Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple, elemental things, the sun&wind&rain, moonlight&starlight, sunrise&mist&mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn&the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees.~ETeale

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." ~ Winston Churchill (today's Christmas card painting)

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane." ~ Robert Frost

"The leaf of every tree brings a message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing." ~ Rumi

"Plan B. You've always got to have a Plan B." ~ Sylvester Stallone

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” —Jim Davis

“The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.” ― Nietzsche

The great bare tree looked down and smiled, "Good-night, dear little leaves," he said. And from below each sleepy child Replied, "Good-night," and murmured, "It is so nice to go to bed!" -Susan Coolidge

They took dead men's souls And pinned them on their breasts for ornament; Their cuff-links and tiaras Were gems dug from a grave; They were ghouls battening on exhumed thoughts; And I took a green liqueur from a servant So that he might come near me And give me the comfort of a living thing.-ALowell

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." ~ B. F. Skinner

A light heart lives long. -William Shakespeare

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. -Louis Auchincloss

Through town and village, too, I stray; At every house I call and say, 'O, can you tell me where to find The little girl that witched my mind?' -Johann Peter Hebel

Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. ― Ernest Dowson

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.― Ray Bradbury

"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view." ~ George Eliot

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

THE cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes. -WB Yeats

"There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand." ~ Joyce Jillson

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful. Akif Pirincci

"To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light." ~ Walter Scott

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden- in all the places. -Frances Hodgson Burnett

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good. -Happy birthday, Alphonsus Liguori

I met a Puppy as I went walking; We got talking, Puppy and I. "Where are you going this nice fine day?" (I said to the Puppy as he went by). "Up to the hills to roll and play." "I'll come with you, Puppy," said I. -A A Milne

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons." ~ Jim Bishop

Oh how we love pumpkin season. You did know this gourd-ish squash has its own season, right? Winter, Spring, Summer, Pumpkin.... We anxiously anticipate it every year. ~Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer

The Dog was wild& the Horse was wild&the Cow was wild& the Sheep was wild& the Pig was wild—as wild as wild could be—and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.-Kipling

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves. ~Gerald Hausman

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run... -Keats

"Come, little leaves," said the wind one day. "Come o'er the meadows with me, and play' Put on your dress of red and gold,— Summer is gone, and the days grow cold." -George Cooper

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference." ~ Charlotte Gray

"How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night." - Thomas Gunn

Dogs and angels are not very far apart. -Charles Bukowski

"Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure." ~ Thomas Wolfe (except I have no saddness for the passing of 100* weather)

"Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil." ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

"It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be." ~ John Boyne

"You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six." ~ Yogi Berra

Sorrow and scarlet leaf, Sad thoughts and sunny weather. Ah me, this glory and this grief Agree not well together! - Thomas Parsons

"Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!" ~ Humbert Wolfe

Oh, what a joy to clamber there, Oh, what a place for play, With the sweet, the dim, the dusty air, The happy hills of hay! -R L Stevenson

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.” – Ben Franklin

"I got up early because I wanted to." - Nobody ~ Jim Gaffigan (I got up early because the cat wanted to...)

"Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson." ~ Happy birthday, T. S. Eliot

Where are you going, Mrs Cat All by your lonesome lone? Hunting a mouse or maybe a rat Where the ditches are overgrown I have my kittens who must be fed I can’t have them skin and bone And Mrs Cat shook her brindled head And went off by her lonesome lone -Elizabeth Coatsworth

"Do not lose your enthusiasm. In its Greek etymology, the word enthusiasm means, "God in us."" ~ Ken Burns

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Morning exercise-- such a bad idea 🙂.

You may call, you may call But littleblackcats won't hear you. The littleblackcats are maddened By the bright green light of the moon; They are whirling&running&hiding They are wild who were once so confiding, They are crazed when the moon is riding You will not catch the kittens soon. =ECoatsworth

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar