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JohnT · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:11 am Post subject:

“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”

― Dominic Riccitello

Teri · Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:25 am Post subject:

September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

JohnT · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:34 am Post subject:

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”

― Stephen King, 'Salem's Lot'
― Stephen King (born September, 1947), American author. He was already a successful novelist when 'Salem's Lot' was published in 1975.

JohnT · Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2020 8:56 pm Post subject:

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

-- Oprah Winfrey (born 1954) is an American talk show host, author, reading promoter.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:08 am Post subject:

Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

— James Baldwin (1924–1987)
He was an American novelist, playwright and activist.

JohnT · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2020 12:32 pm Post subject:

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds.

You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.

— Unknown

JohnT · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2020 6:25 am Post subject:

I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out—plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.

— from The Message, Jeremiah 29:11

JohnT · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:05 am Post subject:

On the topic of restoring justice:

"So what are we restoring? For me it’s about returning to the part of us that really wants to be connected to one another in a good way. Returning to the goodness inherent in all of us."

— Fania Davis, California lawyer and activist

Teri · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:16 am Post subject:

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. ~Rumi

JohnT · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:06 pm Post subject:

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with BS.”

― W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946) was an American comedian, actor and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist.

Edited a bit because of the BS part.

Teri · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2020 5:55 am Post subject:

Wounds heal and become scars. But scars grow with us. ~Stanisław J. Lec

Teri · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2020 7:17 am Post subject:

I am a raging sea trapped in a raindrop. ~Author Unknown

Teri · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 6:13 am Post subject:

Roads diverge in the wood and I start climbing trees. ~Craig Childs

JohnT · Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2020 9:28 pm Post subject:

Lately, we fall asleep with more weight on our bodies, minds and souls.
Yet, every morning our eyelids open up, our muscles lift, our neurons fire and our body performs countless miracles to keep us going.

But the greater miracle is how we keep each other going, how sharing love and courage gives hope to all of us who just want humanity to feel more whole right now.

We humans, we are incredible.
Our collective strength draws from every single body. Let’s keep taking care of ours, let’s keep taking care of each other.

― not exact, but close to the words from an infomercial for Advent Health, a local hospital provider.

Teri · Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2020 7:05 am Post subject:

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes. ~Robert Brault