ivy du jour

2009-05-07T06:16:00.000-07:00

[On Vacation] Think Good Thoughts Do Good Things

2009-05-04T12:20:00.000-07:00

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon or last day of your vacation.

2009-05-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

NOTE: May Day is also Labor Day in most countries -

hence the tie between the picture and the quote (loosely!)

2009-04-30T06:52:00.000-07:00

Always look on the bright side of life...

Eric Idle, Monty Python

2009-04-29T06:41:00.000-07:00

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 3:16

2009-04-28T07:07:00.001-07:00

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours." - Dr. Robert Anthony

2009-04-27T06:34:00.000-07:00

Just another reason to love Phoenix, Arizona.

2009-04-24T06:26:00.000-07:00

To thine own self be true.

William Shakespeare

Polonius to son Laertes, HAMLET

2009-04-23T06:41:00.001-07:00

When the wind stops, row.

Proverb

2009-04-22T08:45:00.000-07:00

Through your breath you can affect your emotions.

Jai Sundararaman

2009-04-21T08:02:00.000-07:00

Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown

2009-04-20T07:36:00.000-07:00

We make a living by what we get...

We make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

2009-04-17T07:01:00.000-07:00

when it rains, a poem

when it rains

unexpectedly

God has given us a little reason

to slow down

2009-04-16T07:04:00.000-07:00

Live your dreams.

Susan Boyle, 47

I Dreamed A Dream, Britain's Got Talent

2009-04-15T07:51:00.000-07:00

Never kiss behind a garden gate;

Love it blind... but neighbors ain't.

2009-04-14T06:06:00.000-07:00

Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked too but if you press the wrong button you'll be disconnected!!

2009-04-13T07:23:00.000-07:00

Happiness is like perfume.

You can't share it with someone else without getting a little on yourself.

2009-04-10T06:38:00.000-07:00

[5 And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

6 He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.]

Matthew 28

2009-04-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

[Happiness is the result of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.]

Proverb

2009-04-08T06:27:00.000-07:00

Matthew 26:41

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak

EASTER WEEK

2009-04-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

[And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.] ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

2009-04-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

[Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;

it is generally the by-product of other activities.]

Aldous Huxley

2009-04-03T06:51:00.000-07:00

[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.] Albert Einstein

2009-04-02T06:28:00.000-07:00

[Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant]

2009-04-01T07:53:00.000-07:00

[The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.]

Joseph Addison

2009-03-31T07:04:00.000-07:00

[Don't look for one right answer. This keeps you from seeking less-obvious alternatives that might provide more creative solutions.]

Anonymous

2009-03-30T05:31:00.000-07:00

[Why not learn to enjoy the little things, there are so many of them.]

~Anonymous

2009-03-27T07:06:00.000-07:00

[It's a shame to be caught up in something that doesn't absolutely make you tremble with joy!] Julia Child

for her... it was Mastering the Art of French Cooking

2009-03-26T06:29:00.000-07:00

Case Study House #22 1960 Black & white photograph (Getty Museum)

Pierre Koenig, architect

Julius Shulman, architectural photographer

[I am thinking, of course, of the heroic night-time view of Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22 which seems so memorably to capture the whole spirit of late twentieth-century architecture. There, hovering almost weightlessly above the bright lights of Los Angeles, spread out like a carpet below, is an elegant, light, economical and transparent enclosure whose apparent simplicity belies the rigorous process of investigation that made it possible. If I had to choose one snapshot, one architectural moment, of which I would like to have been the author, this is surely it.]

Norman Foster

Inspired by discussion of our childhood dreams last night (Jeff & Ivy chats) - I dream of being an architect...

2009-03-25T07:14:00.000-07:00

[Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;

All things give way before it, soon or late..]

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

2009-03-24T07:27:00.000-07:00

[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,

Can circumvent or hinder or control

The firm resolve of a determined soul.]

Emma Wheeler Wilcox

2009-03-23T06:26:00.000-07:00

[...men are that they might have joy.] Book of Mormon

2009-03-20T07:29:00.000-07:00

[May you live all the days of your life.]

Jonathan Swift

2009-03-19T06:22:00.000-07:00

2009-03-18T08:43:00.000-07:00

[Happiness is not a destination, but a journey.]

Anonymous

2009-03-17T07:46:00.000-07:00

[ I'm a big believer in luck and I see that the harder I work, the luckier I am.]

loosely quoted from my daily thoughts

2009-03-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

[Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"]

Robin Williams

2009-03-13T06:49:00.000-07:00

[No Pain, No Gain]

2009-03-12T06:36:00.000-07:00

[It's the time you have spent with your rose that makes it so important.]

Antoine Saint-Exupery

Le Petit Prince; The Little Prince

2009-03-11T10:42:00.000-07:00

[“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”Ralph Waldo Emerson]