"First -- if you are in love -- that's a good thing -- that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don't let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second -- There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you -- of kindness and consideration and respect -- not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had." -John Steinbeck in a letter to his teenage son.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Love
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Cross Country
"...and the golden time in the West was one dream." -John Steinbeck
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Remote
"The morning is the conscious time, but the afternoon is a time in which we should deal much more with the hinterland of the consciousness." -Anthony Burgess
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Friday, February 22, 2013
Summit
"It's easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is much better at the top." -Henry Ward Beecher
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
Self
"Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance." -Noel Carroll, Irish middle distance runner
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Happy Place
(Also, go Santa Fe -- No. 4 most happy city!). Read the full article from The Atlantic here.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Presidents' Day
"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." -Thomas Jefferson
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Sunday, February 17, 2013
Distance
"I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is really just a squeal of pain. It is incredible how essential to me you have become." -Vita Sackville-West
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Saturday, February 16, 2013
A Rose
"For nothing this wide universe I call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou art my all." -Shakespeare
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Mind Over Body
"Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic." -Tim Noakes
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Valentine
"The day you say 'I love you less,' will mark the end of my love and the last day of my life. If my heart were base enough to love without being loved in return I would tear it to pieces." -Napoleon Bonaparte to his love Josephine
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
A Modern-day Indiana Jones
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Daffodils
"Certainly they must be the most exhibitionistic flowers there are / trumpeting their presence in yellow -- by far the most visible colour." -Gavin EwartD
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Thursday, February 7, 2013
Westward
"I like a destination which pulls
true, deliberate,
but at great distance."
-Bruce Willard
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Need for Speed
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Uncomfortable
"I want to move people out of the suburbs of their mind." -John Callahan
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Beyond Self
"My own life isn't terribly interesting, even to myself, and that... [is] why I write about people and places so different from the ones I know." -Stewart O'Nan
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Historical
"I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it." -Gertrude Stein
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Missouri foal
The little baby Clydesdale was born right down the road in Boonville, Mo.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
This Side of Paradise
"January finally drags into February and one fumbles with numb fingers at the ordinary knots and hooks of life. People are irritable, difficult. Some days you want to stay in bed with the covers over your head and dream of paradise." -Louis Jenkins
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