"Let what you love, be what you do."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
--Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I found a new site to <3 this evening: ClusterFlock. Also found some other awesomes:
1.) Beard bags
2.) Animal cards... I didn't know a female donkey was a jenny-ass!?
3.) Beards over Babies. And the comic.
4.) This shirt:

5.) This dog hat:

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
-- Henry David Thoreau

When I was a wee little girl, I wanted to be a cheerleader, a teacher, a veterinarian. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a marine biologist and a couple other things I've since forgot. I think I've always wanted to be a forest ranger. I wanted to live in the woods. I wanted to live where it snowed. I wanted a house to work on. I want to live some place where the moon and stars light up the night. I want to hear the breeze in the pines, smell the earth, hear and see the wildlife, feel the warmth of the sun and the cool of the shade. I want to get lost in the beauty of nature. I want to give back. I want to make a difference, regardless of how small it may seem. ...and I want others to do the same.

"Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally." -- John Muir
(read it)

"In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages. ... In the woods, we return to reason and faith." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(read it)

"I would not have every man, nor every part of a man, cultivated any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated." -- Henry David Thoreau
(read it)

"Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams." -- Henry David Thoreau
(read it)

There are so many books I want to read, but I can't pick up just one at a time, which makes it next to impossible to finish any of them. "The Art of Happiness," "Reading Lolita in Tehran," and "The Chronicles of Narnia" are not even halfway finished and I'm stumbling upon new books on a regular basis.

"'Now, we are made to seek happiness. And it is clear that feelings of love, affection, closeness, and compassion bring happiness. I believe that every one of us has the basis to be happy, to access the warm and compassionate states of mind that bring happiness,' the Dalai Lama asserted."

"In class, we were discussing the concept of the villain in the novel. I had mentioned that Humbert was a villain because he lacked curiousity about other people and their lives, even about the person he loved most, Lolita."

"The Horse had lifted is head. Shasta stroked its smooth-as-satin nose and said, 'I wish -you- could talk, old fellow.' And then for a second he thought he was dreaming, for quite distinctly, though in a low voice, the Horse said, 'But I can.'"

"In fact, it is one of my fundamental beliefs that not only do we inherently possess the potential for compassion but I believe that the basic or underlying nature of human beings is gentleness."

And those haven't even made it to my bookshelf yet. I've had Lenin's autobiography queued for years. I finished Stalin's a couple years ago and only half of Richard Bach's are complete. I need to keep my eyes out of bookstores and away from Amazon just long enough to accomplish a few goals.

[Mike|2006-09-27, 22:34:09]
"Pass the Chronic WHAT cles of Narnia"