Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Taking Charge!
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Tonight Oskar took charge. No more stinkin' cats in the bed! Bring me a drink! Or a bone!
"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." -- Voltaire
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On solitude and chickens
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. -- Thoreau
- There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. -- Colette
- I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -- Rilke
- As innocent as a new-laid egg. -- W. S. Gilbert
- Raising children is like being pecked to death by chickens. --Anonymous, but my mother gave it to me!
- Language...has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. --Paul Johannes Tillich
- Life begins when you plant a garden. -- Chinese proverb
- The great omission in American life is solitude...that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. --Marya Mannes
- If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. -- Russian proverb
- When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. --Antonio Porchia
- Cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the eggs. -- Attr. Margaret Thatcher
- I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. -- Henry David Thoreau
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What We're Reading
- White Truffles in Winter (Kelby)
- The Night Circus (Morgenstern)
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (McCullough)
- My Name is Grace (Hanover)
- In Harm's Way (Stanton)
- Oh, Johnny! (Lehrer)
- State of Wonder (Patchett)
- Shadow of the Wind (Zafon)
- At Home (Bryson)
- In the Garden of Beasts (Larson)
- Black and Blue (Quindlan)
- The Princess Bride (Goldman)
Who's Reading Us?
What We're Listening To
- Best of Leonard Cohen
- Just Across the River (Jimmy Webb)
- Georgia Hard (Robbie Fulks)
- Between the Lines (Janis Ian)
- Country Club (John Doe & The Sadies)
- Bible Belt (Diane Birch)
- Somebody Else's Troubles (Steve Goodman)
- Sundown Lady (Lani Hall)
- The Splendid Table (podcast)
- The Alternative Kitchen Garden (podcast)
- Raising Sand (Robert Plant & Alison Krauss)
- Good for What Ails Ya (Patent Medicine)
- Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Miranda Lambert)
- The Edge of the World (Buddy Mondlock)
3 comments:
LOL, Oskar.
BTW, Elfie has been getting in Country's bed everyday. The other day, I hunted and hunted for her in the house.
Went to Elfie's room and she was in his bed!
Good boy, Oskar! Good Boy.
Hey Johanna- - Thanks for your nice comment on our post! How is Judy? Loved your posts about the stollen; we're all German on both sides. And the Christmas cactus; my mom still has her grandma's. Xo
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