The Daily Rant: No Lifeguard On Duty

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What People Are Saying About Salena And The Daily Rant

"...one of the earliest, most prolific, and more importantly, still published trucker blogs on the ‘net." ~ Tom Kelley, The Deadline Factory
"Tucson trucker is one cool lady and a rare breed." ~ Ryn Gargulinski, TucsonCitizen.com
"This seals it. You are the most interesting woman since Joan of Arc." ~ CT, New York
"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

Words I Wish Were Mine

“Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” ~ Omar Khayyám
"Memento Vivere" (Remember To Live)
"There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive." ~ B.C. Forbes (Founder of Forbes Magazine)
"It's OK to show up and suck until you can show up and shine." ~ Baron Baptiste, International Yoga Teacher
"Hell really is other people." ~ Danielle Cantor
"Ain't nuthin' to it but to do it." ~ Charlie's Dad
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"Earth's crammed with heaven." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~ Helen Keller
"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." ~ St. Augustine
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves." ~ Euripedes
"If you can't annoy someone, there's little point in writing."~ Kingsley Amis
"Only when the last tree has died & the last river has been poisoned & the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money." ~ Cree Indian Prophecy
"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few touch what you are." ~ Machiavelli, The Prince
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." ~ Albert Einstein
"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

Monday, March 09, 2009

No Lifeguard On Duty

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