"Words are all we have."

-Samuel Beckett.

aoccdring to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtsy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

"If you have bought this book, dear reader, I thank you. If you have borrowed it, I honor your frugality. If you have stolen it, may it add to your confusion."

Author Wendell Berry, in his preface to Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community

Alas for those who never sing, but die with their music in them.

--Oliver Wendell Holmes

I sit in my tent tonight at the top of the pass (3910m) an exhausted wreck, but relieved and overjoyed that I have made it through one of the most mentally and physically challenging days of the trip so far.

my old highschool mate rob from somewhere in kyrgyzstan
14degrees.org Check it out.

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

Creative children look twice, listen for smells, dig deeper, build dream castles, get from behind locked doors, have a ball, plug in the sun, get into and out of deep water, sing in their own key.

--Paul Torrance, 1973 (from The Arts As Meaning Makers)

i can't remember all the times i tried to tell myself to hold onto these moments as they pass.

- counting crows

...while in all things that we see or do, we are to desire perfection, and strive for it, we are nevertheless not to set the meaner thing, in its narrow accomplishment, above the nobler thing, in its mighty progress; not to esteem smooth minuteness above shattered majesty....

-John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

Standard scrabble rules apply: No kicking, biting or slapping, no projectiles of any kind.

Dilbert's mom

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

-Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)

"Thanks for coming to math class! I love you all already!"

-Joan, Lyndsay's Primary/Junior Math instructor

The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Chesterton

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."

--Albert Einstein

(Happy back to school week, everybody!)