things in the water (scuba, swimming, beaching it, sailing, pretending to surf). things in the snow (skiing). things in the air (travel). and things on the ground (movies, museums, etc). :) ooh and my ipod. i'm currently obsessed with my various podcasts! I'm also obsessed with books. love to read. :)
Coogee Beach, Australia
Balmoral Beach, Australia
Bondi Beach, Australia
Dave and I diving the Great Barrier Reef off Port Douglas, QLD Australia, August 2006.
old friends to catch up!
What is so great as friendship, let us carry with what grandeur of spirit we can. Let us be silent, -- so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Let us not interfere. Who set you to cast about what you should say to the select souls, or how to say any thing to such? No matter how ingenious, no matter how graceful and bland. There are innumerable degrees of folly and wisdom, and for you to say aught is to be frivolous. Wait, and thy heart shall speak. Wait until the necessary and everlasting overpowers you, until day and night avail themselves of your lips. The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays "Friendship", 1841
little blair, all grown up! :)
Old friends are the best friends
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true Friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a Friend unchangeably.
--William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude
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The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne
I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."- Galileo Galilei
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.-- JFK
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires."--Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A desire for knowledge for its own sake, a love of justice that borders on fanaticism, and a striving for personal independence -- these are aspects of the Jewish people's tradition that allow me to regard my belonging to it as a gift of great fortune. Those who today rage against the ideals of reason and individual freedom and who seek by means of brutal force to bring about a vapid state-slavery are justified in perceiving us as their implacable enemies. History has imposed on us a difficult struggle; but so long as we remain devoted servants of truth, justice, and freedom, we will not only persist as the oldest of living peoples, but will also continue as before to achieve, through productive labor, works that contribute to the ennoblement of humanity. --Albert Einstein, Translation by David Luebke of a passage from Albert Einstein's Mein Weltbild (Amsterdam: Qerido Verlag, 1934), p. 133.
The government of the United States...gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. --George Washington's letter "To the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island," August 17, 1790.
these make me feel old!
Hannah Senesh, Esther, Adam Sandler, DONNA GRACIA MENDES, Moses Maimonides, Raoul Wallenberg, Elie Wiesel, Shalom Aleichem, Paul Newman, Hillel, (all in no particular order!), and the 3 t's: teshuvah, tefillah and tzedakah.
He who has found a woman has found good. --King Solomon
"Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth, for your love is better than wine...My beloved is mine, and I am his, who grazes among the roses...I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, who grazes among the roses...":--Shir Hashirim
Riley and Taylor, i'm the honorary auntie! :) I love them!