What is life…?
As I continue to look for and select quotes that “speak to me,” I find sharing them with you to be really satisfying! See which one speaks to you! Which of these resonates with you the most? Do you have a favorite saying […]
Money is..?
I read somewhere that money is “frozen time.” Interesting idea! It’s a slightly different metaphor than I had run across before. What it seems to mean is that the “stuff” we buy is free-what we pay for is the people’s time to mine/grow/manufacture/ finance/manage/transport the free stuff to us. And the paycheck we get is […]
Debunking the Popeye myth and others…
Popeye, with his odd accent and improbable forearms, used spinach to great effect as it gave him his strength. But why did Popeye eat so much spinach? What was the reason for his obsession with spinach? The truth began more than fifty years earlier. Back in 1870, Erich von Wolf, a German chemist, examined the […]
How I Spent My Summer Vacation…
I remember well having to write paragraphs during the first week of grade school about how I spent my summer vacation, and I bet you do too! Over the following years, my vacations had gotten shorter. They dropped from three months to a week to three day weekends! Now from the view of retirement age, I […]
Which one would you choose?
It’s the last Sunday of the month, a time I look forward to because it’s when I get to share some of my favorite life quotes! There are so many great thoughts as well as so many great images to go with them, that I do find it difficult to limit myself to just eight of them […]
Enjoying the Dog Days of Summer!
Sometimes we complain about how warm it can get here in the valley! But we do know that it is the “dog days” of summer! Our lethargic and lazy feelings are historically validated by the ancient Egyptians and Romans, as they marked that the dog star Sirius in the constellation Canis Major AND the sun were both […]
Do you know a “southpaw” or are you one?
In commemoration of International Left Handers Day on August 13, I’d like to give all of us southpaws kudos! The tag line is: Celebrate your right to be left-handed! The day August 13th is meant to promote awareness of the inconveniences facing left-handers in a predominantly right-handed world. It celebrates our uniqueness and difference-we […]
How do you perceive that glass of yours?
We’re all familiar with the metaphorical story of two people looking at the same glass and one perceiving it as half-full while the other sees it as half-empty. And, we often miss the point, as shown in this note! But it’s still a valuable exercise to really observe our minds and notice whether we’re engaged […]
Quotes to live by…
It’s really fun for me to look for and select just 8 quotes for this end of the month blog post. This is my third post and if you’d like to check out the other two postings go to: http://fot.aue.mybluehost.me/in-celebration/ for June’s post and to http://fot.aue.mybluehost.me/life-is/ for May’s. That will give you 16 more possible favorites! Here again are […]
A statue to the boll weevil?!
The tiny town of Enterprise, Alabama, is famous for its Boll Weevil Monument, a large monument of a woman holding a boll weevil, located in the middle of Main St. The insect decimated the cotton crops of the South in the early 1900s, which was a devastating blow to the farmers. The statue has a […]