We all need a break now and then - something to "refresh the palate" if you will. Since I don't have any sorbet handy, I'll do the next best thing - photos, quotes, humor, and whatever the heck I feel like throwing into the mix.
Come on in, sit down, and relax a bit... :)
First off, I think I'll throw in one of my favorite clips from Countdown - Keith had been talking to Christian Finnegan about the Republicans in Congress trying to pass a bill to make animal-human hybrids illegal. Well... we knew the GOP was a little strange!
The hand-off to Rachel Maddow veered off into a very interesting topic, but I'll just let you watch for yourselves.
A few photos from Seattle, of fall color:
And a few quotes thrown in here and there, at random....
"Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead." - Anonymous
"When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken, or cease to be honest." - Anonymous
And now, for a little Bugs Bunny - because, hey... who doesn't like the rabbit??
More fall color: :)
"As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." - Josh Billings
A clip from the Carol Burnett show.... poor quality video, but still, it's a good bit of comedy, if you ask me. :)
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better," Roosevelt said as he prepared another run for the White House. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
"We can have a democratic society or we can have the concentration of great wealth in the hands of the few. We cannot have both." - Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice from 1916-1939
A few photos of a warmer time... for those who are tired of the cold!
Sunrise over Lake Toho:
"My religion is kindness . . . ." - Fourteenth Dali Lama of Tibet
"If you want to live in a better world, it starts with you." - Timothy White
Now for some more comedy... a piece that always cracks me up. Reverend Jim goes to get his driver's license.
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." - Kahlil Gibran
Something soothing...
"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing." - Delacroix
A sunset storm over Downtown Disney - thunder and lightning mixed with a fantastic sunset - quite a day.
"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it." - John Donne
To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking."--Hugh Downs
"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside of it." - Albert Einstein
And of course, a little drama... because what fun would a diary without just a touch of drama be, really? :)
"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing." - Harriet Braiker
"The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle
And just to make sure I'm not forgetting anything....
"I do know without fear of contradiction what the definition of life is and it is 12 words long. 'Life is defined by how much you improve the lives of others.' " - Keith Olbermann