They say that you’re only as old as you feel, and there’s a certain amount of truth in that. But sometimes it’s a struggle to be young when the calendar – and all around us – say “old”. Still, there’s something positive to be said for the thought that “In the end, it was never about them.” (If I can find the rest of that poem, I’ll try to get it posted here soon. It’s well worth a thoughtful reading.

Every once in a while I stumble upon that most fascinating of web pages … a quotes page. I’m in a generous mood today, so I’m going to share this one with you. The quotes seem selected with just a hint of an edge to them, a tiny scent of an acid wit and come accompanied by linocuts which you can purchase, if you so wish.

The link above is well into the middle of the site … be sure to scroll backwards as well as ahead.

Here’s a teaser:

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

- George Bernard Shaw

After this has been up a few days as an ordinary post, I think that I’ll make it permanent page and every Friday pass along the best quote I’ve encountered during the preceding week.

I just had a really good day that I am thankful for. It was busy, productive, included good friends, a couple of laughs and some cookies.

What’s not to like about a day like that?

Click here to read on, my friend.

My goal of returning this Jaguar to showroom quality is complicated by the need to drive it, at least temporarily, modest funding for the project, general lack of cluefulness and cold weather with no place to work on it indoors.

It also wouldn’t hurt if I had a hoist and a machine shop in my garage and all that other junk out of it. Hmm … maybe if I kill my lawn I can get rid of the mower, string trimmer, lawn vacuum, rakes, shovels and so on. Oh … and that Geo Metro I keep promising myself to fix up.

Nah, I think you have to put the hoist in when the foundation goes down … and, besides which, I’ve only got about a 7’ ceiling in the garage.

I can foresee some awkward conversations with the insurance company if I raised the hoist high enough to work under — and with the chiropractor if I didn’t.

Click here to read on, my friend.

Just a few weeks ago NASA smacked the moon with an old space ship they no longer wanted and declared that they saw water, 25 whole gallons of it, in the resulting plume of ejected material. Now

A website based in India has reported researchers with the Chandrayaan-1 mission may have found “signs of life in some form or the other on the Moon.” http://bit.ly/6veERB

I’ve just got to wonder how many times we can smack the moon with projectiles before they start shooting back?

(NB for the humor impaired: This is actually a gentle dig at the “we are not alone crowd”. Of course, we’re not alone you sillies … there’s over 7 billion of us happily reproducing on this increasingly crowded planet. Of these, it would appear that roughly every10th one is armed to the teeth and willing to shoot in whatever direction some politician tells them to. Oh, and there are a few million homosexuals who, thankfully, don’t reproduce; although some of them can shoot.

Not to mention God and his faithful created spirit creatures who are shortly going to put an end to all of this gunfire nonsense. Not that you believe that God exists … but that’s okay, it’s not a requirement.)

I’ve put together about 1,050 quotes – with more on the way – that randomly surface every few seconds in the right hand column of this page. By now, certainly you’ve noticed them.

Some of them, narcissistic*, are my own words wrapped around my own thoughts. Others are from the great lights of mankind or from the Christian scriptures. A few were scavenged from the rubble pile of history before they could be covered completely over. They come from the little read, seldom quoted, list of thinkers.

And I have no desire to get ugly. But I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. — Ogden Nash, "Seeing Eye to Eye Is Believing"

I’m curious to know which of these have sparked an “aha” moment for you?

Click here to read on, my friend.

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I just Stumbled Upon Abstruse Goose where the linked cartoon is about an absurdity of time travel.

The thought that time travel might be a one-way street, though, got me to contemplating the potential consequences for embarking on such a journey Click here to read on, my friend.

I think I’ve found the reason why church attendance is dropping.

Sometimes when people ask me how I make my living, I tell them that I am a free-lance writer. It just seems more polite than telling them that, since I’m not hitting them up to pay my bills, how I make my living is none of their business.

If they weren’t such twits, I’d give them the URL to come here and see me at work. But they are. So I don’t. And that’s my contribution toward making the internet a safer place for all of us.

How do YOU keep the lambs out of the piranha pit? (Or do you just let natural selection run its course?

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