365 Days. 454 Posts. I blogged right into the New Year. Looking back, a surprisingly good year. Coincidence?
Things I learned in 2007:
1. Ask and Ye shall receive.
2. Whosoever giveth taketh in return.
3. Folding bikes are a magic force of positive institutional, social and physical change!
Thank you for sharing my year of Good Things.
‘Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable becomes available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out. It's all about timing.’ - Stacey Charter
‘Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.’ - Steve Jobs
‘If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.’ - Chinese Proverb
‘We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.’ - Jeremy Irons
‘Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.’ - H. Jackson Brown
‘There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.’ - Tennessee Williams
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All I Ever Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten:
1. Listen
2. Participate
3. Have fun!
As holiday party season kicks off:
1. Keep an extra plastic bag at coat check in case you are the lucky winner of the oversized centrepiece in the middle of the dinner table.
2. If you're wearing stay-up nylons, for heaven's sakes, wear stay-up panties!
3. If your company is dim enough not to provide you with a taxi home, by all means feel free to act up in any way you see fit for free cab money.
I like Yoga, but no matter how hard I try, I cannot be:
1. a downward dog,
2. an upward cat, or
3. a sleeping pigeon.
I guess I don't have an inner dog whisperer.
Inspired by Greta's post, some keyword searches people have recently used to land on my blog:
1. ‘legal advice on opening smoothie bars in Spain’
2. ‘365 reasons to be thankful for a lover’ (sounds like a whole other blog)
3. ‘hot chat with sex starving nuns’
Umm, yeah... thanks for visiting!
‘When you choose what you want most in life, you must not begrudge the price.’ The Good Wine, Doris McCarthy, MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, 1991
‘Oh, you must have your hands full!’
‘You sure must have your hands full!’
‘Wow, you must have your hands full!’
‘We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.’
‘The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.’
‘Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.’
Canada's motto is A Mari usque ad Mare (From Sea to Sea). The Toronto Star asked readers for suggestions. Among them:
‘Polite neighbour of world power’
‘Politics divides us, hockey unites us’
‘Canada – Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific – Terrific!’
Britain is seeking a new national motto. Three from a list in today’s Toronto Star:
‘Chicken tikka masala, chips and rice’
‘No, please, after you, honestly’
‘Five quid a beer? Blimey!’
I have a lot of clothes, but never imagined I had six weeks’ worth of unmentionables. The order in which they disappear after the good ones are gone:
1. the ugly, stretched, oversized and rejected, then
2. the lingerie (lovely, but not always comfy), then
3. the bathing suit bottoms (really, how desperate).
‘What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?’ Gandhi
‘Only the dead have seen the end of war.’ Plato
‘One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.’ Agatha Christie
1. a tub of margarine
2. a jar of Dijon mustard
3. a bottle of Stella Artois
An absent bachelorette lives here.
