"If You Can't Change Your Fate, Change Your Attitude."

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Leo Tolstoy

Like a good river, life takes you to interesting places. There's usually curves and sometimes flooding, and almost always a bit of trouble. The good news is, if you follow a river, you're guaranteed to get somewhere! My river has had some interesting bends in it lately, but I've decided to start posting here again. This blog helps me get inspired, and I hope you'll find something here that will help you keep moving along down your own river.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis

The human capacity to show love and accept love is illimitable.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffet

Even the last leaf on the tree isn't really alone. The branches and the wind will still want to play, and when the leaf gets tired and decides to drift down to earth, the softest pillow of dirt will be patiently waiting for it. After a rest, the bugs and fungi will come for a visit, and the leaf will learn to care for the roots. From then on, they will be bound to each other, until the day when another leaf is born.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Mark Twain

I am much more independent than I originally thought, and much more capable when I am alone then what I thought I would be.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Herm Albright