To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

My daddy and my sister and of course a precious animal! What wonderful parenting we enjoyed. Love you, Daddy and Shirley…and your canine friend! Thanks for teaching us to appreciate what is beautiful and essential in life…

“The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.” – Robert Frost

“If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow-men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and friend.” – Robert Ingersoll

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost