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Aunt Trish - 5/18/2012
"Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. ―Johnny Depp"


Aunt Trish - 5/17/2012
" . . . people just have this core desire to express who they are. -Mark Zuckerberg"


Aunt Trish - 5/16/2012
"Take the stumbling blocks and turn them into stepping stones. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/15/2012
"It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. -Henry David Thoreau"


Aunt Trish - 5/14/2012
"Choose to be optimistic. It feels better. -The Dalai Lama"


Aunt Trish - 5/13/2012
"I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling. -Frida Kahlo"


Aunt Trish - 5/12/2012
"Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family. -Barbara Bush"


Aunt Trish - 5/11/2012
"There's no secret ingredient for great chili. Chili is a state of mind. - Carrol Shelby, automotive designer"


Aunt Trish - 5/10/2012
"You can all hover over me like a royal guard. I'd be delighted to play the queen. -Maggie Evans, from Dark Shadows"


Aunt Trish - 5/9/2012
"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!" -from Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak"


Aunt Trish - 5/8/2012
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. -Unknown”


Aunt Trish - 5/7/2012
"When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when you are applauding, when you are joyous, when you are feeling that feeling of appreciation pulsing through you, in those times, there IS NO RESISTANCE within you. You are, in those moments, vibrationally up to speed with who you really are. ~Abraham-Hicks"


Aunt Trish - 5/6/2012
"But each spring...a gardening instinct, sure as the sap rising in the trees, stirs within us. We look about and decide to tame another little bit of ground. -Lewis Gantt"


Aunt Trish - 5/5/2012
"I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times! -Van Morrison"


Aunt Trish - 5/4/2012
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear. -Ambrose Redmoon"


Aunt Trish - 5/3/2012
"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair. -Hillary Rodham Clinton" Love the teal 'do.


Aunt Trish - 5/2/2012
"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is one more good idea. -Jim Rohn"


Aunt Trish - 5/1/2012
"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh"


Aunt Trish - 4/30/2012
"You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way. -Lady Gaga"


Aunt Trish - 4/29/2012
"The only time to eat diet food is while you'RE waiting for the steak to cook. -Julia Child"


Aunt Trish - 4/28/2012
". . . realizing for the first time that my illness was not a curse but a passage on my own unique journey. -Annette Leal Mattern in her book Outside the Lines . . . of love, life & cancer"


Aunt Trish - 4/27/2012
"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore. -Olivia Newton-John"


Aunt Trish - 4/25/2012
"The more you help others, the faster you heal. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 4/24/2012
"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. -Don Williams, Jr. (American Novelist and Poet, b.1968)"


Aunt Trish - 4/23/2012
"Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. ―Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen"


Aunt Trish - 4/22/2012
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature" -Frank Lloyd Wright, architect"


Aunt Trish - 4/21/2012
"The constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. -Benjamin Franklin"


Aunt Trish - 4/16/2012
"God didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 4/15/2012
"Life is beautiful but people are crazy. -Charles Osgood"


Aunt Trish - 4/13/2012
"I don't take anything for granted. -Katy Perry"


Aunt Trish - 4/12/2012
"I am doing things that are true to me. -Johnny Depp"


Aunt Trish - 4/11/2012
Stay strong chica. "One person's crazyness is another person's reality. ―Tim Burton"


Aunt Trish - 4/10/2012
"Passion for place - there is no greater urge in feline nature. -Paul Annixter"


Aunt Trish - 4/9/2012
"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -Aristotle"


Aunt Trish - 4/8/2012
"Your presence is a unique gift to the world. -shop window in Beirut, Lebanon"


Aunt Trish - 4/7/2012
"Zealously support a worthy cause. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/6/2012
"Yearn for peace. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/5/2012
"Xeriscape. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/4/2012
"Win graciously. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/3/2012
"Value truth. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/2/2012
"Understand. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 4/1/2012
"Touch hearts. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/31/2012
"Seek wisdom. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/30/2012
"Reciprocate. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/29/2012
"Quell rumors. -Renee Stewart's alphabet


Aunt Trish - 3/28/2012
"Pack lightly. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/27/2012
"Open your mind. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/26/2012
"Nurture hope. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/25/2012
"Master something. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/24/2012
"May light and love surround your home & the stars always dance above you. -unknown "


Aunt Trish - 3/23/2012
"Love truly. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/22/2012
"Keep confidences. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/21/2012
"Jettison anger. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/20/2012
"Imagine more. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/19/2012
"Harm no one. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/18/2012
"Give freely. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/17/2012
"Forgive. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/15/2012
"Express thanks. -Renee Stewart's alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/14/2012
"Dream. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/13/2012
"Count your blessings. -Renee Stewart alphabet "


Aunt Trish - 3/12/2012
"Be kind. -Renee Stewart's alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/11/2012
"Accept differences. -Renee Stewart alphabet"


Aunt Trish - 3/9/2012
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -Sarah Williams"


Aunt Trish - 3/8/2012
"Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Beecher Stowe"


Aunt Trish - 3/7/2012
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 3/6/2012
"If not for stress I'd have no energy at all! -unknown "


Aunt Trish - 3/5/2012
"In the quiet of this day, may you know the greatness of your spirit and may your hopes fly on the wings of possibility. -Mary Ann Radmacher"


Aunt Trish - 3/2/2012
“I think that most people would rather face the light of a real enemy than the darkness of their imagined fears. ― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War"


Aunt Trish - 2/29/2012
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get done. It's not. -The Lorax, by Dr. Suess"


Aunt Trish - 2/28/2012
"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. -Marcus Tullius Cicero"


Aunt Trish - 2/27/2012
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell. -Joan Crawford"


Aunt Trish - 2/25/2012
"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton"


Aunt Trish - 2/24/2012
"O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~Percy Bysshe Shelley"


Aunt Trish - 2/23/2012
"There's no place like home. There's no place like home. -Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz"


Aunt Trish - 2/22/2012
“Samantha: So, how were they? Carrie: The pancakes? Delicious, exactly what I wanted. I couldn't get enough. Samantha: No, I was referring to the moves. Carrie: Delicious, exactly what I wanted. I couldn't get enough.” sugar_ray Sex and the City quotes (American TV series. Starring Sarah Jessica Parker"


Aunt Trish - 2/21/2012
"Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God. ~Krishnamacharya"


Aunt Trish - 2/20/2012
"Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. -Colin Powell"


Aunt Trish - 2/19/2012
"Change begins with a whisper. -from the novel "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett"


Aunt Trish - 2/18/2012
"I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside. -Whitney Houston"


Aunt Trish - 2/16/2012
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. -Lance Armstrong"


Aunt Trish - 2/15/2012
"Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower. -Dinah Shore"


Aunt Trish - 2/14/2012
"Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal. -fortune cookie"


Aunt trish - 2/13/2012
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt"


Aunt trish - 2/13/2012
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt"


Aunt trish - 2/13/2012
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt"


Aunt Trish - 2/12/2012
"I only do what comes from the heart. -LL Cool J"


Aunt Trish - 2/11/2012
"All stories, they say, begin in one of two ways, "A stranger came to town" or "I set out upon a journey". -Barbara Kingsolver in 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' "


Aunt Trish - 2/10/2012
"when you effortlessly create something, it's from the level of your soul, your spirit. -deepak chopra"


Aunt Trish - 2/6/2012
"I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. -Madonna"


Aunt Trish - 2/5/2012
"Dogs are miracles with paws. ~Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy"


Aunt Trish - 2/4/2012
"The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves. -Shirley MacLaine"


Aunt Trish - 2/3/2012
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. -Charlotte Bronte"


Aunt Trish - 2/2/2012
"We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate outselves from within. -Colette Dowling"


Aunt Trish - 2/1/2012
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential . . . these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. -Confucious"


Aunt Trish - 1/31/2012
"We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story. -Mary McCarthy"


Aunt Trish - 1/30/2012
"I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. -Elizabeth Taylor"


Aunt Trish - 1/29/2012
"The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. - Hillary Rodham Clinton


Aunt Trish - 1/27/2012
"None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime. -Gail Godwin"


Aunt Trish - 1/26/2012
"Voices whisper out of old quilts - an aunt's laughter, a grandmother's storytelling. Even when the quiltmaker is unknown, the mystery and the exchange are still there. -Jean Ray Laury, quilter"


Aunt Trish - 1/24/2012
"Don't squander your energies on anything you are lukewarm about. Passion adds power and strength. -Jean Ray Laury, quilter"


Aunt Trish - 1/23/2012
"Women are never who they seem to be. There is the woman you see and the woman who is hidden. -Erma Bombeck"


Aunt Trish - 1/22/2012
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. -Oliver Wendell Holmes"


Aunt Trish - 1/21/2012
"The very existance of messes is a debatable issue. Like beauty, they exist in the eye of the beholder. -Jean Ray Laury, quilter"


