The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.



- Robert Stuberg

"I don't vote. Two reasons. First of all it's meaningless; this country was
bought and sold a long time ago. Secondly, I believe if you vote, you have
no right to complain. People like to twist that around - they say, 'If you
don't vote, you have no right to complain', but where's the logic in that?
If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who
screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused
the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain. I, on the
other hand, who did not vote, who in fact did not even leave the house on
election day, am in no way responsible for what these people have done and
have every right to complain about the mess you created that I had nothing
to do with."


-- George Carlin

"The sad truth is, once the humans get out of the picture, the outlook
starts to get a lot better."

- John Orrock, conservation biologist at the
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara,
California

Self-Explanatory

" Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD… and if you crash then crash well. Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done-a paper well-written, a project thoroughly completed, a play well-performed. If you must wipe the snot from your 3-year old's nose, don't be disgusted if the Kleenex didn't catch it all… because soon he'll be wiping his own. If you've recently experienced loss, then GRIEVE. And Grieve well. At the table with friends and family, LAUGH. If you're eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke. And if you eat, then SMELL. The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven. And TASTE. Taste every ounce of flavor. Taste every ounce of friendship. Taste every ounce of Life. Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift."

- Kyle Lake, "Sermon"

Indomitable Words of Wisdom

...when I was younger, I thought what I needed was to be married with children; now I know that all I really needed was a motorcycle and lots of poontang!...


-my Significant Other

Just a thought...

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themseleves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest. Difficult tasks are a priviledge to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, it's finally happened...

...with the appointment of Tony Snow of Faux News, now there is absolutely no boundaries between business and government. This so-called Administration is a clusterfuck of gargantuan proportions. The best thing Bushco could do now is have a mass resignation. His chickens are finally coming home to roost; too late for the U.S. to salvage any kind of dignity as a nation. We have become the world's joke-"Do as I say, not as I do" has become our motto. As long as the drowsy masses get their fixes of whatever life anesthetic they happen to be addicted to-TV, food, drink, any number of drugs-legal or illegal, shopping, or whatever-our fearless leaders will continue to sell us out and gut this once-great nation of any kind of humanity at all.

Bush=

Bush & Co. still isn't impeached yet?


Gawd. What are we waiting for???

"All of nature is silent witness to mankind's destruction of the good earth."

- me

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WISDOM

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

E. S. Bouton

"Man, I am so glad Christmas is over; look at this hat...!"

A few cheery predictions for 2006

Class war, indeed...