Thank you this week of quotes, they were inspiring and challenging and so from your heart to mine.

I liked all your quotes too. Just a question, did you by any chance watch the PBS Nova shows "Hunting the Edge of Space"? Several of your quotes fit right in.
Thanks a lot.

Anne, unfortunately, I can't get Nova anymore.
I truly miss it----in more ways than one--snort!

I think I got carried away with 'Saving the Earth' stuff this week---just got on a roll.
My family's used to it, but it can be taxing on the unwary.
Mea Culpa.

('Mea Culpa, for my most grievious sin'.....Here I go back in time---Novenas to Our Blessed Mother---I'm not Catholic, but my Irish DMIL was. I was expecting my first child and she said this would be good for strengthening my back muscles for delivery, so we'd scrub the random-width wooden floors of her farmhouse on hands and knees as she taught me Novenas and the Apostles Creed and of course, The Rosary.
Although she could be an achoholic demon at times,
SHE brought out the best mother in me.
She gave me so much courage and a feeling of worthiness, in spite of our differnt walks in life.
I will be eternally grateful to that woman.)

Thank you so much for this week's beautiful quotes. You opened my horizons to some new names that I was not familar with. :)

They sung to me too, KJ. In troubled times, caring for our earth sometimes gets lost in the shuffle. It should always be on our minds, and we should always be working toward that end. Enjoyed your week immensely. Hope you take a week again soon.

All the quotes this week stirred some emotions,KJ. Thank you for that. Boy can Annie Dillard write.

Yes, she can, Marda---I've always been a little in love with her---like a schoolgirl who wanted to be her---silly, I know.

I've read 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek' at LEAST fifteen times over the years---the copy I have once belonged to our public library. It's a first edition.
About thirty-some years ago, I went to a used book store in Charlottsville, bought another first edition, showed it to the head librarian at our library and talked her into swapping books with me. I told her it was me who'd made their copy look so used-up, it was me who'd practically worn out the binding and it was me who'd also made it look so loved.
She looked at me and said, "Kathy, you're a nut case, but I'm a little that way myself, sometimes. Here; this edition is now yours."
She stamped 'W-- Library Discard' on the title page and she handed over my treasure, my love, and I handed her the well-kept, sterile-looking copy I'd bought in Charlottesville.....how did I ever get to be so lucky?! Now THAT'S a love story!!!! (happy, contented sigh.)

Read The Maytrees. It's the story of a couple in New England and all the twists and turns of their life and is so beautifully written as only Dillard can do. Pidge wrote a wonderful review of it which appeared in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer several years ago when it first came out.

I missed getting to the GP, yesterday, but KJ, I, too, wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed your week of quotes. Why it is so hard for most of us to realize how precious our Earth is, and also, how small it really is. The volcano eruptions in Iceland this past week certainly underscore the fact that we're all in this, together, whether we like it or not!

Again, thanks for a great week of quotes.

KJ, Thanks for the great quotes. Sorry I haven't been around to comment on them daily. Saw a show about Poncho Barnes The other night and it reminded me of your spirit.

Pancho's Happy Bottom Riding Club. Learnt about that in Yeager's Biography. Would have like to have met the woman.

Thanks,guys---I really appreciate the comments---I really was embarrassed a couple days when I looked back and saw over-kill staring back at me.
Oh, well; just bear with me, please....maybe my swings will become more controlled with practice-----and then, maybe NOT!
BWWWAHHHHA!

Oh, yeah---if you're out walking and you see litter---pick it up! TRUST me, no one ELSE is going to!
One of my daughters said she'd read somewhere it's 2 or 3%
of the local population that cause the litter problem for everyone else in a community.