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“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd” Flannery O’Conner

Stagger onward rejoicing  (From a poem: Atlantis by WH Auden) [One stanza of the poem:] Stagger onward rejoicing; And even then if, perhaps Having actually got To the last col, you collapse With all Atlantis shining Below you yet you cannot Descend, you should still be proud Even to have been allowed Just to peep…

“Let nothing disturb you.Let nothing upset you.Everything changes.God alone is unchanging.With patience all things are possible.Whoever has God lacks nothing.God alone is enough.” Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582)

 “Do you want a guaranteed great seat in heaven, near the dessert table? Help take care of (sic) parents with newborns.”  Anne Lamott

“Do you come on like Shorty George and me? Just speel some jive, we’ll dig you out, you see. Well, all reet! Are you ready? Yes, we’re ready, Joe! Jumping steady? Jumping steady, Joe! You look solid, Joe, All I want to know, Are you all reet? Yes, we’re all reet! You can get it Yes, we get it! If you set it Yes, we set it,…

“When it’s not always raining there’ll be days like this When there’s no one complaining there’ll be days like this When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch Well my mama told me there’ll be days like this When you don’t need to worry there’ll be days like this When no one’s…

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” Martin Buber

“One way to start to shift out of the obscured false self way of living is to begin to develop awareness, to awaken the senses, to look, listen, feel, and touch as the small child does—to return to one’s senses.”  Thomas Merton

We took a poll, sample size of four – our whole family, it showed 100% consensus: The best taco in the Estados Unidos, is found at Victor Villa’s Taco in Los Ángeles, California. No lo habríamos encontrado si no hubiéramos visto el espectáculo de medio tiempo del Super Bowl. They were always busy and now…

“It’s good to take a brisk walk every day, And it will do wonders to improve your mood. And you may run into Claude Monet, Or Chopin humming his Tristesse étude. Jack Benny, Bessie Smith, stand not far apart, Bill and Marilyn Monroe, you never know, The Duke of Earl, Amelia Earhart, Vincent van Gogh…