tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59997557941342809072024-03-18T08:00:33.593-04:00Day In & Day OutA blog about art, creativity, design, and life.Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.comBlogger2318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-58386186454579395562024-03-18T08:00:00.012-04:002024-03-18T08:00:00.134-04:00Quotes: Friedrich Nietzsche<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Be careful, lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon."</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German poet and philosopher </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-14477533607822313502024-03-17T08:00:00.012-04:002024-03-17T08:00:00.126-04:00Quotes: Carl Jung<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, March 11, 2024.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-42509132513734450622024-03-16T08:00:00.025-04:002024-03-16T08:00:00.128-04:00Quotes: Cecil Day-Lewis<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand." </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972), Anglo-Irish poet </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Source: C. Day-Lewis. <i>The Poetic Image </i>quoted in Gabrielle Lusser Rico. <i>Writing the Natural Way</i>. New York: J.P. Tarcher, 1983; p. 29. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-89800246093774632162024-03-15T08:00:00.002-04:002024-03-15T08:00:00.135-04:00Quotes: Rūmī<p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Let yourself be drawn by the strange pull of what you love. It will not lead you astray."</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– </span><span style="color: black; font-family: -webkit-standard;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207-1273), Persian poet and Sufi mystic; interpretation by Coleman Barks (b. 1937), American poet </span></span></span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-28717784073167555372024-03-14T08:00:00.000-04:002024-03-14T11:03:50.038-04:00Quotes: Anthony Robbins<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone." </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Anthony Robbins (b. 1960), American author and public speaker </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Daily Philosopher, Instagram, March 6, 2024.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-72799052023819072792024-03-13T08:00:00.002-04:002024-03-13T08:00:00.138-04:00Quotes: Jane Goodall<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">"I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life."</span> </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Jane Goodall (b. 1934), English primatologist and anthropologist </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Nitch, Instagram, March 6, 2024.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-85194461594909480262024-03-12T08:00:00.002-04:002024-03-12T08:00:00.158-04:00Quotes: Carl Jung<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"Where your fear is, there your task is."</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist </span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-11321234559505290372024-03-11T08:00:00.013-04:002024-03-11T08:00:00.361-04:00Quotes: 14th Dalai Lama <p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">"If a problem is fixable, if a solution is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: large;">If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying."</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– 14th Dalai Lama (b. 1935), Tibetan Buddhist monk, born Tenzin Gyatso </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Elissa Epel. <i>The Stress Prescription</i>. New York: Penguin Books, 2022; p. 33.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-52434855588577342882024-03-10T08:00:00.006-04:002024-03-10T08:00:00.247-04:00Quotes: Teju Cole<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Be the strange you wish to see in the world." </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Teju Cole (b. 1975), Nigerian-American novelist and photographer</span> </p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-42664123211589064822024-03-09T08:00:00.014-05:002024-03-09T08:00:00.170-05:00Quotes: Richard Diebenkorn<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Notes to myself on beginning a painting by Richard Diebenkorn</span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">1. Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">2. The pretty, initial position which falls short of completeness is not to be valued – except as a stimulus for further moves.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">3. Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">4. Use and respond to the initial fresh qualities but consider them expendable.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">5. Don't "discover" a subject – of any kind.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">6. Somehow don't be bored but if you must, use it in action. Use its destructive potential.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">7. Mistakes can't be erased but they move you from your present position.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">8. Keep thinking about Pollyanna.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">9. Tolerate chaos.</span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">10. Be careful only in a perverse way. </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">–– Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), American painter and printmaker</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">Source: Lari Washburn, Instagram, Thursday February 8, 2024.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">via: Sketchbook 33, 2024, p. 146.</span></span></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-73204147751342390942024-03-08T08:00:00.012-05:002024-03-08T08:00:00.130-05:00Quotes: Sharon Stone<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Style is what you do with what's wrong with you." </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Sharon Stone (b. 1958), American actress </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Source: Austin Kleon, November 10, 2023 </span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-54920173783539025122024-03-07T08:00:00.014-05:002024-03-07T08:00:00.131-05:00Quotes: Michael Heizer<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Any work of art of any worth (not a Hallmark card) is going to upset someone." </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Michael Heizer (b. 1944), American land artist </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">Source: Minju Pak. "Affair inspires an Ode to a Punk Rock 'Sex God.'" <i>New York Times</i>, Sunday February 18, 2024, p. 9 (Sunday Styles).