BJ - (((((HUGS)))) to you and dad - I hope he makes a full and speedy recovery. The light is shining bright! Maddie - sending light to your friend Bill. NH Suzanne - I have bought crystals from eBay with much success. I don't have any hanging, but I have them strategically placed throughout my house. I put a beautiful piece of Rose Quartz in the Relationship area and a Amethyst Cluster candle holder in the Prosperity area. I have some large Quartz crystals sitting on the ledge of my windows over my front door. I couldn't come up with a way to have the crystals hang from my ceilings and look good with my decor. Water fountains are great too, but I hate the upkeep of them and figure I am better off with no fountain, than to have slimey water in them. John - I find that when I Feng Shui I also "clear" my mind and that is a big part of making things happen. I'm glad that things are looking up. Dee - I'm assuming this is another cruise - where to this time? Are you going for a Guiness World Record? I think you may be the title holder already. I have been busy with rehearsals for our annual Variety Show - as usual this is the time that I wish I hadn't volunteered (come to think of it, I didn't). But next week it all comes together and I have fun. I better get some work done. I have had a lot of pleasant distractions this morning and now I don't want to work LOL.

the reason they were not cooking the rice was that it has been raining solid and their fire is out. But there are caves all over the place in fact they have been seen huddling in a cave at some points, I would build the dang fire in the cave and cook me some rice! And I would be out there finding food. I come from Cajun blood and Cajun country a lot of those folks down on the bayou survive on what they can catch or grow, true living off the land and water! Those idiots on survivor would die if they had to live that life. IF you do not have money and hungry mouths to feed you had best be finding something in the woods or the bayou to feed em! NO going out and robbing someone because all the rest of the neighbors are living off the land too LOL. I am seeing all those monkeys and they have a spear gun HELLO are you really hungry??? Plus there are wild chickens all over you know if there are chickens there are eggs somewhere! Yes follow the monkeys they are not starving they know where the food is! Find those bananas! One season they were frying up the coconut and the coconut milk that is really good stuff why are they not doing that? Coconuts are abundant. Coconuts and the milk are really good for you, I did see Johnathan eating coconut on the last show.

Ivo Andric Quotes Writer October 9, 1892 - March 13, 1975 Sadness is also a kind of defence. Ivo Andric Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. Ivo Andric One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them. Ivo Andric If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear. Ivo Andric What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be. Ivo Andric When I am not desperate, I am worthless. Ivo Andric Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices. Ivo Andric Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for. Ivo Andric There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. Ivo Andric Bruce Catton Quotes American - Historian October 9, 1899 - August 28, 1978 Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made. Bruce Catton Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies. Bruce Catton I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do. Bruce Catton Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. Bruce Catton To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson. Bruce Catton And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going. Bruce Catton Early youth is a baffling time. Bruce Catton In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. Bruce Catton The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. Bruce Catton Lord Hailsham Quotes British - Politician October 9, 1907 - October 12, 2001 The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable. Lord Hailsham The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Lord Hailsham In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away. Lord Hailsham I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. Lord Hailsham Donald Sinden Quotes English - Actor Born: October 9, 1923 I have a disgracefully sweet tooth. My younger brother and I, all we care about are puddings. You can keep your smoked salmon and caviar. Donald Sinden An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. Donald Sinden Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays. Donald Sinden Whatever part I'm playing, I always carry with me something that's been used by an illustrious predecessor. I'm a great believer in a touching of hands. I have daggers belonging to Henry Irving and Sarah Siddons. Donald Sinden I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors. Donald Sinden James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys. Donald Sinden I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus. Donald Sinden I remember once saying in a television interview that the only things I hadn't been in were the opera and the ballet. Two days later, I got a call from Lord Harewood, of the English National Opera, saying "Would you like to be in 'Ariadne auf Naxos?'" Donald Sinden You come across quite ordinary, nondescript people in daily life, and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage, too. Donald Sinden I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there. Donald Sinden I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character. Donald Sinden Abdullah Ibrahim Quotes South African - Musician Born: October 9, 1934 The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads. Abdullah Ibrahim When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution. Abdullah Ibrahim People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. Abdullah Ibrahim They took away time, and they gave us the clock. Abdullah Ibrahim Don McCullin Quotes British - Photographer Born: October 9, 1935 When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's meant to talk to you; it's meant to shame you. It's meant to scream out at you, and it has a message. Don McCullin I love photography. I love the imagery. I love what I do. Don McCullin I started out on photography accidentally. A policeman came to a stop at the end of my street, and a guy knifed him at the end of my street. That's how I became a photographer. I photographed the gangs that I went to school with. Don McCullin I think media has lost its way. We must recognize that the proprietors of these organizations have put on a form of censorship. Basically, they're more interested in celebrity, narcissism, rich people, good-looking people, and successful sportsmen. Don McCullin I've always thought photography is not so much of an art form but a way of communicating and passing on information. Don McCullin I've spent most of my life embracing violence in wars and revolutions. Even a famine is a form of violence. Because I photograph people in peril, people in pain, people being executed in front of me, I find it very difficult to get my head around the art narrative of photography. Don McCullin Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me. Don McCullin I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use. Don McCullin I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life. Don McCullin Many people send me letters in England saying, 'I want to be a war photographer,' and I say, go out into the community that you live in. There's wars going on out there; you don't have to go halfway around the world on an airplane where there are bombs and shells. There are social wars that are worthwhile. Don McCullin I know where I'm coming from; I know what I bring and what I take. I take more than I bring; I bring hope, but I give nothing. That's not the role I'm proud of. Don McCullin Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of. Don McCullin I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence. Don McCullin There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures. Don McCullin I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really. Don McCullin Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us. Don McCullin I have a store full of thousands and thousands of images in my brain. I've got this terrible feeling I'm like some abattoir boss: I know death; I know the cut pieces of the human body. Don McCullin I grew up as a boy with aggression. Don McCullin In my photography, I always lean towards the underprivileged because that's where I came from. When I went to the wars, I attempted to go and stand by those who were being trodden on. By that, I mean people like the Palestinians. When I go to India, I see really the poorest people, and I tend to be drawn to them. Don McCullin I've fallen in love with the classical world of imagery, and what I'd like to do now over the last bit of my life is to photograph some nudes. Don McCullin America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider. Don McCullin I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd. Don McCullin I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope. Don McCullin Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur. Don McCullin I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I've been conscious of the world, I've either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone. Don McCullin Brian Blessed Quotes English - Actor Born: October 9, 1936 My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure. Brian Blessed You can't call it an adventure unless it's tinged with danger. The greatest danger in life, though, is not taking the adventure at all. To have the objective of a life of ease is death. I think we've all got to go after our own Everest. Brian Blessed I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe. Brian Blessed I have marvelous dreams! I meet Buddha, I meet Jesus, I meet Mohammed. I constantly dream of space, stars and planets: we are the children of stardust. Brian Blessed My dream is to own a Hockney - I'm a Yorkshireman, and his vibrant colours are a good example of how the north-country people are vibrant and colourful. Brian Blessed When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it. Brian Blessed I'm a fully trained cosmonaut and have completed 800 hours training, which has made me the No. 1 civilian reserve ready to visit the International Space Station. I am determined to go up, and I want to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond! Brian Blessed People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it's all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in 'Flash Gordon,' I put as much energy into it as I would with 'King Lear' - it's all part of the same thing. Brian Blessed Life is a re-discovery. Brian Blessed My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never knew a day's good health - I wish I could have given him some of my good health. But he was always so cheerful and sweet. Brian Blessed I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Brian Blessed There will be no funeral! Before I get too old and ill, I'll go to South America and live among the Pemon people and meditate. When the time is right, they can throw my body into the volcano. Brian Blessed I fed my yak on my spare Cadbury chocolate 21,0000ft up Everest. It was a blonde, very sweet female yak. I made it my pet after that. Brian Blessed My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives. Brian Blessed My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school. Brian Blessed The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes. Brian Blessed I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration! Brian Blessed I've become quite a serious explorer: I've been to Everest three times; I'm the oldest man to reach the North Pole; and I've just been to the lost world of Venezuela. Brian Blessed When I was 11, I played the part of Rumpelstiltskin, and my teacher told me I would make a great actor. Brian Blessed I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way. Brian Blessed John Pilger Quotes Australian - Journalist Born: October 9, 1939 Official truths are often powerful illusions. John Pilger Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. John Pilger I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog. John Pilger The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance. John Pilger Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. John Pilger We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government. John Pilger It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people. John Pilger I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language. John Pilger Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. John Pilger Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed. John Pilger

