quote

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean

today's quote

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Well-behaved women seldom make history." -- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

from James Monroe

"Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties." --Inaugural address of 1817

Quote

“I don’t think about whether people will remember me or not. I’ve been an okay person. I’ve learned a lot. I’ve taught people a thing or two. That’s what’s important.”
– Julia Child

quote

"If you are distressed by anything external,

the pain is not due to the thing itself

but to your own estimate of it; and this you have

the power to revoke at any moment."

--Marcus Aurelius

Notes from inside my current two books

from One Hundred Years of Goddamn Reading:
"The town, instead of doubting her innocence, pitied her candor."

"...the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

the other one is pronounced like You-jhen-EE Grrlrrlranday (right??)

p.s. bad neighbors SUCK SUCK SUCK a lot!!!