Today

So today I was going through some old books of mine and found something from at least 10 years ago. It was a book of peoms and quotes that I had apparently gathered over the years. It was intersting to find and some of them are really good. I thought maybe others would enjoy them as well so I am going to put them in here...I promise to write small( did i just really type that). I mean that I will TYPE small. Started a new book and who knows if I will ever finish but it's call " The Shack", a friend told me about it at least 6 months ago and it has literally taken me this long to get it. My procrastination will be the death of me.

* Favorites: 'The trail compels you to know yourself and to be yourself and puts you in harmony with the universe. It makes you glad to be living. It gives you health, hope, courage and extends that touch of nature which tends to make you kind' - Enos Mills

'The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but have less, we buy more but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more convenience but less time. we have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge but less judgment, more experts yet more problems, more medicine but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend to recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray to seldom. We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love to seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things but not better things. We've cleaned up the air but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom but not our prejudice. We write more but learn less. We plan more but accomplish less. We've learned to rush but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men but small character, steep profits and shallow realtionships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away-morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight or to just hit delete. * I want to say that George Carlin wrote this when his wife died. It was a forward my grandmother sent to me.

'I love you, my brother, whoever you are- whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers od the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offereing completeness of spirit to all, eager to recieve all' -Kahlil Gibran

*** Thats all for now. Headed out to the BIG wedding this weekend. ***