Daily Jots

Thought of the Day:
“I read today that Sylvia Plath wrote most of her highly acclaimed and respected work in the middle of the night after her three children and husband had gone to bed and were sound asleep. At the age of 30, she took a bunch of sleeping pills and stuck her head in a gas oven. Her suicide was successful. I can’t help but think the two are connected.”
Adelle Tilton
Thinking Outside of the Box:
It’s my blog so I can do my own quote! Talk about ownership issues!! Anyway, I read about this …read more

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Thought of the Day:
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to
look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy;
you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing
in.”
Katherine Mansfield
Thinking Outside of the Box:
Regret is a strange thing. You hear it in the movies. “Did you regret last night?” Really, what does that mean? Do you wish you hadn’t done, said, or been where you where? Did it change the course of human and cosmic destiny to the point that it actually demands your time to consider it further?
We are the sum …read more

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Thought of the Day:
“With love and patience, nothing is impossible.”
Daisaku Ikeda
Thinking Outside of the Box:
I have never understood the meaning of the word, “can’t.” It is a foreign word to me. It doesn’t wash when my kids use it as an excuse, it doesn’t work when someone fixing something says it, and I don’t like to hear it … well, anywhere, now that I think about it.
I have always believed that there is a way to do anything that you are determined to do. It may take some jury-rigging, it may take some serious out-of-the-box thinking, and …read more

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Thought of the Day:
“Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that’s why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A ‘bad night’ is not always a bad thing.”
Brian W. Aldiss
Thinking Outside of the Box:
Today is Festival of Sleep day. I believe, that the way to honor this day, is to take a nap! And if not a nap (or even if you do catch 40 winks), going to bed early is …read more

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Thought of the Day:
A Prayer for 2006
“O Father, may it never be said of us that
Having come to an open door, we closed it;
Having come to a lighted candle, we quenched it;
Having heard the voice of a neighbor begging bread,
We made denial, speaking of our own case.”
Jean McKenzie
Thinking Outside of the Box:
I had a thought tonight, just after midnight. I had a pretty tough year last year, and I wasnt at all sad to see the departure of 2005. That naturally led to the next thought: What can I (we) do to make 2006 a better year?
It …read more

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