I know that we say every year that the beast that is retail starts us towards the Christmas season earlier and earlier. This year, though, it seems like I really noticed it. I was so excited about Christmas early this year. However, it seems like it's seeped away a bit. We've had a lot going on with our family so I suppose that might explain it. It was bad enough that I almost decided not to put my tree up or decorate - that's extreme. However, I did it anyway and I'm so glad.
Now I'm trying to get back into the spirit of things. I'm getting there. I think it would help if it snowed!
Anyway, I've got lots on my mind - thoughts swirling and whirling - I want to write more, but don't feel able to at the moment. So strange.
Hopefully I'll write more soon.
14 Days till Christmas!
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Now - here is my secret:
I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
Douglas Coupland
I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
Douglas Coupland
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It's not what you know, it's what you do with what you know.
Jim and Jean Stephens
It's more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words, but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'
Winnie the Pooh
If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful.
Jeanne, 8 years old
God loves you and has a difficult plan for your life.
Mark Galli
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
Ever wonder if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charles M. Schulz
Jim and Jean Stephens
It's more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words, but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'
Winnie the Pooh
If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful.
Jeanne, 8 years old
God loves you and has a difficult plan for your life.
Mark Galli
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Sir Francis Bacon
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
Ever wonder if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
Charles M. Schulz
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Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.
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Future computers may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
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Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
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When the heart overflows, it comes out through the mouth.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.
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One finger can not lift a pebble.
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What you see in others has more to do with who you are than with who other people are.
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Ethics is how we behave when we decide we belong together.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that.
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A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
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