Emily Dickinson Quotes American - Poet December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886 Saying nothing... sometimes says the most. Emily Dickinson Morning without you is a dwindled dawn. Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. Emily Dickinson My friends are my estate. Emily Dickinson I dwell in possibility. Emily Dickinson Where thou art, that is home. Emily Dickinson Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. Emily Dickinson Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. Emily Dickinson That it will never come again is what makes life sweet. Emily Dickinson Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes. Emily Dickinson Forever is composed of nows. Emily Dickinson Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. Emily Dickinson Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. Emily Dickinson They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. Emily Dickinson I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don't doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision. Emily Dickinson A wounded deer leaps the highest. Emily Dickinson I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson The brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickinson A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought. Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. Emily Dickinson How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. Emily Dickinson Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell. Emily Dickinson Fortune befriends the bold. Emily Dickinson Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. Emily Dickinson I'm nobody, who are you? Emily Dickinson Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickinson Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only! Emily Dickinson We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came. Emily Dickinson Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. Emily Dickinson People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. Emily Dickinson To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm. Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality. Emily Dickinson To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. Emily Dickinson If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better. Emily Dickinson God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally. Emily Dickinson There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. Emily Dickinson He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust. Emily Dickinson I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled. Emily Dickinson Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed. Emily Dickinson Tell the truth, but tell it slant. Emily Dickinson Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. Emily Dickinson I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind. Emily Dickinson I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. Emily Dickinson In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and my eyes, like the sherry in the glass, that the guest leaves. Emily Dickinson They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Emily Dickinson Carolyn Kizer Quotes American - Poet December 10, 1925 - October 9, 2014 I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist named Harry Hawthorne. Carolyn Kizer Environmental concerns and feminism are locked together. Generally, women have closer connections to the organic nature of our lives. Carolyn Kizer I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur Waley's translations and Whitman and Robinson Jeffers, who have been lifelong influences on me. My father read Keats to me, and then he read more Keats while I was lying on the sofa struggling with asthma. Carolyn Kizer No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change. Carolyn Kizer As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south. Carolyn Kizer I tell people I never got to hear Dylan Thomas read because my husband wouldn't let me, because he thought it would be a sort of bad influence. People say, 'And you didn't go?' They're so surprised because the me they know would have gone. And I say I was very much a 'yes, dear' wife. Carolyn Kizer I wrote poetry off and on in high school, when I could manage to get out of gym classes and sports - using my allergies as an excuse - and climb the hill behind school till I found a nice place to settle down with a notebook and look at Spokane spread out below. Carolyn Kizer I've been enormously fortunate. People say, 'How do you feel about your reputation?' My real belief is that I have exactly the reputation I deserve... on the whole, I feel comfortable with myself. Carolyn Kizer I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back. Carolyn Kizer I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. Carolyn Kizer I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano. Carolyn Kizer