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Shelly > December 2, 2009 Wall Talk " Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein -- German-born US physicist (1879 - 1955)
Shelly > December 1, 2009 Dignity Brannigan has been in the news from home lately. He's the Ninja-cat that raided our Thanksgiving appetizer platter and got into the leftovers on Thursday, and he's the daredevil who ate a poinsettia on Monday. None the worse for wear, he's thrilled with the new arrangement of our furniture. Now HIS chair is in a big window. By the way, we've increased the frequency of his canned-food rations. He's 11 years old. He deserves it. Happy Cat! "Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity." -- John Brown
Shelly > November 30, 2009 One From the Archives Doing a little bit of computer cleanup, I came across this shot from 2005. I still like it.
Shelly > November 29, 2009 What Color is Love? “It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.” -- Donald Miller
Shelly > November 26, 2009 Thanksgiving - Abundance "Abundance is, in large part, an attitude." -- Sue Patton Thoele
Shelly > November 24, 2009 Awww Shucks One of my former co-workers' mother makes the absolute best tamales around, but she only does it during the holiday season. Every year I place my order for 12 dozen and wonder if I should increase it. She cooks them up fresh, and then I meet her husband in a parking lot somewhere between our two homes. He gives me three plastic grocery sacks with foil wrapped tamales, and I hand him a check. I always wonder if we look like a drug drop, and one day anticipate being stopped by the police. When that happens, I'll just laugh and offer them a tamale. We always eat one fresh batch right away and freeze the rest until Christmas Eve. Anything we don't eat at Christmas is a yummy and simple dinner at a later date. Throughout Texas the traditional Christmas Eve dinner for many families is Tamales -- and I seriously believe that my family was one of the first white families to embrace the tradition. It was probably around 1928 or 1929 when all the kinfolks started showing up at my grandparents' front door in Austin to celebrate Christmas Eve. I believe my great grandfather had died and my great grandmother had moved in with the kids. The elder Porsch's had always hosted the whole family on Christmas Eve, and no one had talked about where they would gather that year. They all just assumed. My grandmother had not prepared for a crowd, so she sent my grandfather out to get anything that they could serve quickly -- and he found a tamale vendor. They rolled out newspapers on the table, and thus began a tradition that we continue to this day. I'm really glad others have caught on to our little secret. By the way -- I'll vouch for Ms Vicki and her tamales any day. (and yes Eddie and Carla -- Lucy is safe and healthy)
Shelly > November 23, 2009 "Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman." -- Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845 (1810 - 1850)
Shelly > November 22, 2009 Not Your Grandfather's Closet "Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke." -- Lynda Barry
Shelly > November 21, 2009 Art Crawl Today was one of the first free Saturdays we've had in a long time, so we spent the afternoon at Houston's annual Art Crawl. Saw lots of wonderful art and some that was questionable. Best of all, we met quite a few fun and interesting artists. This was a palette on the table in one of the studios. Art in and of itself, I thought . . . but then YOU might question my taste too. And that's alright. "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887 -- US abolitionist & clergyman (1813 - 1887)
December 2, 2009

Wall Talk

" Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein -- German-born US physicist (1879 - 1955)
> December 2, 2009 Wall Talk " Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." -- Albert Einstein -- German-born US physicist (1879 - 1955)
December 2, 2009

Wall Talk

" Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
-- Albert Einstein -- German-born US physicist (1879 - 1955)
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