Aunt Trish - 1/20/2012
"Play and fantasy are very important parts of our lives, and they are probably essential to creative work. Daydreamig and free thinking keep our minds open. -Jean Ray Laury, quilter"


Aunt Trish - 1/19/2012
“Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. -unknown”


Aunt Trish - 1/18/2012
"A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity . . . -Barbara Gordon"


Aunt Trish - 1/17/2012
"A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine & that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home, she can be aggressive, she can be passive, she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening. -Barbara Walters"


Aunt Trish - 1/16/2012
"Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation. -Martin Luther King"


Aunt Trish - 1/15/2012
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one. -Simone de Beauvior"


Aunt Trish - 1/14/2012
"The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. -Margaret Fuller"


Aunt Trish - 1/13/2012
"I never had to become a feminist; I was born liberated. -Grace Slick"


Aunt Trish - 1/12/2012
"I feel there is something unexplored about a woman that only a woman can explore . . . -Georgia O'Keefe"


Aunt Trish - 1/11/2012
"When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman. -Betty Friedan"


Aunt Trish - 1/10/2012
"A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. -Wallis Simpson"


Aunt Trish - 1/9/2012
"Gray hairs seem, to my fancy, like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life. -Jean Paul"


Aunt Trish - 1/8/2012
"If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color. -Johnny Depp"


Aunt Trish - 1/7/2012
"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain"


Aunt Trish - 1/4/2012
"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. -P. D. James"


Aunt Trish - 1/3/2012
"Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past. -Barbara Kingsolver, from the novel 'The Poisonwood Bible'."


Aunt Trish - 1/2/2012
"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world would be clean. -von Goethe"


Aunt Trish - 1/1/2012
"It's like a new sunrise - of hope, of prosperity, of happiness. It's like a new beginning - of thoughts, of words, of actions. It's like a new day - of energy, of strength, of ideas. It's like a bunch of whole new things - of prayers, of friends and of love. Happy New Year. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 12/31/2011
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. -Bill Vaughan"


Aunt Trish - 12/31/2011
"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. -Bill Vaughan"


Aunt Trish - 12/30/2011
"Hope is the thing with feathers. -Emily Dickinson"


Aunt Trish - 12/25/2011
"But first, a novel has to entertain - that's the contract with the reader : you give me ten hours and I'll give you a reason to turn every page. -Barbara Kingsolver"


Aunt Trish - 12/22/2011
"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. =Ralph W. Sockman"


Aunt Trish - 12/21/2011
"The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect! ~Charles N. Barnard"


Aunt Trish - 12/20/2011
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect. -Oren Arnold"


Aunt Trish - 12/19/2011
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. -Mohandas Gandhi"


Aunt Trish - 12/18/2011
"The smallest feline is a masterpiece. -Leonardo da Vinci"


Aunt Trish - 12/17/2011
"It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife. -Confucius"


Aunt Trish - 12/16/2011
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it. -Christopher Hitchens"


Aunt Trish - 12/15/2011
In homage to our favorite librarian, Aunt Kitty: "I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. -Barbara Kingsolver"


Aunt Trish - 12/14/2011
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? -Douglas Adams"


Aunt Trish - 12/13/2011
"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? -Dr. Seuss"


Aunt Trish - 12/12/2011
"Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied. -Robert Noyce"


Aunt Trish - 12/10/2011
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. -Thomas Jefferson"


Aunt Trish - 12/9/2011
"Starting out with the first hoop, it represents ourselves learnig how to navigate through life as an individual. As you are evolving, you start to interact with other people of different cultures, and you begin to acquire more hoops. -Brian Hammill, U.S. Army Veteran, founder Native Spirit Dancers, Native American Hoop Dance World Champion"


Aunt Trish - 12/8/2011
"Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste. -Diego Rivera"


Aunt Trish - 12/7/2011
"We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. -David Suzuki"


Aunt Trish - 12/6/2011
"The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb 'to eat', in the active and in the passive, -William R. Inge"


Aunt Trish - 12/5/2011
"The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home. -David Suzuki"


Aunt Trish - 12/4/2011
"Tree: Large vegetable rising with one woody stem, to a considerable height. -Samuel Johnson"


Aunt Trish - 12/3/2011
"If language had been the creation, not of poetry, but of logic, we should only have one. -Friedrich Hebbel"


Aunt Trish - 12/2/2011
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. -Pierre Corneille"


Aunt Trish - 12/1/2011
"October and November passed rapidly; and Christmas was at hand, with all its merry mysteries, home-gatherings and good wishes. -Louisa May Alcott"


Aunt Trish - 11/30/2011
"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -Mark Twain"


Aunt Trish - 11/29/2011
"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. -Walt Whitman"


Aunt Trish - 11/28/2011
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson"


Aunt Trish - 11/27/2011
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain"


Aunt Trish - 11/26/2011
"We move to the same impulse that makes squirrels hoard their nuts, rising at dawn to pick, returning in the evening to pick more. -Barbara Kingsolver"


Aunt Trish - 11/22/2011
"One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works. -Meiser Eckhart"


Aunt Trish - 11/21/2011
"My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work. -Abraham Lincoln"


Aunt Trish - 11/20/2011
"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky, and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by. -John Mansfield, 'Sea Fever' 1902"


Aunt Trish - 11/19/2011
"Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody. -Samuel Pepys"


Aunt Trish - 11/18/2011
"Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Poincare"


Aunt Trish - 11/17/2011
"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science. -Ralph Waldo Emerson."


Aunt Trish - 11/16/2011
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom. -Aeschylus, 430 BC"


Aunt Trish - 11/15/2011
"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. -Mme. De Stael"


Aunt Trish - 11/14/2011
'I decided that even if I grew up to love asparagus, I would always tell my Mom I hated it. I didn't want her to be right about my personal preferences. My stubborn plot fell by the wayside, however, several springs later when I bit into a tender asparagus shoot and realized how delicious it was. I decided a lifetime of lies and deception wouldn't be worth it. -Camille Kingsolver, "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" '


Aunt Trish - 11/13/2011
"Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence. -Samuel Butler"


Aunt Trish - 11/12/2011
"The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. -Gertrude Jekyll"


Aunt Trish - 11/11/2011
"I will get stronger. I will return. -Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, D-AZ"


Aunt Trish - 11/10/2011
"Much as worthy friends add to the happiness and value of life, we must in the main depend upon ourselves. And everyone is his own best friend or worst enemy. -Lord Evebury"


Aunt Trish - 11/9/2011
"My lasting joys come from quiet pleasures. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 11/8/2011
"I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries. -Marie Curie"


Aunt Trish - 11/7/2011
"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. -Marie Curie"


Aunt Trish - 11/6/2011
"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens. -Andy Rooney"


Aunt Trish - 11/5/2011
"Promise me you'll always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -Christopher Robin, to Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A.Milne)"


Aunt Trish - 11/4/2011
"I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love. -Audrey Hepburn, actress"


Aunt Trish - 11/3/2011
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. -Oprah Winfrey"


Aunt Trish - 11/1/2011
"At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. -Crown Princess Masako, Imperial House of Japan"


Aunt Trish - 10/31/2011
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. -Charles Dickens"


Aunt Trish - 10/30/2011
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. -Meryl Streep, actress"


Aunt Trish - 10/29/2011
"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it ande sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual is the ultimate champion. -Mia Hamm, professional soccer player"


Aunt Trish - 10/28/2011
"Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. -William Morris"


Aunt Trish - 10/27/2011
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. -Babe Ruth"


Aunt Trish - 10/26/2011
"Happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose. -William Cowper"


Aunt Trish - 10/25/2011
"Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus"


Aunt Trish - 10/24/2011
" . . . to find the air and the water exhilarating . . . to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's next or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs"


Aunt Trish - 10/23/2011
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness . . . -Mark Twain"


Aunt Trish - 10/22/2011
"Only the smart man lives to fight another day. -Buster"


Aunt Trish - 10/21/2011
"The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman. -Mexican proverb"


Aunt Trish - 10/20/2011
"Every family is unique, so there is no right way to be a family. You don't need a role model, you just need love. -Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes"


Aunt Trish - 10/19/2011
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. -Henry Ford"


Aunt Trish - 10/18/2011
"True love stories never have endings. -Richard Bach, author"


Aunt Trish - 10/17/2011
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. -William Shakespeare, playwright"


Aunt Trish - 10/16/2011
"Injustice anywhere is an injustice to everyone. -Dr. Martin Luther King"


Aunt Trish - 10/15/2011
"I believe in me. If I don't, nobody else will. -Charles Barkley, former NBA basketball player"


Aunt Trish - 10/14/2011
"A laugh is a smile that bursts! -Mary H. Waldrip"


Aunt Trish - 10/13/2011
"In times like these, men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity. -Abraham Lincoln"


Aunt Trish - 10/12/2011
"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. -Winston Churchill"


Aunt Trish - 10/11/2011
"To know how cherries or strawberries taste, ask a child or a bird. -welcome plaque @ aunt kitty & uncle franks front door"


Aunt Trish - 10/6/2011
"Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people. -Steve Jobs"


Aunt Trish - 10/5/2011
"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. -Spencer Johnson, business author."


