The Daily Rant: A Mid-Winter Pick Me Up

What People Are Saying About Salena And The Daily Rant

"OMG, you ROCK." ~ Shelley, New York, NY
"I will always be a loyal Daily Rant follower!!" ~ Julia, Nutley, NJ
"...you are simply the best truck driver/chef/photographer/diarist on earth. I have checked out the others and they don't measure up. Bravo!" - Charles, Long Island, NY
"It's been a privilege to have crossed paths with you." ~ Martha, Mason, OH
"I believe you have more creativity in your pinky than I have in my entire body!" ~ Mike, Cincinnati, OH
"Great blog...really enjoyed reading it. You can write girl!" ~ Dan, Toronto, ON
"OK, Salena, I don't know you but I adore you!" ~ Lori, Bethesda, MD
"You are one cool lady!" ~ Ryn, Tucson, AZ

Words I Wish Were Mine

"I need this wild life, this freedom." ~ Zane Grey
"Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam." ~ Goethe
"Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." ~ Miriam Beard
"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see." ~ G.K. Chesterton
"A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice." ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live." ~ Flora Whittemore
"Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me - leading wherever I choose." ~ Walt Whitman
"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what this world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive." ~ Henri Matisse
"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?" ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"When love is not madness, it is not love." ~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
"Only the dead fish swim with the stream all of the time." ~ Linda Ellerbee