22/365

“True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like leaves, found everywhere.”

21/365

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”

-Ayn Rand

20/365

“it was exciting that the world was taking notice of what was happening in our backyard -- whether or not the music was the kind that I really cared for.”

-Pearl Jam

19/365

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens;
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens;
Brown paper packages tied up with strings;
These are a few of my favorite things.
-Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers - The Sound of Music

18/365

“You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something”

17/365

“Our signature event, ... is the balloon glow.”
-Kathy Parsons

16/365

“No one wants to come out of the polar plunge an ice sculpture.”

-Beth Peterson

15/365

(The taxi/boats are called Tenders)

“Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life”

-Rober Louis Stevenson

14/365

“I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”

-Lord Alfred Tennyson

13/365

“I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.”

-Morris K. Udall

12/365

“I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house-top.”

11/365

“A mutt is couture -- it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.”

-Julia Szabo

10/365

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”

-Victor Hugo

9/365

“As you slide down the banister of life, may all the splinters be going in the right direction”

8/365

“Terrific. Welcome to Pelican Park, Agnes. I hope you'll enjoy what you see tonight.”

-Craig Shelbourne

7/365

Last night I had a dream. I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonged to me, the other to the Lord.

After the last scene of my life flashed before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. I noticed that at many times along the path of my life, especially at the very lowest and saddest times, there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it. “Lord, you said once I decided to follow you, You’d walk with me all the way. But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life, there was only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”

The Lord replied, “My son, my precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of suffering, when you could see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”

-Mary Stevenson

6/365

"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience."
-Lester Bangs

5/365

Raining Sunshine

“Clouds may come, but clouds must go, and they all have a silver lining. For behind each cloud you know, the sun, or moon, is shining.”

4/365

“In Mexico we have a word for sushi: Bait”
-Jose Simon

3/365

“I didn't ask for it to be over, but then again, I never asked for it to begin. For that's the way it is with life, as some of the most beautiful days come completely by chance. But even the most beautiful days eventually have their sunsets.”

2/365

“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”

1/365

“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea”

-Dylan Thomas