"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
Herman Melville


...unfortunately. We are connected, but not all connections are positive. As the connection endures, we have to endure.

"No good deed goes unpunished."
Clare Booth Luce

A cynical observation by a worldly woman.

"A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life."
~Irish Saying


Happy Birthday to my daughter.

"I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances."
—Martha Washington

Do we know if our dispositions stem from our circumstances, or our circumstances from our dispositions? According to new research done by Jerome Kagan, a psychologist at Harvard, people are born with their dispositions. He has proven that it is possible to see in infants the characteristics of an anxious personality. I would like to see the research that shows us how to improve our dispositions, and by extension, our circumstances.

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A local fellow, our Henry. A local quote for the local rain.

"Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
Mohandas Gandhi


Today is the 140th Anniversary of the Mahatma's birthday.

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
- Oscar Wilde




OUCH! Called on the carpet by the master himself.