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Fun and Inspiration

Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps, then, if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar of empires and nations, a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope.

-- Albert Camus

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals deep inside of us there's something valuable ... Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any other experience that reveals the human spirit.
-- e.e. cummings

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.
--Rachel Carson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
-- Teddy Roosevelt

Mine is the mysticism of everyday life, of the heaped laundry and the bruised toe, of overcooked broccoli and leaves spangled with dew, of sunrise and sorrow, laughter and linguine, music and mold. This everyday mysticism requires no special powers, only imagination, a doting and practiced attention to the ordinary, a willingness to be surprised by grace. -- Philip Simmons, from "Learning to Fall"

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of your heart broken all the way open.
-- Gangaji

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
--Audre Lord

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

-- Bertrand Russell

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-- William James

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"Nobody sees a flower

really it is so small

we haven't time

and to see takes time

like to have a friend takes time."

--- Georgia O'Keefe

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

Our Dog Ceili (pronounced Kay-lee)

Matt and Liz with Ceili

Matt and Liz in New Zealand

Me and Mom hot tubbing in Florida

My big brother Bob with Juliana, his first grandchild