egged on

happy eggs come from smiling chickens, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

-- Mark Twain

womb

womb, originally uploaded by McBeth.

STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'.

REG: What?!

LORETTA: It's my right as a man.

JUDITH: Well why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?

LORETTA: I want to have babies.

REG: You want to have babies?

LORETTA: It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them.

REG: But- you can't have babies.

LORETTA: Don't you oppress me.

REG: I'm not oppressing you, Stan. You haven't got a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate? You going to keep it in a box?”

cut off

rising tide, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

-- Henry Miller

qu'attendez-vous

necking, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

-- Marcus Aurelius

springtime pulses

veined, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

-- George Eliot

treasure

pot of gold, originally uploaded by McBeth.

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

inescapable

in the woods, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

-- Pippin

repetition

try try again, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

-- Mark Twain

swimming

how the swedish make sushi, originally uploaded by McBeth.

How I wish, how I wish you were here...

We're just two lost souls
swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year....

Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.


Wish you were here.

-- Pink Floyd

the funerial palette

her red tent, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

-- Bill Blass

a scourge on your houses

a determined tulip cannot be stopped, originally uploaded by McBeth.

OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

-- Ambrose Bierce

offerings

tasty morsels, originally uploaded by McBeth.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

-- George Washington

partners

it takes two, originally uploaded by McBeth.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

-- Nelson Mandela

make it a double

when the party's over, originally uploaded by McBeth.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

-- Al Capone

making sure

oh, about three feet, originally uploaded by McBeth.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

-- Mae West

be flexible

kelsy schoenhaar, originally uploaded by McBeth.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper.

-- George Santayana

eagle watching

eagle eyes, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

-- Sitting Bull

the golden years

the golden years, originally uploaded by McBeth.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

-- Tennessee Williams

your attention please

outbound flight, originally uploaded by McBeth.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

-- Edward de Bono

waiting

vanilla vodka , originally uploaded by McBeth.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

-- Kathleen Norris