Aunt Trish - 10/4/2011
"It is important to be loved; it is profound to be understood. -Portia de Rossi, actress"


Aunt Trish - 10/3/2011
Especially for our new visitor Deb: "Celebrate what you want to see more of. -Thomas J. Peters"


Aunt Trish - 10/2/2011
"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new. -Brian Tracy, author & business consultant"


Aunt Trish - 10/1/2011
"If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. -Jane Fonda, actress"


Aunt Trish - 9/30/2011
"Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you're supposed to be. -Dr. Phil"


Aunt Trish - 9/29/2011
"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. -Judy Garland, actress"


Aunt Trish - 9/28/2011
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -e.e. cummings, poet"


Aunt Trish - 9/27/2011
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different. -Coco Chanel, French fashion designer"


Aunt Trish - 9/26/2011
"Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain. -Judith Viorst, author"


Aunt Trish - 9/25/2011
"I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. -Lary Bird, NBA basketball player"


Aunt Trish - 9/24/2011
"I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them. -Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Olympic gold medalist"


Aunt Trish - 9/23/2011
"In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. -Rachel Carson"


Aunt Trish - 9/21/2011
"My life is like surfing, with one wave coming after another. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 9/20/2011
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. -Carl Jung"


Aunt Trish - 9/19/2011
"Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes. -Cindy Crawford"


Aunt Trish - 9/18/2011
"Sponges grow in the ocean. That just 'gets' me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. -Stephen Wright"


Aunt Trish - 9/17/2011
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. -Lord Chesterfield "


Aunt Trish - 9/16/2011
"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives. -Doug Coupland "


Aunt Trish - 9/15/2011
"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. -Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of India"


Aunt Trish - 9/14/2011
"Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them. -Harriet Rubin"


Aunt Trish - 9/13/2011
"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything. -Vince Lombardi"


Aunt Trish - 9/12/2011
"The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. -Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields" (cookies . . . with chocolate . . . yum! . . . think I'll make a batch . . .)


Aunt Trish - 9/11/2011
"Courage lies in every heart and one day it will be summoned. -Jean Biden, mother of Vice President Joe Biden, Jr."


Aunt Trish - 9/10/2011
"Courage is grace under pressure. -Ernest Hemmingway"


Aunt Trish - 9/9/2011
"Our problems are man-made and, therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. -President John F. Kennedy"


Aunt Trish - 9/8/2011
It’s all of our birthdays this summer One number older, another year younger I’ll go to your party, you’ll come to mine We’ve given up cigarettes, we’ve given up wine We’ve given up caffeine and sworn off desserts I don’t try to seduce you, we don’t even flirt We’re too good to be happy, too straight to be sad So just blow out the candles, Happy Birthday Stay out of the ocean, stay out of the sun Stay in perfect shape and be number one We’ve got brilliant excuses for having no fun So blow out the candles, Happy Birthday -Carly Simon, part of her Happy Birthday Song


Aunt Trish - 9/7/2011
"Don't make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you. -Maya Angelou, poet & author."


Aunt Trish - 9/6/2011
"I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend. -Freddie Mercury"


Aunt Trish - 9/5/2011
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Thomas efferson"


Aunt Trish - 9/4/2011
"The defining factor in success is never resources, it's resourcefulness. -Anthony Robbins, author and motivational speaker"


Aunt Trish - 9/3/2011
"Decide what you want, and decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. -H.L. Hunt, entrepreneur"


Aunt Trish - 9/2/2011
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery. -James Joyce, novelist"


Aunt Trish - 9/1/2011
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. -Dale Carnegie"


Aunt Trish - 8/31/2011
"Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else. -Carrie Fisher, actress & author"


Aunt Trish - 8/30/2011
"Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. -Minnie Richard Smith, poet"


Aunt Trish - 8/29/2011
"Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake. -Georgette Mosbacher, cosmetics CEO & author"


Aunt Trish - 8/28/2011
"We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. -Mignon McLaughlin, journalist"


Aunt Trish - 8/27/2011
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich"


Aunt Trish - 8/26/2011
"The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. -Ann Landers"


Aunt Trish - 8/25/2011
"Don't be who you're not. -Kathy Griffin, actress & comedian"


Aunt Trish - 8/24/2011
"An earthquake is Mother Nature's remnder of who is in charge. -Aunt Trish


Aunt Trish - 8/23/2011
"Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. -Harvey Fierstein, actor"


Aunt Trish - 8/22/2011
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. -Dale Carnegie"


Aunt Trish - 8/21/2011
"Happiness is like jam . . . you can't spread even a little without getting some on yourself. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 8/20/2011
"A happy cook makes thyme fly. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 8/19/2011
"Never underestimate the power of a cozy warm cup of tea! -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 8/18/2011
"Forget love . . . wouldn't you rather fall in chocolate? -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 8/17/2011
"And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything. -Pierre de Fermat"


Aunt Trish - 8/16/2011
"As with most things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: Any month whose name contains the letter a, e, or u is the proper time for chocolate. -Sandra Boynton"


Aunt Trish - 8/15/2011
"Eat, drink and be merry. . . for tomorrow we surely diet! -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 8/14/2011
"I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no. -Sir Richard Branson, entrepreneur"


Aunt Trish - 8/13/2011
"Action is the antidote to despair. -Joan Baez, folk singer"


Aunt Trish - 8/12/2011
Rachel Beckwith was aghast when she learned that other children had no clean water, so she asked to skip having a ninth birthday party. In lieu of presents, she asked her friends to donate $9 each to www.charitywater.org/Rachel for water projects in Africa.


Aunt Trish - 8/11/2011
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. -W.C. Fields


Aunt Trish - 8/10/2011
"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another. -Mike Tyson"


Aunt Trish - 8/9/2011
"There are always flowers for those who want to see them. -Henri Matisse"


Aunt Trish - 8/9/2011
8/8/2011 "A contented heart is an even sea in the midst of all storms. -anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 8/7/2011
"Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air. -Andrea Willis"


Aunt Trish - 8/6/2011
Props to Aunt Danita: "Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. -Lucille Ball"


Aunt Trish - 8/5/2011
"There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. -Mark Burnett, TV producer"


Aunt Trish - 8/4/2011
"The wildflowers dance as soon as the raindrops stop and the air smells fresh. -Patty Schliemer"


Aunt Trish - 8/3/2011
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art. -Leonardo da Vinci" I'm targeting your feet with good thoughts! xoxo love u*


Aunt Trish - 8/2/2011
"I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics. -Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-AZ, 8-1-11"


Aunt Trish - 8/1/2011
"I love it, I love it; and who shall dare to chide me for loving that old armchair? -Eliza Cook"


Aunt Trish - 7/31/2011
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. -Henry David Thoreau"


Aunt Trish - 7/30/2011
"summer heat hinders, creativity delayed-until fall arrives. -Phyllis Jean Campbell"


Aunt Trish - 7/29/2011
"with an open eye you become the beholder. careful not to blink. -Anne Wheatley"


Aunt Trish - 7/28/2011
"the pure & simple truth is rarely pure & never simple. -oscar wilde


Aunt Trish - 7/27/2011
"No house should ever be on any hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it, so hill and house could live together each the happier for the other. -Frank Lloyd Wright"


Aunt Trish - 7/26/2011
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. -Henry David Thoreau"


Aunt Trish - 7/25/2011
"Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. -Thomas Fuller"


Aunt Trish - 7/24/2011
"I call architecture frozen music. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"


Aunt Trish - 7/23/2011
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. -Benedict Spinoza, Theologist"


Aunt Trish - 7/22/2011
“My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. -Alexander Calder, American painter & sculptor"


Aunt Trish - 7/21/2011
"When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her, more than she is a pastime to me? - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, 1580"


Aunt Trish - 7/20/2011
"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun. -William Glasser"


Aunt Trish - 7/19/2011
"My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves. -Jeff Koons, artist"


Aunt Trish - 7/18/2011
"One joy scatters a hundred gifts. -Chinese Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 7/17/2011
"Friendship is a sheltering tree. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge"


Aunt Trish - 7/16/2011
"Peace is always beautiful. -Walt Whitman"


