The Daily Rant: We Are A Very Rich, Blessed, Lucky, Fortunate Lot Aren't We?

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2012: Passion Creates Pure Art
2011: Reflecting On The Day
2010: Crunching The Numbers
2009: Looking Grand At The Grand Canyon
2008: Overshadowing Government
2007: Miami International
2006: Did You Check The Solenoid?
2005: Sorry, no post on this day. The blog didn’t start until May 2005!

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"...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

"True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, nor can it be hidden where it truly does." ~ François de la Rochefoucauld
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness." ~ Mark Twain
"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from." ~ Seth Godin, Tribes
"Memento Vivere" (Remember To Live)
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"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)
"Hell really is other people." ~ Danielle Cantor
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." ~ George Bernard Shaw
"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
"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
"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
"A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice." ~ Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
"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
"Only the dead fish swim with the stream all of the time." ~ Linda Ellerbee

Sunday, January 13, 2013

We Are A Very Rich, Blessed, Lucky, Fortunate Lot Aren't We?

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