"If Candlemas Day be fair and bright; 
Come Winter, have another flight. 
If Candlemas brings clouds and rain; 
go wit and come not again." 

-- medieval English proverb  

Word is that Punxsutawney Phil predicts six more weeks of Winter, at least in Pennsylvania.  I haven't yet heard what New Mexican prairie dogs have to say on the subject.  Much as I'm twitching in anticipation of the Burgeoning Season, and much sympathy as I have for those still getting their (electrical) power back after the recent mid-continental storms, we really do need some more Winter! 

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For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. 

-Doug Larson

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Famous quites from famous (or not) people can be interpreted in lots of ways, I'm reminded myself as I mull over a completely different one.  But these spoke to me, this morning: 

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."

and 

"There is nothing more galling to angry people than the
coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen."

(which gives me some measure of comfort when I'm clinging desperately to what I consider to be the "high road") 

Both from

Alexandre Dumas, père, 1802 - 1870


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http://esoterica.bichaunt.org/

The second item under "Practical Matters" includes much information that may be useful under a variety of circumstances. 

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I had already learned from more than a decade of political
life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did,
so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
- Rosalynn Carter

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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens
to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to
the same person?
- François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, 1613 - 1680

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"It is not how old you are, but how you are old."
-Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
-Dennis Potter, dramatist (1935-1994)

Current Mood: refreshed

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
-Mignon McLaughlin, journalist and author (1913-1983)

Current Mood: indescribable

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also
internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you
refuse to hate him.
-Martin Luther King, Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)

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