Aunt Trish - 7/15/2011
"People who deal in sunshine are the ones who draw the crowds. They always do more business than those who peddle clouds. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 7/15/2011
"People who deal in sunshine are the ones who draw the crowds. They always do more business than those who peddle clouds. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 7/14/2011
"Happiness is everywhere, and its spring is in our own hearts. -John Ruskin"


Aunt Trish - 7/13/2011
"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world. -William James"


Aunt Trish - 7/12/2011
"The beauty of life is diminished if not share with a friend. -Cicero"


Aunt Trish - 7/11/2011
"What did I learn today? Sometimes a nice walk with a good friend is all that I need. -Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York"


Aunt Trish - 7/10/2011
"Joy is not in things, it is in us. -Megiddo message"


Aunt Trish - 7/9/2011
"Today . . . the tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow blossoms. -Shakespeare"


Aunt Trish - 7/8/2011
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever. -Keats"


Aunt Trish - 7/7/2011
"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. -Ecclesiastes 3:1"


Aunt Trish - 7/6/2011
"The human heart has hidden treasures. -Charlotte Bronte"


Aunt Trish - 7/5/2011
"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"


Aunt Trish - 7/4/2011
"it is advisable to look from the tidepool to the stars and then back to the tidepool again. -John Steinbeck, in a meditation on the interconnectedness of life"


Aunt Trish - 7/3/2011
"You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. -George Harrison"


Aunt Trish - 7/3/2011
7/2/2011 "There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done . . . and the ones who just do it. -Hoda Kotb, Today Show host"


Aunt Trish - 7/1/2011
"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon, or not at all. -Harriet Van Horne"


Aunt Trish - 6/30/2011
"You've got to jump off cliffs, all the time, and build your wings on the way down. -Rayh Bradbury" You have built the strongest most beautiful wings over the past year. xoxo


Aunt Trish - 6/29/2011
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson."


Aunt Trish - 6/28/2011
A true friend is the greatest of all blessings. -Duc de la Rochefoucauld.


Aunt Trish - 6/27/2011
"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. ~Author Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 6/26/2011
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -Sir James Barrie"


Aunt Trish - 6/25/2011
"Wherever you are, it is your own friends who make your world. -Henry James"


Aunt Trish - 6/24/2011
"One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and be understood. -Seneca


Aunt Trish - 6/23/2011
"Friendship cheers like a sunbeam; charms like a good story . . . -Newell D. Hillis"


Aunt Trish - 6/22/2011
" 'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. -Louisa May Alcott"


Aunt Trish - 6/21/2011
"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent"


Aunt Trish - 6/20/2011
LOVE LOVE LOVE your "fur babies" term - we are so very lucky to have them as such an integral part of our lives. love you - xoxo. ps: your co-workers are good enough to start a cubby decor design business!


Aunt Trish - 6/19/2011
"I think this is a crucial way to see your childhood - - you have to sift the good from the bad, like putting vegetables in a colander & rinsing away the dirt. -Bethenny Frankel, A Place of Yes"


Aunt Trish - 6/18/2011
"Friends create the world anew each day. -Helen Keller"


Aunt Trish - 6/17/2011
"Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. -Charles Spurgeon"


Aunt Trish - 6/16/2011
"There is not better looking glass than an old friend. -Thomas Fuller"


Aunt Trish - 6/15/2011
"Happy is the house that shelters a friend. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 6/14/2011
"All is born of water; all is sustained by water. -Goethe"


Aunt Trish - 6/14/2011
6/13/2011 "And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home. -Christopher Columbus"


Aunt Trish - 6/12/2011
"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore. -Vincent Van Gogh"


Aunt Trish - 6/11/2011
"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective. -Henry David Thoreau"


Aunt Trish - 6/10/2011
"I seem to have been like a child playing on the seashore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. -Isaac Newton"


Aunt Trish - 6/9/2011
"Good things happen to those that wait and fight. Keep good thoughts in your head and a smile on your face and the rest of life will follow. Love . . . -Danita Fanning"


Aunt Trish - 6/8/2011
"Man's best friends and worst enemies are fire, wind, and rain. -Old Irish Proverb" so glad to hear your good news from the docs & I'll be thinking of you on Monday.


Aunt Trish - 6/7/2011
Darcel - your a blessing as my neice and I'm so fortunate that you are also my friend - hugs & kisses! "There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and there are not many things more uncommon. -Ancient Megiddo Inscription"


Aunt Trish - 6/6/2011
"When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him. -Traditional Ashanti Saying


Aunt Trish - 6/5/2011
"It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens . . . that, whatever you say to them, they ALWAYS purr. -Alice in Wonderland"


Aunt Trish - 6/4/2011
"Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. -Oliver Herford"


Aunt Trish - 6/3/2011
Darcel - you are my blessing - "Be a blessing to somebody. -Maya Angelou"


Aunt Trish - 6/3/2011
6/2/2011 "My huge campfire glowed like a sun . . . -John Muir"


Aunt Trish - 6/1/2011
June is, above all things, 'leafy', seeming chiefly to concentrate her energies on her foliage; for although she really is not lacking in flowers, they are almost swamped in the great green flood which has swept silently but irresistibly across the land. -Mrs. William Starr Dana, 1894"


Aunt Trish - 5/31/2011
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. -fortune cookie"


Aunt Trish - 5/30/2011
"If we really care about peace, we must stay strong. -Ronald Reagan"


Aunt Trish - 5/29/2011
"Eyes sting, throat tightens, tears fall - every time I hear the melody of Taps - remember our fallen military - and God bless America. -Aunt Trish


Aunt Trish - 5/28/2011
"When it looks like the sun won't shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/27/2011
"No act of love, however small, is ever wasted. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/26/2011
"Nobody can be in good health if he does not have fresh air, sunshine, and good water. -Chief Flying Hawk, Oglala Sioux Trib"


Aunt Trish - 5/25/2011
"I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. -Oprah Winfrey"


Aunt Trish - 5/24/2011
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. -Henry Ford"


Aunt Trish - 5/23/2011
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupery


Aunt Trish - 5/22/2011
"Attitude is everything. -Diane von Furstenberg"


Aunt Trish - 5/21/2011
"Bicycle, I've missed you. -Zyrtec commercial"


Aunt Trish - 5/20/2011
"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. -Leo Buscaglia"


Aunt Trish - 5/19/2011
"Everything happens for a reason, the hard part is finding out what that reason is. -Katherine Schwarzenegger"


Aunt Trish - 5/19/2011
5/18/2011: "There is a desire deep withiin all humans to feel safe and at home in nature . . . -Lynda Waggoner, Director of Fallingwater"


Aunt Trish - 5/17/2011
"The flowers are springing up and the time of singing birds has come. -Solomon 2:12"


Aunt Trish - 5/16/2011
"Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun. -Frank Lloyd Wright"


Aunt Trish - 5/15/2011
"If you have much, give of your wealth. If you have little, give of your heart. -sign in Creekside Country Store, Shanksville, PA"


Aunt Trish - 5/14/2011
"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/13/2011
"I smile because I don't have the slightest idea what's going on. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/12/2011
"To the world you may be just one person but to one person you may be the world. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 5/11/2011
"Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. -Jude 1:2"


Aunt Trish - 5/9/2011
"As the garden grows, so does the gardener. -Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 5/8/2011
"If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault"


Aunt Trish - 5/7/2011
"Skinnygirl: the margarita you can trust. -Bethany Frankel"


Aunt Trish - 5/6/2011
"I'd rather have flowers on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman"


Aunt Trish - 5/5/2011
"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth. -Leo Tolstoy"


Aunt Trish - 5/4/2011
"There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments. -Janet Kilburn Phillips"


Aunt Trish - 5/3/2011
"Some people like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path. -Jean Anouilh"


Aunt Trish - 5/2/2011
“You struggle with your demons and you conquer them. -Kinky Friedman"


Aunt Trish - 5/1/2011
"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. -Edwin Way Teale"


Aunt Trish - 4/30/2011
"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. -Japanese proverb"


Aunt Trish - 4/29/2011
"God our Father, we thank you for our families; for the love that we share and for the joy of our marriage. In the busyness of each day keep our eyes fixed on what is real and important in life and help us to be generous with our time and love and energy. Strengthened by our union help us to serve and comfort those who suffer. We ask this in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. Amen. -Wedding prayer written by Prince William & Catherine Middleton"


Aunt Trish - 4/28/2011
"Landscape is a work of the mind. Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock. -Simon Schama, art historian"


Aunt Trish - 4/26/2011
"You can learn all your core subjects in a garden. -Laura Turner Seydel"


Aunt Trish - 4/25/2011
"Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. -Japanese proverb"


Aunt Trish - 4/24/2011
"Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Christmas. - Jack Handy"


Aunt Trish - 4/23/2011
"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have. -Andy Warhol"


Aunt Trish - 4/22/2011
"Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time. ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society"


