the kitchen than in any other room in my house. I create mischief, masterpieces and misfortunes all done with love. Nothing makes me happier than to make others happy.
This photo was taken sometime in 1940s and is part of the Library of...
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Russian Chapel | Photo of the Day
Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. But, I have found, usually, our spirits can be replenished in places where someone has replenished their own. There are sacred places to be found everywhere. Some buildings are built for this. Nothing needs to be said inside their doors; silence is the sermon.
This photograph, taken in 1909,...
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Bridge | Photo of the Day
Praise the bridge that carried you over. ~George Colman
This bridge is one I walk across every day while I’m walking dogs. It crosses a creek of sorts; man-made to be sure, it’s basically a drainage ditch, yet, instead of concrete, river rock was used. It’s very pretty. In the spring when the rains come and the snow melts, the water rushes under there deep and swift; the...
debbiestier: Retro →
Adding How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie to my Top 10 List of Business Books.
Think of this as the meat and potatoes of business books …… Seriously, a must read.
First published in 1937, it’s still relevant — but with retro appeal. It’s no accident that it has sold…
One of my original favorites too.
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Flower Doorway | Photo of the Day
The Lockless Door by Robert Frost
It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I though of the door
With no lock to lock.
I blew out the light,
I tip-toed the floor,
And raised both hands
In prayer to the door.
But the knock came again.
My window was wide;
I climbed on the sill
And descended outside.
Back over the sill
I bade a ‘Come in’
To whatever...
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Eye | Photo of the Day
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend told me this the other day:
“I feel it may be our lot in life to now and forever remain old souls. I dislike that term even though it is popular vernacular. Better to say that I believe, upbringing aside, that regardless of the situations, we would choose the path of no drama and to the holding of honor and...
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Juneau Icefield | Photo of the Day
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. ~John Muir
This picture of part of the Juneau Icefield was taken by my daughter, Stephanie.
Southeast Alaska is the most beautiful place I have ever been. Awe. That is the only word to describe what you see, everywhere.
It is every bit as beautiful as the pictures you’ve seen.
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Sleep | Photo of the Day
I didn’t take this photo. It was taken in McIntosh County, Oklahoma around 1939. This scene, however, has taken place a myriad of times in a multitude of places.
I wish, as adults, we could sleep like children: the kind of sleep so deep that if someone picked you up and moved you to the other room, you wouldn’t wake.
I believe we don’t get enough sleep. I believe that...
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Navarre Beach Boardwalk | Photo of the Day
Hurricane Ivan was the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfall on the U.S. mainland in Gulf Shores, Alabama on September 16, as a Category 3. This was taken the day after Ivan’s landfall. Photo of Navarre Beach showing the new park that was nearing completion, or what was left of it.
I lived not too far from there, although a decade earlier.
This...
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Car Lot | Photo of the Day
“Development becomes compulsive. …It is fairly easy for man to assert his mastery over his earthly environment, but once he has asserted that mastery he has to go on exercising it no matter where the exercise takes him. The age of applied technology has one terrible aspect— each new technique has to be exploited to its absolute limit, until man becomes the victim of his own...
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Road out of Romney, WV | Photo of The Day
I did not take this picture. It is by John Vachon one of many photographers recruited by Roy Stryker who headed the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. He launched the documentary photography movement which documented the conditions of rural America in the 1930-40s.
Looking at this, it sparks memory. I remember seeing roads like this...
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25 | photo of the day
The grass may be dead from the excessive heat as of late, but that is no indication that beauty is dying: Black-eyed Susans, Cacti, Fireplug…all thriving and colorful.
-taken with my iPhone- …from the shade.
ReBranding 101
“New Moon in my 11th House of SOCIAL NETWORKING”?!
I believe traditionally it’s my 11th house of FRIENDSHIPS.
Way to re-brand, Mr. Astrologer.
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Poem | Sunday 8.8.10 am
The window shade was open.
Sleeping under the window, she lies there, silently.
The woods outside the window recall a Sleeping Beauty or a Snow White in all their woodland glory. Sleeping, she lies there, silently.
Soft skin.
Golden hair.
So sweet, I want pick her up in my arms and hold her so close we could burst into love.
The size doesn’t matter; two and a half feet tall or five and...
