The Angels Weekly

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

- Charles A. Beard

My take: Ok, I’ve been having fun with these lately, but this one actually says a lot, and I think it’s very important to maybe try to plant this little seed of a reminder: I truly believe you can not know how excessively blessed we all are unless you’ve seen adversity. To everyone it is different. What ever your comfort zone, what ever your tolerance…to go beyond and/or below your personal comfort is the only way to experience how comfortable you ARE. In the case of children specifically, Read more…

Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

- Soren Kierkegaard

My take: So basically… we’re screwed?

No no no… Ok, seriously now. It’s like playing a character Read more…

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese proverb

My take: This quote really needs no further expounding. If only Read more…

I thank You God for most this amazing day; for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

- e.e. cummings

My take: I hear this guy was a brilliant man. So what the heck Read more…

When the stuff hits the fan, it won’t be distributed evenly.
-Unknown

My take: It’s all about Karma baby! You know what I mean… what goes around comes around- and sometimes front and center is  NOT the best place to be!
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The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way in which we use them.
- Unknown

My Take: This reminds me of the thought provoking adage, ‘The only difference between medicine and poison is in the dose.’

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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

- Chicago Tribune

My Take:

I suppose that’s true for a lot of people, but I happen to love my music and will continue to play it loudly until I’m too old and too short of breath to sing along. So maybe I shall never grow up. And in the mean time I only worry what the neighbors think when I’m blasting Rick Springfield’s Read More...

Don’t let go of the vine.
- Johnny Weissmuller, film’s Tarzan

My Take: I can see why someone would think this is an inspirational quote, but quite frankly I’m kind of surprised it wasn’t ‘Don’t let go of the loin cloth.’

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You miss 100 percent of all the shots you never take.
- Wayne Gretzky

My take: Don’t you think it’s time to up the odds? Even if you aim 20 times, and miss every one, the goal will still be there for the 21st try. It won’t go anywhere and your average certainly won’t go up by sitting out the game. I’m pretty sure I’m plagiarizing someone when I say, Read more…

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

- Pete Seeger

My take: But give me the experience any day!

This is a great point: Education vs. Experience. Should you insist that you child attend college right after high school or do you allow them to back pack across Europe for a year? In my opinion experience is something you just can’t get from a degree. I think this Read More...

It’s not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it’s who you are.

- Elvis Presley

My take: I’m sure Elvis was a pretty smart person. But any third grader would have been able to deliver this not exactly earth shattering thought. But I guess sometimes it takes iconic larger than life figures to speak to us in  ways that the most pie eyed, strar struck people can understand. Thank you, Elvis for Read More...

When all is said and done, more is said than done.
- Lou Holtz

My take: This quote reminds me of my own philosophy on how to let someone know you love them. You can’t just ‘tell them’, you have to show them. Words are a dime a dozen and the easiest way to work your way into or out of any situation, to prove a point, etc. Words take little more than some breath and vocal cord spasms. So if you really Read More...

What is a POD, well it’s a print on demand site that lets you open a shop and put your original art work on products, mostly t-shirts. Why should you care about this? Well I’ll tell you. There are several POD’s on the internet, but we are going to focus on one. Cafepress.

I have been working on my shop for over 4 years now. I’m not getting rich, but it helps pay the bills. This week Cafepress has told it’s shopkeepers that they don’t respect us in Read More...

Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr

My Take: We can only hope that the character we THINK we have is even somewhat close to the reality. And the goal should be to make all three correlate.
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Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past.

-Landrum Bolling

My Take: This makes sense to me- think about it. When someone has somehow betrayed you, the very essence of the word ‘betrayed’ lies in the fact that it is past tense. So what good and what sense does it make to continue to hold so tightly to your grievance? Read More...

To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight–and never stop fighting.

-E.E. Cummings

My take:   It seems like this world is dead set on molding and forming us into something ‘better’.  And while improvement is always good, be careful not to buff your own image Read More...

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.

-Elie Wiesel

My take:  Someone very dear to me once said something so profound. It always echos in the hollows of my memory as a very poignant insight. He said, ‘You can not truly hate someone with out having had some form of passion for them.’  Whether it be a significant other, a family member or best friend, your feelings would not be so deep and dismal if you hadn’t at Read More...

This is my “depressed stance.” When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve got to stand like this.
– Charlie Brown

My take: Sometimes it takes a cartoon to show us just how silly we can be in Read More...

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

-Abraham Lincoln

My take: I think this quote speaks to the same camp as ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right.’ Let me explain…

A couple I know recently went through a divorce. Inevitably sides are chosen. On the surface it seemed an easy open and shut case of him being in the wrong. And Read More...

“How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

-Trina Paulus

My Take: I chose this quote because it fit in well with what has been on my mind lately. (click here for last week’s Chickens and Eagles story) It’s all about your comfort level and your willingness to go beyond it. Read More...

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth… Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

-Noela Read More...