• Feb 14th,1997 (and still true in 2000!!): ANYTHING THAT IS GOOD AND USEFUL IS MADE OF CHOCOLATE.
  
  
• Feb. 22: Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing...
  
  
• March 10: Man is not the sum of what he has already,
  but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.
  (JEAN-PAUL SARTRE)
  
  
• March 15: Compassion is the state of being in touch with the bright, beautiful and flawed nature of humanity. (from Michael Butler's pages)
  
  
• March 22: Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw!
  
  
• April 4: "Designing pages in HTML is like having sex in a bathtub. If you don't know anything about sex, it won't help to know a lot about bathtubs."
  (from THE DAUGHTERS OF THE WOLF)
  
  
• May 12: In the Real World
  As in Dreams..
  Nothing is quite
  What it seems...
  (from THE BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS)
  
  
• May 21: We work not only to produce but to give value to time.
  (EUGENE DELACROIX)
  
  
• May 29: What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
  (BRANCUSI)
  
  
• May 30 -- (on the lighter side) : "If it's big and dark green and its bite makes you scream - that's a moray!" (from LISA's Journal)
  
  
• June 6: Es gibt Menschen auf der Welt, welche die Gabe haben, überall Freude zu finden und sie zurückzulassen, wenn sie gehen.
  (There are people in the world , who have the gift to find joy everywhere,
  and to leave it behind, when they go.)
  (FABER) (danke, Gerhild!)
  
  
• June 8: The trouble with doing something right the first time
  is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.
  
  
  
  
• June 16: To succeed you have to believe in something
  with all your heart and passion
  until it becomes a reality.
  (lifted from CHRISTINE MACKENZIE's desk in W. Hollywood)
  
  
• July 14: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  (OSCAR WILDE)
  
  
• August 1: Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
  Some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.
  (ANONYMOUS)
  
  
• Nov. 10: "It's funny about love. How you think you're in love,
  or you think you know your capacity for love.
  And suddenly someone comes along and shows you whole new rooms in your heart."
  (from BLOOD AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WATER)
  
  
• Nov. 18: It takes rain to make rainbows,
  and sometimes it takes difficulties to make us stronger and better people.
  The sun will shine again, you'll see...
  (la tristesse @geocities.com )
  
  
• Nov. 27: THANKSGIVING:
  If you can't be satisfied with what you have received,
  be thankful for what you have escaped.
  (Anonymous, via LITA (lnorth@lorax.admin.arizona.edu)
  
  
• Jan. 21, 1998: Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you.
  Only the pig looks you in the eye.
  (from PETER MAYLE's Book "Chasing Cezanne")
  
  
• Jan. 26 : "LOVE is not two people gazing at each other,
  but two people looking ahead together in the same direction."
  ( a birthday thought from ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY)
  
  
• Feb. 1: If you ain't makin' waves, you ain't kickin' hard enough!
  (Anonymous, via KARIN, who also sent the next three musings, titled "HA!" (Karin4000@aol.com)
  
  
• Feb. 10: Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
  
  
• Feb.14: When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
  
  
• Feb. 24: Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film...
  
  
• March 1: Is it so small a thing
  To have enjoyed the sun,
  To have lived light in the spring,
  To have loved, to have thought, to have done.
  (MATTHEW ARNOLD)
  
  
• March 13: The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain
  and simple to express:
  Err, and err, and err again
  but less, and less, and less.
  (PIET HEIN)
  
  
• March 21: I get this question all the time: "why arent' you married"?
  And my answer is always: "I dont' want to give up the admiration of many for the criticism of one"!
  (CLARA, photographer in New York; smart, successful and independent)
  
  
• April 1: Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
  (GEORGE CARLIN)
  
  
• April 7: "Wildflowers are the desert's laughter,
  the quiet music decorating naked mesas and flinted canyons."
  (TIM FITZHARRIS, in Fields of Dreams).
  
  
• April 15: "Money is better than poverty,
  if only for financial reasons."
  (WOODY ALLEN)
  
  
• Friday the 13th:They say that hard work wont hurt you, but why take a Chance?
  
  
• MAY 5: "The love we give away is never gone;
  it is kept in the hearts of others."
  (UNKNOWN, via Danielle Tringali, SUNY Potsdam - tringa86@potsdam.edu)
  
  
• May 18: Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
  If you can't do it well but have to do it, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
  (CLAY, who can fold money into the most amazing shapes - and does it very well!
  
  
• May 20: Das Leben zeigt sich nur in der Gestalt des Übergangs.
  (Life only shows itself in the form of change.)
  (FRIEDRICH HEBBEL)
  
  
• May 29: Goals without time limits are only wishes...
  (?)
  
  
• July 14: Nature gives you the face you have at twenty;
  it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
  (COCO CHANEL, famous French fashion designer 1883-1970)
  
  
  

Randomly added thoughts and ruminations, whenever I come across them, in 1999 and beyond:

Some advice to get you off to a good start:

Live Life, Feel Love, Give Hugs, and Laff Lots !!!

• 
  Work like you don't need the money
  Love like you've never been hurt
  Dance as if no one's looking
  Always stay a step ahead of the storm -
  and
  If life gives you lemons, make lemonade, and call a friend.
  
  
  

  And now let's ruminate:

• A conscience is what hurts you when all other parts feel so good ...
  (ANONYMOUS, of course!)
  
  
• He who laughs last, thinks slowest!
  (ditto)
  
  
• There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.
  
  
• Indecision is the key to flexibility.
  
  
• Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world.
  
  
• "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
  (JOHN ANDREW HOLMES)
  
  
• MIND LIKE A STEEL TRAP - RUSTY AND ILLEGAL IN 37 STATES.
  (was that a sign somewhere??)
  
  
• If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.
  
  
• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
  (GEORGE CARLIN - again!)
  
  
• You don't stop laughing because you grow old;
  you grow old because you stop laughing.
  
  
• "Manchmal muss man springen in dem Vertrauen darauf,
  daß einem während des Fluges Flügel wachsen werden."
  (Sometimes you have to jump, confident that you will grow wings in flight.)
  (STEPHAN BAUER)
  
  BUT - just in case...:
  
• NEVER DRIVE FASTER THAN YOUR ANGEL CAN FLY!!
  (Advice from the Internet)
  
  
• The older you get, the better you realize you were.
  
  
• "All animals except man know that the ultimate purpose of life is to enjoy it."
  (SAMUEL BUTLER)
  
  
• "When all your wishes have been granted,
  many of your dreams will be destroyed."
  (Anonymous?)
  
  
• "If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?"
  
  
• Some concerns about my second language:
  Why is it that no word in the English language rhymes with
  month, orange, silver, or purple?
  (I'm going to work on finding a rhyme, want to help?)
  
  Why don't tomb, comb, and bomb sound alike?
  
  Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
  
  Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
  
  Is there another word for synonym?
  
  
• Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather
  because it's much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?
  
  
• If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
  
  
• Computers will save your life at the exact moment they ruin it.
  (Mancub212@aol.com)
  
  
• Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
  
  
• Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure. ;-)
  
  
• On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
  BUT: You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
  
  
• to be continued...