The superior man seeks what is right; the inferior one, what is profitable. Confucius

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik H. Erikson

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. Bill Watterson

The San Juan School Board has invited Walt Wegener to serve as Interim Superintendent for this next school year – here’s a little bit about Walt, from the bio the school district supplied us: Walt Wegener, current Student Services Director of the Toppenish School District in Central Washington, is a Seattle area native, raised on  Continue Reading

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan

from the Associated Press: BELLEVUE, Wash. – Fire officials in Washington state said a sunny day and a dog’s glass water bowl combined to cause a blaze that charred the back of a home. Bellevue Fire Department Lt. Eric Keenan said investigators determined the glass bowl of water focused sunlight enough to act like a  Continue Reading

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE!  Continue Reading

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. Steven Wright

Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky

An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics and related drugs produced in this country are used for non-therapeutic purposes such as accelerating animal growth and compensating for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions on ‘factory farms.’ This translates to … almost eight times the amount given to humans to treat disease. Union of Concerned Scientists

Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. Cree Indian Prophecy

Everybody needs something cheerful to wake up to….click here & check out this little slideshow & see what you think. (Click here.) -oo-

Jeff Tkac wrote in with a request for information – this is fascinating: I just visited the island and brought my 83-year-old mother, who had last been there in 1933. We loved the place, again. I am wondering if anyone has  any photos, records, etc. about the Edgar and Jerusha Hill family, the Ensign and  Continue Reading

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mohandas Gandhi

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. Lewis B. Smedes