Aunt Trish - 4/21/2011
“The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection–even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano –is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. –Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist"


Aunt Trish - 4/20/2011
"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -Claude Monet"


Aunt Trish - 4/19/2011
"A garden is the best alternative therapy. -Germaine Greer"


Aunt Trish - 4/18/2011
"The plow that works is always shiny. -Greek Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 4/17/2011
"Where flowers bloom, so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson"


Aunt Trish - 4/15/2011
"Earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 4/14/2011
"Where you live is what you become. Your home mirrors the challenge, opportunities & direction of your life. -Gina Lazenby"


Aunt Trish - 4/13/2011
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust"


Aunt Trish - 4/12/2011
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar. -Drew Carey " Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/drew_carey.html#ixzz1JMO9hVM3


Aunt Trish - 4/11/2011
"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. -Johann Christoph & Friedrich Von Schiller"


Aunt Trish - 4/10/2011
"Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest. -Ashleigh Brilliant"


Aunt Trish - 4/9/2011
"I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent underwater and that would be a journey to Mars. -William Beebe, deep-sea explorer"


Aunt Trish - 4/8/2011
"Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we say, 'Our work is finished.' -Rachel Carson"


Aunt Trish - 4/7/2011
"Life is uncertain! Being adventurous means seeing that uncertainty as the gift of possibility. -Matt Walker, adventure consultant with Inner Passage, Tucson, AZ"


Aunt Trish - 4/6/2011
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince"


Aunt Trish - 4/5/2011
"The secret of life is balance, and the absence of balance is life's destruction. -Hazrat Inayat Khan"


Aunt Trish - 4/4/2011
"The Sweet Pea has a keel that was meant to seek all shores; it has wings that were meant to fly across all continents; it has a standard which is friendly to all nations; and it has a fragrance like the universal gospel, yea, a sweet prophecy of welcome everywhere that has been abundantly fulfilled" - Rev. W. T. Hutchins 1900 (At the Sweet Pea Bi-centenary Celebration"


Aunt Trish - 4/3/2011
"We seek and support nonviolent ways to achieve peace and justice. We believe government resources are more productively used in meeting human needs than in building and maintaining weapons systems. -part of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Mission Statement"


Aunt Trish - 3/31/2011
"Working is beautiful and rewarding, but acquisition of wealth for its own sake is disgusting. — Robert Bunsen, a comment he often told his students."


Aunt Trish - 3/30/2011
"You don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you are going to live. Now. - Joan Baez, folk singer, song writer & activist"


Aunt Trish - 3/29/2011
“Meditate on your own Self. Worship your Self. Respect your Self. God dwells within you as you. -Swami Muktananda”


Aunt Trish - 3/28/2011
"Life is a journey not a destination. So is your home. -Morel Fourman"


Aunt Trish - 3/27/2011
"It just is a very, very expensive thing to do, very expensive thing to do, and that's the one thing that bothers me," she said. "Having to come in twice a week, that doesn't bother me. What bothers me is that what's available to me is not available to every person who has cancer in this country and it should be. It should be. -Geraldine Ferraro regarding her cancer battle"


Aunt Trish - 3/26/2011
"The years teach much which the days never know. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 3/25/2011
"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. -Phyllis Diller"


Aunt Trish - 3/24/2011
For this I wish for all of us: "If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world. -Chinese Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 3/23/2011
This quote always makes me chuckle - enjoy: "I fell off my pink cloud with a thud. -Elizabeth Taylor"


Aunt Trish - 3/22/2011
" 'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free, 'tis a gift to come down where we ought to be, and when you find yourself in the place just right, you'll be in the valley of love and delight. -Shaker song titled Simple Gifts"


Aunt Trish - 3/21/2011
"My lasting joys come from quiet pleasures. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 3/20/2011
"Good leaders are scarce, so I'm following myself. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 3/19/2011
"Yesterday was the deadline for all complaints. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 3/18/2011
"It's easier to say what we believe than be what we believe. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 3/17/2011
"There are 3 kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen & those who don't know what the hell is happening! -Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics"


Aunt Trish - 3/16/2011
"Earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 3/15/2011
So glad to hear how well you are doing. "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 3/14/2011
"The first duty of love is to listen. -Paul Tilich"


Aunt Trish - 3/12/2011
"A garden is a friend you can visit anytime. -Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 3/11/2011
"The mind is everything. What you think, you become. -Buddha"


Aunt Trish - 3/10/2011
"To plant a garden is to believe in the future. -Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 3/9/2011
"My dream is that every child in the world will have someone to comfort them. -quote on a quilt, titled 'Comfort' made by Nina Lise Moen for the Dream Rocket Project."


Aunt Trish - 3/8/2011
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -Emily Dickinson, Poet"


Aunt Trish - 3/7/2011
"Let others share your sunny days & you will find it true, that others will be glad to share the rainy days with you. -Unknown, found in old cookbook"


Aunt Trish - 3/6/2011
"All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what they have learned. -Will Eisner, American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur”


Aunt Trish - 3/6/2011
3/5/2011 "My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato & someone to share it with. -Oprah Winfrey" (sorry - forgot to put my name on!)


Aunt Trish - 3/5/2011
"And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. -T.S. Eliot"


Aunt Trish - 3/4/2011
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans. -Art Linkletter"


Aunt Trish - 3/3/2011
"I want to feel my life while I'm in it. -Meryl Streep"


Aunt Trish - 3/2/2011
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. -Lena Horne"


Aunt Trish - 3/1/2011
"Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one. - John J. Sweeney, President Emeritus of the AFL-CIO, 2011 Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom" Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_j_sweeney.html#ixzz1FPKhzRKi


Aunt Trish - 2/28/2011
"It's the philosophy of our family that you keep moving. That's the way you have to live your life. ... You have to do things and look at the bright side of life — and remember them (family) with love. -Jean Kennedy Smith, founder Very Special Arts, 2011 Recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom"


Aunt Trish - 2/27/2011
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. -Bill Russell, NBA player & coach, 2011 recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom”


Aunt Trish - 2/26/2011
Eight is Great & you are Awesome - love ya - xoxo


Aunt Trish - 2/25/2011
"The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future. -Stan Musial, Hall of Fame Baseball Player"


Aunt Trish - 2/24/2011
"The willingness to learn new skills is very high. Angela Merkelf First woman Chancellor of a unified Germany"


Aunt Trish - 2/23/2011
"My parents just wanted what was best for their children. -Sylvia Mendez, American civil rights activist"


Aunt Trish - 2/22/2011
"Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. =Yo-Yo Ma, American musician, world-renowned cellist, 16-time Grammy Award winner"


Aunt Trish - 2/21/2011
“Remember the past to make a better future, always have hope, and never give up. Be a true friend even in hard times! -Gerda Weissmann Klein, Holocaust survivor, author and founder of Citizenship Counts”


Aunt Trish - 2/20/2011
"When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. -Jasper Johns, Americsn artist"


Aunt Trish - 2/19/2011
"It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. -Warren Buffett"


Aunt Trish - 2/18/2011
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou,American Poet & Author


Aunt Trish - 2/17/2011
"This is our country. It is ours to cherish; it is ours to protect. That is how we keep faith with future generations. -John H. Adams, co-founder of Natural Resources Defense Council"


Aunt Trish - 2/16/2011
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -Albert Camus"


Aunt Trish - 2/15/2011
"The challenges & difficulty of trying to establish yourself as an artist can often feel endless. I would simply say don't give up; if you are lucky enough to have found art, please share it. - Lauren Dukoff, 25, Photography, Los Angeles, CA"


Aunt Trish - 2/14/2011
"What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge"


Aunt Trish - 2/13/2011
"So be truly glad! There is wonderful joy ahead, even though it is necessary for you to endure many trials for a while. -Peter 1:6"


Aunt Trish - 2/12/2011
"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it. -Salma Hayek"


Aunt Trish - 2/11/2011
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas A. Edison"


Aunt Trish - 2/10/2011
"Chocolate, men, coffee - some things are better rich. ~Author Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 2/9/2011
"The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and life-giving. It is an immense desert place where woman is never lonely, for she senses the weaving of Creation on every hand. It is the physical embodiment of a supernatural existence... For the sea is itself nothing but love and emotion. It is the Living Infinite, as one of your poets has said. Nature manifests herself in it, with her three kingdoms: mineral, vegetable, and animal. The ocean is the vast reservoir of Nature. —Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)"


Aunt Trish - 2/8/2011
"He was a very sweet man, had a heart of gold and wanted to make damn sure people didn't know it. It would have screwed up his image. -Ken Schraeder, NASCAR driver about Dale Earnhardt, Sr., NASCAR legend (1951-2001)"


Aunt Trish - 2/7/2011
Darcel - so, so, so good to see & hear from you. I was going to send today's good thought about the game but had my own miserable loss yesterday when trying to make our game dessert. so here is your good thought that will make your mouth water & maybe inspire you: "When God gives you peanut butter fudge that won't set, make chocolate cake. -Aunt Trish" PS - OMG it is so yummy !!!


