Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus



The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. ~David Russell



We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. ~Japanese Proverb



You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. ~Author Unknown



Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown



Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark. ~Rabindranath Tagore

New Hope for a Cure

I received this from my friend, Sujatha at Blogpourri , this morning and we're both posting the information with the hope of spreading the word of hope for a cure for HIV.

Covalent Immunology Foundation and the Possibility of a New HIV Vaccine
Sujatha at Fluff-n-Stuff asked me to take up a tag about the Covalent Immunology Foundation and the work they are doing to develop a new HIV vaccine. From Sujatha's post:

As Dr. Paul says [the scientist behind the Foundation's work] [...], the 'abzyme' approach to attacking the virus at the special weak point could pave the way to developing a low-cost and highly effective approach to attacking the HIV virus, and in the long run, other deadly or debilitating viruses. (More information is available at the website for the Covalent Immunology Foundation.)

I am not an expert in this field, but just the prospect of progress toward an HIV vaccine seems exciting. I'm not going to tag any particular person, but I hope you will all check out the work of the foundation for yourself and talk about it if you find it worthwhile.

Thank you.

That's My World -- The Rogue River

Time once again to share the beauty, the unique, the fun things in your world! That's My World is hosted each week by the My World Team headed by Klaus. Click here to sign up!



The Rogue River in Oregon is another one of those many breathtaking places that one finds in Washington and Oregon. It's another place of which I have beautiful memories. The history and photos this week are courtesy of Google and Wikipedia.



The Rogue River, in the southwestern part Oregon flows about 215 miles (346 km) from the Cascade Range to the Pacific Ocean. Known for its salmon runs, whitewater rafting, and rugged scenery, it was one of the original eight rivers included in the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968. Many public parks, hiking trails, campgrounds, and boat launches lie along or near the river, which flows largely through national forest lands.



People have lived along the main stem and its tributaries for at least 8,500 years. European explorers made first contact with the native people toward the end of the 18th century and soon began beaver trapping and other activity in the region. Clashes, sometimes deadly, occurred between the natives and the trappers. More intense and frequent clashes with European-American miners and settlers in the late 1840s and early 1850s led to a series of treaties that expanded white control of the land and restricted movement of native groups like the Takelma. The short intervals of relative peace stemming from these treaties did not last and led to the Rogue River Wars of 1855–56, at the end of which nearly all the natives in the Rogue basin were removed to reservations well north of their homeland. After the war, settlers built cabins and established small farms along the Rogue River Canyon. They were relatively isolated from the outside world until 1895, when the Post Office Department added mail-boat service along the lower Rogue. As of 2009, it is one of the two remaining rural mail-boat routes in the United States.





The Rogue on Miracle Mountain.





Guess by now you know how much I love waterfalls!!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings



Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern



A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. ~Leonard Louis Levinson

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan



A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. ~Harry Truman



The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~Benjamin Franklin



Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher

Male or Female???

You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples:


FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.


PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong Buttons.


TIRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated


HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under their butt.


SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.


WEB PAGES:
Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.


TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.


EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.


HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.


THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

New Law:

With the high rate of attacks on women in secluded parking lots, especially during evening hours, the Minneapolis City Council has established a 'Women Only' parking lot at the Mall of America Even the parking lot attendants are exclusively female so that a comfortable and safe environment is created for patrons.

Below is the first picture available of this world-first women-only parking lot in Minnesota .

Pet Pride

Shake it up guys! It's time to go play with Bozo from Mumbai!! So, get that human friend of yours to sign you in here and lets romp!!!

Old Sir Sam, hee hee! has decided I can have the post for myself today -- about time! It's been another LONG week because my Dad has been out of town -- again!!!
You can tell how I feel about having to share EVERYTHING with Sam!



So, I've been trying to focus on the fun things! Like going to the beach!



Having Maggie May come to the house for a sleepover!



And before Dad left he told me that winter is almost here and maybe it will snow again -- like last winter! Man, that was the most fun ever! Not for old Sam though, hee hee, the snow was up to his belly and he had trouble walking, let alone running and playing. And he stayed in the house nearly all the time! I loved it!!

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. ~Honoré de Balzac



The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. ~Henry Ward Beecher



The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. ~Author Unknown



When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown



It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein



You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~Garrison Keillor

Shadow Shot Sunday!

With fall moving in, there may be less sun and perhaps less shadows, but hey! get creative! You can do it! And then join Tracy at Hey Harriet and the rest of us as we get into serious shadow hunting! Click here to sign in and join up! You'll love it!!

Ah, summer memories of leafy shadows on the sand at the beach!



The sun on the deck is a little lower, the shadows suddenly look smaller.



And there are always the fall shadows in the kitchen where we have big windows that catch every little ray of sun there is!





And finally the colored shadows in the basement have shifted from showing up on the bed, to a lampshade and the side of the window.



A wonderful friend of mine in Mumbai left these beautiful words on my post for the day and I want to include them here. To read more of her lovely words check out her site here

The Sun
shooting
its warmth
meets someone
but is stopped
in surprise
in its path.
Quietly ,
head down,
it goes round
who
it has met.
To meet and
shake hands
with a shadow....
Even the sun must learn
that there is
dark and light
in life,
and the way they meet
is wonderful....

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening! ~Author Unknown



What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ~Abraham Lincoln



A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. ~Benjamin Franklin



Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. ~Author Unknown



It is always the secure who are humble. ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Window Through Which We Look

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast,

The young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not very clean", she said.
"She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap."

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry,
The young woman would make the same comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see a
Nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:

"Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this."

The husband said, "I got up early this morning and
Cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life. What we see when watching others
Depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Evening, Wisdom and Beauty

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson,



I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~George Washington Carver



Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran



The poetry of the earth is never dead. ~John Keats