Togetherness against all odds!

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools, " - Martin Luther King, Jr.

SWEEPING OUR CONSCIENCE CLEAN!

“Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A LOT CAN HAPPEN OVER A CUPPA OF COFFEE!

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.  ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891

A PRINCELY PLATTER!

"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook,"

 - Julia Child

CURIOSITY!

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”

- Albert Einstein

A bite off my Bagel!

A bagel is a doughnut with the sin removed.  ~George Rosenbaum

Rustling under the weight of a thoughtless step!

"And the leaves that are green turn to brown

And they wither with the wind

And they crumble in your hand"

Paul Simon

Flowers on my walking path! - 2

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

Flowers on my walking path! - 1

I will be the gladdest thing

Under the sun!

I will touch a hundred flowers

And not pick one.

~Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"

The Pie perishes!

“To a foreigner a Yankee is an American. To an American a Yankee is a Northerner. To a Northerner a Yankee is a New Englander. To a New Englander a Yankee is a Vermonter. To a Vermonter a Yankee is a person who eats apple pie for breakfast.” - (Traditional saying) Michael Owen Jones - Journal of American Folklore (Spring 2007)