Aunt Trish - 2/6/2011
"You've got to stand up & do your own battles. My Daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. -Terry Bradshaw" GO STEELERS !


Aunt Trish - 2/5/2011
"The universe is transformation; our life is what we make it. -Marcus Aurelius"


Aunt Trish - 2/4/2011
"Balance is the perfect state of water. Let it be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface. -Confucius"


Aunt Trish - 2/3/2011
"The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimisical. -James Boswell"


Aunt Trish - 2/2/2011
"Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. -Richard Halloway"


Aunt Trish - 2/1/2011
"Whoever retains the natural curiosity of childhood is never bored or dull. -Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 1/31/2011
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. -Vincent Van Gogh"


Aunt Trish - 1/30/2011
"Wonder is the basis of worship. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 1/29/2011
"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. -Thomas Kempis"


Aunt Trish - 1/28/2011
"We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late. - Marie Bejon Ray"


Aunt Trish - 1/27/2011
"All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. -Helen Keller"


Aunt Trish - 1/26/2011
"The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. -Robert F. Kennedy"


Aunt Trish - 1/25/2011
"Today is a smooth white seashell, hold it close and listen to the beauty of the hours. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 1/24/2011
"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Saint Exupery"


Aunt Trish - 1/23/2011
"Remember this - - very little is needed to make a happy life. -Marcus Aurelius"


Aunt Trish - 1/22/2011
"To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others. -L.E. Landon"


Aunt Trish - 1/21/2011
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller"


Aunt Trish - 1/20/2011
Darcel - so happy to hear the news of your most recent visit to Pittsburgh. I don't want you to be 'crushed' when you have such shining good news. So your good thought for today & probably several more in the next 25 weeks or so: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson" You have several more seasons of nature to enjoy - what a blessing ! XOXOXO


Aunt Trish - 1/19/2011
"Logic will get you from A to B . . . Imagination will take you everywhere. -Albert Einstein"


Aunt Trish - 1/18/2011
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King, Jr."


Aunt Trish - 1/17/2011
"People are like stars, some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. -Jose Marti"


Aunt Trish - 1/16/2011
"Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels. -Joan Walsh Anglund"


Aunt Trish - 1/16/2011
for 1/15/2011 - "Adventure is worthwhile in itself. -Amelia Earhart"


Aunt Trish - 1/14/2011
"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. -Woody Allen"


Aunt Trish - 1/13/2011
"I want to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as Christina imagined it. I want America to be as good as she imagined it. . . All of us -- we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations. -President Barack H. Obama for Christina Taylor Green (9/11/01 to 1/8/11), Tucson, AZ January 12, 2011"


Aunt Trish - 1/12/2011
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water. -Elizabeth Gilbert, auther Eat, Pray, Love"


Aunt Trish - 1/11/2011
"You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give. -Michael Brune, executive director, Sierra Club"


Aunt Trish - 1/10/2011
"And you discover that even when circumstances are beyond your control, life often works out just fine, and sometimes even better than you could have imagined. -Kate Holcombe, founder of healingyoga.org"


Aunt Trish - 1/9/2011
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. -Gandhi"


Aunt Trish - 1/8/2011
"Honest minds are pleased with honest things. -Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher"


Aunt Trish - 1/7/2011
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. -Hans Hofmann"


Aunt Trish - 1/6/2011
"It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. -Laura Ingalls Wilder"


Aunt Trish - 1/5/2011
"Keep a green tree in your heart & perhaps a singing bird will come. -Chinese Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 1/4/2011
"I always have one more dream that has yet to come true. I am always looking forward to something. -Sophia Loren"


Aunt Trish - 1/3/2011
"A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together. -Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 1/2/2011
"Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is I've never felt better in my life. -Ronald Reagan"


Aunt Trish - 1/1/2011
Happy New Year ! For the 7th & final day of Kwanzaa, the quote is appropriately for Faith: "I believe that everyone is keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents and better lovers. -Oprah Winfrey (apologies for misspelling Ms. Winfrey's name on 12-29-10 quote.)"


Aunt Trish - 12/31/2010
"A man who has no imaginatin, has not wings. -Muhammad Ali, quote for the 6th day of Kwanzaa for Creativity"


Aunt Trish - 12/30/2010
Darcel: I am so proud of this graceful journey you have travelled. Your courage has inspired more 'life changes' than you can imagine. Thank you. And now for today's good thought, which you have lived these last eight months: "People are like plants: they bow down & rise up again. - Malagasay saying" for the 5th day of Kwanzaa signifying Purpose.


Aunt Trish - 12/29/2010
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus. -Oprah Winfree, Fourth Day Kwanzaa quote for Cooperation in Economics"


Aunt Trish - 12/28/2010
"Our children must never lose thier zeal for building a better world. -Mary McLeod Bethune, quote for Kwanzaa work & responsibility"


Aunt Trish - 12/27/2010
"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -Marianne Williamson, quote about self-determination"


Aunt Trish - 12/26/2010
"The seven principles of Kwanzaa -- unity, self-determination, collective work & responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity & faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism. -President Bill Clinton"


Aunt Trish - 12/25/2010
"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall. -Larry Wilde, from The Merry Book of Christmas"


Aunt Trish - 12/24/2010
"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. -Burton Hills"


Aunt Trish - 12/23/2010
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -Mary Ellen chase"


Aunt Trish - 12/22/2010
"Remember, this December, that love weighs more than gold. -Josephine didge Daskam Bacon"


Aunt Trish - 12/21/2010
"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. -Norman Vincent Peale"


Aunt Trish - 12/20/2010
"There is a crack, a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen, lyrics from Anthem"


Aunt Trish - 12/19/2010
"One kind word can warm three winter months. -Japanese proverb". My kind word for you today is "cure". xoxoxo


Aunt Trish - 12/18/2010
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. -William Blake"


Aunt Trish - 12/17/2010
"Winter came down to our home one night Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow, And we, we were children once again. -Bill Morgan, Jr."


Aunt Trish - 12/16/2010
"I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. -Will Rogers"


Aunt Trish - 12/15/2010
"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food & warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. -Edith Sitwell"


Aunt Trish - 12/14/2010
"Marge,it's 3 a.m. Shouldn't you be baking? - Homer Simpson" Are you done with making your Christmas cookies yet?


Aunt Trish - 12/13/2010
"Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." - Robert Byrne"


Aunt Trish - 12/12/2010
"My fondest memory of playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers was the twinkle in Arthur J. Rooney's eyes. - Jack Lambert" I can see the twinkle from heaven tonight - GO STEELERS!


Aunt Trish - 12/11/2010
" . . . we are mindful of these things, and we wonder where this magical land might be headed, but Shenandoah never lets us forget that there is still a forest, and it still feels like home. -Paul Schullery in the Discovery Channel book America's National Parks" This is one of Grammy's favorite books lately. SSSSoooooo glad only 4 more treatments to go for you. Love ya.


Aunt Trish - 12/10/2010
"That love . . . was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else. - Scott Spencer, author"


Aunt Trish - 12/9/2010
"If stretching were wealth, the cat would be rich. - African Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 12/8/2010
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is relly no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin"


Aunt Trish - 12/7/2010
"People need Connectors - writers, heroes, stars, leaders, to give life form. A child's sand boat facing the sun. Plastic soldiers in the miniature dirt war. Forts. Garage rocket ships. Ceremonies, theatre, dances . . . a longing for family & the safety magic of childhood. -Jim Morrison 1943-1971"


Aunt Trish - 12/6/2010
So glad the turkey did the trick for treatment #13. Here's what "Arnold" has to say about turkey: "I love Thanksgiving turkey . . . it's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. - Arnold Schwarzenegger"


Aunt Trish - 12/5/2010
"A love that has nothing to do with each other, for I feel my love for each of you is total and all-emcompassing. Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it. -Milton Hershey"


Aunt Trish - 12/4/2010
"It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens. -Chinese proverb" Just brought two evergreen wreaths home today - they smell so wonderful - hope you are enjoying the evergreen season too - love you.


