Quote of the Day “The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.” – Henry Ward Beecher
Red & Walnut Redemption
Final Coats and Tidying Up
Quote of the Day “Every fear is compounded in moments where you think failure rules the day. Remember that. Let each failure stand or fall on its own. They are not always linked.” – Carl Lentz, “Own the Moment.”
Lines Blocked and Pipes Clogged
Quote of the Day “Please remind yourself that nobody is interested in your potential. Potential has never changed the world. I don’t think the God who created you is interested in your potential. I think the God that I believe
Rock-Tumblin’ Grin
Quote of the Day “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Stomping Out 2018
Quote of the Day “Something else I want you to know: how glad I am, Constant Reader, that we’re both still here. Cool, isn’t it?” ― Stephen King, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams.
Bits and Bulbs
Quote of the Day “People love to say, ‘Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.’ What they don’t say is, ‘And it would be nice
Stairway to the Holiday’s End
Quote of the Day “Pianist Glenn Gould, an eccentric genius who abruptly stopped giving concerts in 1964; he had retreated into the solitude of the studio and told an interviewer, ‘I’ve always had a sort of intuition that for every
Un-Phased and Drywalled
Quote of the Day “Mornings are the best chance we get, every day, to recall our solitude. They are brief glimpses into a default mindset that arises before the world pours too much noise into our eyes and ears. Most
A Tumble in the Rough
Quote of the Day “Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract.
8-Inch Magic
Quote of the Day “Perhaps you can judge the inner health of a land by the capacity of its people to do nothing—to lie abed musing, to amble about aimlessly, to sit having coffee—because whoever can do nothing, letting his