Lazy blogging tonight after a wearying weekend dealing with Reuben in housewrecking mode. Now that it’s clear that we’re neither going to sling Rosie into the toybox with the rest of the recreational debris nor send her back to whence she came, he’s decided on diversionary tactics. He’s breezily confident at the moment that, as we veer between unstinting admiration & dry-mouthed horror, we’ll come to our senses & leave her in the supermarket.
MATTERS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES
Following up the comments arising from STUFF WE ALREADY KNOW, a few more aphorisms, these culled from the Know Thyself Archive.
Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is. -- Sheldon Kopp
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. -- Carl Rogers
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be. -- Fannie Brice
Men and women are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is the habitual thought that frames itself into our life. It affects us even more than our intimate social relations do. Our confidential friends have not so much to do in shaping our lives as the thoughts which we harbor. -- J.W. Teal
Kwitchyerbellyakin. -- Irish saying (possibly)
Take pride in how far you have come, have faith in how far you can go. -- Anonymous
We know what we are, but know not what we may become. - William Shakespeare
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed.- Kate Halverson
Be honorable with yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. -- Welsh Proverb
Enlarge your consciousness. If your consciousness is small, you will experience smallness in every department of your life. -- Robert Pante
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. -- William Shakespeare
10:42:38 PM 
|