Aunt Trish - 12/3/2010
LOL for Shannon's comment about shocking you in the head. I did that to Uncle Manny & would have had to start running if it weren't for the fact that he was recovering from his broken neck & was medicated! I did get the 'look' though. So your good thought = "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. -Leo Burnett"


Aunt Trish - 12/2/2010
In honor of your 'handful' of treatments to go: "A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I, too, will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. -Fiona Macleod, British poet (1855 - 1905)"


Aunt Trish - 12/1/2010
"Every moment of the year has its own beauty . . . -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 11/30/2010
"Cultivators of the Earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous. -Thomas Jefferson regarding farmers"


Aunt Trish - 11/29/2010
Not a quote but a recipe for a hot toddy that seems to work really well for cold symptoms - it not a cure but it will make you fee less crappy & get a good snooze: Steep a cup of Earl Grey tea to yeild about 8-10 ounces. (Earl Grey has bergomot which smells good) Add a generous tablespoon of honey - use something local if you have it. Add the juice of 1/2 lemon (vitamin C), then cut a small slice & add to the tea (good for the sinuses & smells good too). Last a shot of your favorite liquor or whatever you have on hand (Grand Marnier or Lemoncello is my personal favorite). If you don't want to do the hard stuff, substitute a shot of orange juice (fresh is best, but it's all good). Sip while warm & when not sipping, inhale the steam (aka aromatherapy). If it cools off, nuke in microwave till warm. Feel better, love ya!


Aunt Trish - 11/28/2010
"When music sounds, gone is the earth I know. And all her lovely things lovelier grow. - Walter de la Mare, English poet & writer (1873-1956)"


Aunt Trish - 11/27/2010
"The object of art is to give life shape. -Jean Anouith, French playwright (1910-1987)"


Aunt Trish - 11/26/2010
"There ain't no such thing as a part-time job. -Randy Compton, proprietor of Monica's @ the Park Coffee Shop, San Diego, CA"


Aunt Trish - 11/25/2010
"Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. - attributed to Jacqueline Winspear"


Aunt Trish - 11/24/2010
"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude. -Cynthia Ozick"


Aunt Trish - 11/23/2010
"Like wildflowers in the field, passion makes beautiful the soul. -Unknown, from small fiber art in Dr. Nancy Robinson's dental office, Tempe, AZ"


Aunt Trish - 11/22/2010
'We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see and not just complain about them. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis"


Aunt Trish - 11/21/2010
"Every project does not need to be a masterpiece. To be an artist, one must make art. Just pick up a piece of fabric and do something . . . anything. -Myrna Giesbrecht, quilter"


Aunt Trish - 11/20/2010
"Whatever goodness you are pursuing, continue. -Clarissa Pinkola Estes" You are doing such a good job - onward Warrior Princess - you are wonderful.


Aunt Trish - 11/19/2010
"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. -Kahlil Gibran" So thankful #12 is behind you & that you & Cori had a blue sky for your trip - the pic is great. Love you.


Aunt Trish - 11/18/2010
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. -Unknown" I say a prayer for your good friends often - you & Mike are so blessed to have them.


Aunt Trish - 11/17/2010
"There is time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time. -Coco Chanel"


Aunt Trish - 11/16/2010
"Chocolate doesn't make the world go around ... but it certainly makes the ride worthwhile! -Unknown Chocoholic"


Aunt Trish - 11/15/2010
"Learn something new . . . then teach someone. -Unknown" Good job today - you touched one for sure.


Aunt Trish - 11/14/2010
" . . . the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. -Ecclesiastes 11:7"


Aunt Trish - 11/13/2010
"Silly girl - you are no slacker - stop being hard on yourself - aim that hard ass attitude at the cancer. - Aunt Trish"


Aunt Trish - 11/12/2010
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Winston Churchill" I'm so proud of your optimism - you are amazing.


Aunt Trish - 11/12/2010
11/11/10 "How important it is for us to celebrate our heroes and she-roes. - Maya Angelou" You are my 'she-ro' - love you.


Aunt Trish - 11/10/2010
"Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. -George Eliot"


Aunt Trish - 11/9/2010
"A nature lover is someone who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view. - Anonymous"


Aunt Trish - 11/8/2010
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana"


Aunt Trish - 11/7/2010
"The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. - Apostle Paul's letter to the Galatians"


Aunt Trish - 11/6/2010
"He that plants trees loves others beside himself. From Gnomologia: Adagies & Proverbs edited by Dr. Thomas Fuller"


Aunt Trish - 11/5/2010
"I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. - Whoopi Goldberg" Keep the faith & keep believing. So glad you could talk with Grammy last night - that made her evening. Love you - xoxoxo!


Aunt Trish - 11/4/2010
"It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare" So glad you & your Dad had some time together - you know, you've brought him a long way ! xoxo & love to you all.


Aunt Trish - 11/3/2010
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself in order to get anything done in this world. - Lucille Ball"


Aunt Trish - 11/2/2010
"Failure is impossible. -Susan B. Anthony"


Aunt Trish - 11/2/2010
I have your candle burning bright for high counts tomorrow - xo & love you.


Aunt Trish - 11/1/2010
"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 10/31/2010
"There are three things I’ve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and The Great Pumpkin. -Linus Van Pelt"


Aunt Trish - 10/30/2010
"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. -Erma Bombeck"


Aunt Trish - 10/29/2010
Darcel - In honor of your first snowflake of the season: "A lot of people like snow. I find it an unnecessary freezing of water. -Carl Reiner"


Aunt Trish - 10/28/2010
sorry for the typo - "To change masters is not to be free. -Jose Marti"


Aunt Trish - 10/28/2010
OK - I wanted to find a REALLY good thought for you today. Something appropriate to struggling to keep your counts up. Took me a while. Hope this helps. "To change masters in not to be free. - Jose Marti". Cancer was the master in June, blood counts are the master now. Your positive attitude & kick-ass determination have brought you this far. Find a way to tap into that again & you'll be back at chemo soon. Love you chica.


Aunt Trish - 10/27/2010
"I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. -Beverly Sills"


Aunt Trish - 10/26/2010
"Whatever your powerful mind believes will come to pass. -Paramhansa Yogananda"


Aunt Trish - 10/25/2010
"When the mind is clear, you can see all the way to the heart. -Steven Levine"


Aunt Trish - 10/24/2010
"Wonder is a gift of living. Living is a gift of wonder. -Anne Wilson Schaef from her book 'Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much"


Aunt Trish - 10/23/2010
"What would you be without hope growing deep in your bones, thriving in every inch of you? Nothing. What does it take to hope? Everything. - Mark D. Sanders & Tia Sillers"


Aunt Trish - 10/22/2010
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heavens. -Rabindranath Tagore"


Aunt Trish - 10/21/2010
"There is no Planet B. We can't trash this place and go somewhere else. -Fabien Cousteau"


Aunt Trish - 10/19/2010
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! - Thomas Jefferson"


Aunt Trish - 10/18/2010
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 10/17/2010
"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears or the sea. - Isak Dinesen"


Aunt Trish - 10/16/2010
"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. -Joseph Addison"


Aunt Trish - 10/15/2010
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. -Nelson Mandella"


Aunt Trish - 10/14/2010
"Happy Morning. We have so much to be thankful for this morning. - Thelma Fritz, Somerset County, PA, on her way to Christ Casebeer Lutheran Church the morning after the Q-Creek miners' rescue."


Aunt Trish - 10/13/2010
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller"


Aunt Trish - 10/12/2010
"If there is no wind, row. - Latin Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 10/11/2010
"Angels deliver fate to our doorstep and anywhere else it is needed. -Jessi Lane Adams"


Aunt Trish - 10/10/2010
"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. - Martin Luther" God bless you & Mike today.


Aunt Trish - 10/9/2010
"Adopt the pace of Nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson"


Aunt Trish - 10/8/2010
I am so proud of you Darcel - you were so well-spoken & confident on the radio broadcast - good job chica - it was great to hear you sound so good. Now that the sun is shining a little, get out & romp in the leaves with Josie & Mike. "Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. - Carol Bishop Hipps"


Aunt Trish - 10/7/2010
"Rainbows apologize for angry skies. - Sylvia Voirol"


Aunt Trish - 10/6/2010
"Walking through puddles is my favorite metaphor for life. -Jessi Lane Adams"


Aunt Trish - 10/5/2010
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. -Author Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 10/4/2010
Hope you enjoy this - it is short, sweet & funny ! "Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin"


Aunt Trish - 10/3/2010
"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. -Langston Hughes"


Aunt Trish - 10/2/2010
"Life can be reduced to two phrases: the 'if onlys' and the 'aren't we gratefuls'. - Lady Bird Johnson"


Aunt Trish - 10/1/2010
"If the only prayer you said in your life was 'thank you' that would suffice. -Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic"


Aunt Trish - 9/30/2010
"Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun. -George Scialabba"


Aunt Trish - 9/29/2010
Here are a few lines from one of my favorite songs "One Day", by Matisyahu Miller. When I heard it the other day I thought of you - stay strong. "Sometimes I lay under the moon And I thank God I'm breathing Then I pray 'don't take me soon Cause I am here for a reason'. Sometimes in my tears I drown But I never let it get me down"


Aunt Trish - 9/28/2010
"Sometimes the simplest moments can bring the heart its greatest pleasures. -Flavia" Hope you have lots of simple moments today - xoxo.