</span> </span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-57088806355699844712024-03-06T08:00:00.009-05:002024-03-06T08:00:00.148-05:00Quotes: Iris Apfel<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"When you don't dress like everyone else, you don't have to think like everyone else." </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Iris Apfel (August 29, 1921- March 1, 2024), American entrepreneur and style icon</span></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-81042210867070033312024-03-05T08:00:00.007-05:002024-03-05T08:00:00.137-05:00Quotes: Karl Reiland<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">–– Karl Reiland (1871-1964), American clergyman </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-70395854897628247852024-03-04T08:00:00.009-05:002024-03-04T08:00:00.255-05:00Quotes: Nelson Mandela<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"As we let our light shine, we give others permission to do the same."</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), South African anti-apartheid activist, politician, South Africa's first Black president (1994-1999), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1993 </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-29818311959995176122024-03-03T08:00:00.014-05:002024-03-03T08:00:00.135-05:00Quotes: Gertraude Beese<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">"A life without dreams is like a garden without flowers." </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">Gertraude Beese </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-30344523798822027462024-03-02T08:00:00.013-05:002024-03-02T08:00:00.134-05:00Quotes: Duke Ellington<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Art is dangerous. That is one of its attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it." </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Duke Ellington (1899-1974), American Jazz pianist and composer </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book, 1999-2001, 2001.</span></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-34475373698039092602024-03-01T08:00:00.014-05:002024-03-01T08:00:00.134-05:00Quotes: Tracy Kidder<p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">Character Jonathan Souweine is a lawyer who, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">with</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"> his wife Judith, has commissioned a house to be built.</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"[Jonathan] is their organizational genius ... His principal tool is the list. If he has a great deal to do tomorrow, as he almost always does, he cannot sleep until he records his obligations in a list. He pulls lists out of pockets, drawers, briefcase. He has some ready-made lists. There's one for a camping trip with children and one for a trip without them. He's devised a kind of list that ameliorates procrastination: If he has a difficult chore of high priority and just can't bring himself to face it right away, he makes a list of this thirteen other chores of secondary significance, in the order of their relative importance. So while he puts off the big job, he still manages to attend to his second and third most important ones."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Tracy Kidder (b. 1945), American writer </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Source: Tracy Kidder. <i>House</i>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985; p.12.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"> </span></span></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-83916070524082056192024-02-29T08:00:00.021-05:002024-02-29T08:00:00.145-05:00Quotes: William Ralph Inge<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism." </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), English author, Anglican priest, and professor of divinity </span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Austin Kleon. <i>Steal Like an Artist</i>. 2012.</span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Aboveground Art Supplies 2020 Knapsack Sketchbook, 2022, p. 13.</span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-65635510489069239512024-02-28T08:00:00.005-05:002024-02-28T13:36:46.510-05:00Quotes: Luke Burgis<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"After meeting our basic needs as creatures, we enter into the human universe of desire. And knowing what to want is much harder than knowing what to need." </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Luke Burgis, American entrepreneur and author</span> </p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-14052877461087129862024-02-27T08:00:00.011-05:002024-02-27T08:00:00.143-05:00Quotes: Pericles of Athens<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Pericles of Athens (495-426 B.C.), Athenian statesman, orator and general</span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">via: Sketchbook 33, 2024, p. 128.</span></span></div></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-37481121189201787052024-02-26T08:00:00.012-05:002024-02-26T14:36:36.599-05:00Quotes: Yina Ilori<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"There is no design rule book. We all create differently; I like to make mistakes and don't seek perfection." </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Yinka Ilori (b. 1987), British-Nigerian designer </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;">Source: <i>Living Etc.</i> UK, August 2020, p. 104. </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Sketchbook 33, 2024, p. 115.</span></div></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-14325329633401407392024-02-25T08:00:00.009-05:002024-02-25T08:00:00.263-05:00Quotes: Unknown<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">"You will never leave where you are until you decide where you want to be." </span></span></p><p><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Unknown</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-4425414759889768202024-02-24T08:00:00.009-05:002024-02-24T08:00:00.137-05:00Quotes: Alonzo Newton Benn<p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success." </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Alonzo Newton Benn (1866-1956), American author and musician </span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></p>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5999755794134280907.post-2553771877823673412024-02-23T08:00:00.011-05:002024-02-23T08:00:00.131-05:00Quotes: Tom Bodett<span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." </span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;">–– Tom Bodett, (b. 1955), American author, voice actor, radio host, woodworker, and columnist </span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: helvetica; font-size: xx-small;">via: Commonplace Book 1999-2001, 2001.</span></div>Karen Thiessenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367131582438076366noreply@blogger.com0