Aunt Trish - 9/27/2010
"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day! -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 9/26/2010
"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage. -Logan Pearsall Smith"


Aunt Trish - 9/25/2010
"The most certain sign of wisdom is a continued cheerfulness. -Michel de Montaigne, French essayist"


Aunt Trish - 9/24/2010
So good to see your beautiful smile. "Our smile affirms our awareness & determination to live in peace & joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. -Thich Nhat Hanh"


Aunt Trish - 9/23/2010
"I believe that friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. -Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 9/22/2010
"In loving one another we make all things possible, even the grandest of miracles. -Flavia 2010 calendar" love you bunches!


Aunt Trish - 9/21/2010
"Five simple rules for happiness: 1. Free your heart from hatred. 2. Free your mind from worries. 3. Live simply. 4. Give more. 5. Expect less. - Unknown"


Aunt Trish - 9/20/2010
"Breathing in I dwell in the present moment. Breathing out I feel it is a wonderful moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh" But I like the way Uncle Manny puts it when I ask how his day is going. His reply, "I'm still sucking air!" He sends hugs.


Aunt Trish - 9/19/2010
"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other. -Chinese Proverb"


Aunt Trish - 9/18/2010
"Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight. -Lance Armstrong"


Aunt Trish - 9/17/2010
"Don't try to be such a perfect girl, darling. Do the best you can without too much anxiety or strain. - Jesse Barnard"


Aunt Trish - 9/16/2010
"Strength is built upon inner character. Character is built upon inner strength. -fortune cookie"


Aunt Trish - 9/15/2010
"If there's a universal sound depicting peace, I would surely vote for the purr. -Barbara L. Diamond"


Aunt Trish - 9/14/2010
"A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"


Aunt Trish - 9/13/2010
"I've learned from experience that the greatest part of our happines or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. - Martha Washington" You & Mike have such a great disposition - stay brave - hugs & kisses.


Aunt Trish - 9/12/2010
You guys look great - I never realized you BOTH have what Pap called 'huckleberry eyes'. Keep smiling! "Joy is not in things, it is in us. -Richard Wagner"


Aunt Trish - 9/11/2010
Dearest Darcel: Today I must share your good thought with the crew & passengers of Flight 93, with their families & friends. During the memorial service commemorating their courageous battle in the air over the beautiful countryside so very near your home, I pray that the angels of Flight 93 will share that same courage with you in your battle to regain your good health. Stay brave sweetie & God Bless America. "Let's roll. -Todd Beamer"


Aunt Trish - 9/10/2010
"Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn her back on life. -Eleanor Roosevelt" Hope you have a curiously great day !


Aunt Trish - 9/9/2010
"Good friends are like stars . . . you don't always see them but you know they are always there. -Unknown" hugs & kisses to you today.


Aunt Trish - 9/8/2010
Happy Birthday Chica ! ! "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter & sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, the heart finds its morning & is refreshed. -Kahlil Gibran"


Aunt Trish - 9/7/2010
"Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle"


Aunt Trish - 9/6/2010
"Resting is not idleness, & to lie sometimes on the grass - under a tree on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. - J. Lubbock" Enjoy an idle Labor Day - xoxo


Aunt Trish - 9/5/2010
"Even a moss-covered rock becomes a regal throne with a snoozing cat on top. - Unknown" You look great in the Trib Dem article - hugs to you - xoxo


Aunt Trish - 9/4/2010
"Sleep is the best meditation. - Dalai Lama" Have a restful day - xoxo


Aunt Trish - 9/3/2010
"When we live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. - Thich Nhat Hanh"


Aunt Trish - 9/2/2010
Dearest Darcel - something is working - you are glowing in today's pic - chica, you look GOOD! I'm so awed by your grace & strength. I was hoping you would have a good treatment - thank you for making me feel better about your journey - love you so much & hope you can feel the hugs I'm sending - xoxo.


Aunt Trish - 9/2/2010
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer. -Bruce Graham" Hope I made you smile - love & hugs xoxox.


Aunt Trish - 9/2/2010
"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will pee on your computer. -Bruce Graham" Hope I made you smile - love & hugs xoxox.


Aunt Trish - 9/1/2010
Darcel - "Love is here to bring us shelter and to remind us we are never alone. - Flavia" Love you bunches - xoxo.


Aunt Trish - 8/31/2010
Your good thought for today: "To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Thibault" I imagine good health for you everyday - love & kisses too.


Aunt Trish - 8/30/2010
Your good thought for today: "To know is nothing at all, to imagine is everything. - Anatole France Thibault" I imagine good health for you everyday - love & kisses too.


Aunt Trish - 8/29/2010
Hope you are having a glorious Sunday - my good thought for you today: "The greatest glory in liviing lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela" Hugs


Aunt Trish - 8/28/2010
Darcel - Today's good thought is from Grace Kelly: "Wildflowers are perhaps the most enchanting for me. I love their delicacy, their disarming innocence, & their defiance of life itself." I will send you good thoughts whenever I see wildflowers - love you.


Aunt Trish - 8/27/2010
Darcel - your good thought for today comes from an old favorite: "Be who you are & say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter & those who matter don't mind - Dr. Suess" We are praying for you often - love ya.


Aunt Trish - 8/26/2010
Your good thought today is right on: "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor - Aristotle" You are so very courageous - love & hugs !


Aunt Trish - 8/25/2010
Darcel - hope today's treatment goes as well as last week's. Love you sweetie. "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." - Fernando Flores


Aunt Trish - 8/24/2010
Correction for today's good thought - it's Lee Iacocca & the exact quote is: We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.


Aunt Trish - 8/24/2010
Today's good thought: We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised by insoluble problems. - Lee Iacoca


Aunt Trish - 8/23/2010
Darcel - I hope today's good thought will help you visualize the good things inside your body overcoming the cancer. It is a quote from a 2008 Thich Nhat Hanh Calendary: Inside is made of outside. When we touch our own skin, we touch water, heat, air & earth that are within us. Touching deeply, we realize that the sun is also our heart. Hugs to you today.


Aunt Trish - 8/22/2010
today's good thought: I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, old and new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


Aunt Trish - 8/21/2010
Today's good thought was seen on a little sign in a gelato shop in Laguna Beach, CA: Unattended children will be given espresso & a free kitten !


Aunt Trish - 8/20/2010
Darcel - Your good thought for the day: Move to life's music for it is a beautiful dance - unknown Have a great weekend! Love you


Aunt Trish - 8/19/2010
Darcel: Today's good thought is actually a Traditional Children's Prayer - but we are never too old to make a wish: "Star light, star bright, first star I've seen tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight." Take a stroll on your deck this evening & make a wish - love ya.


Aunt Trish - 8/18/2010
Darcel - Today's good thought for you: There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is. - Albert Einstein (who knew genius could be so spiritual !)


Aunt Trish - 8/17/2010
This day's good thought: When you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill


Aunt Trish - 8/17/2010
correction on yesterday's good thought - Speak your mind EVEN if your voice shakes. - Bumper Sticker


Aunt Trish - 8/16/2010
Speak your mind, enen if your voice shakes. - bumper sticker


Aunt Trish - 8/15/2010
Darcel - I've my spin on the gender of today's good thought for you - Mr. Morley shouldn't mind. "When you sell a woman a book, you don't sell her 12 ounces of paper & ink & glue - - you sell her a whole new life." - Christopher Morley . . . Have you decided on your next read?


Aunt Trish - 8/14/2010
Darcel - try to have some fun today! Your good/fun thought for today: If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn


Aunt Trish - 8/13/2010
Today's good thought for you: The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller


Aunt Trish - 8/12/2010
they say misery loves company - I think scared loves company too - it's easier to be scared together - I'm with ya girlfriend - love you soooooo much.


Aunt Trish - 8/12/2010
A man who does not love cats will never have a pretty woman. - Dutch saying


Aunt Trish - 8/11/2010
Count your blessings not your crosses, count your winnings not your losses. - Irish Blessing


Aunt Trish - 8/10/2010
Sending good thoughts your way with lots of love: "Hope" is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul . . . and sings the tune without words and never stops ... at all. - Emily Dickinson


Aunt Trish - 8/9/2010
Make a nest of pleasant thoughts. - John Ruskin


Aunt Trish - 8/8/2010
Keep your face to the sunshine & you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller


Aunt Trish - 8/7/2010
In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. - Alice Walker


Aunt Trish - 8/6/2010
"It is our choices . . . that show (who) we truly are, far more than our abilities." JK Rowling from 'Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets'


Aunt Trish - 8/5/2010
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet & the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran


Aunt Trish - 8/4/2010
sending good thoughts to you every day. Today = those who pray with joy, pray with power.