Ah, Wanderlust!

  "It is said that not all who wander are lost, which has always struck me as not getting the most out of wandering."

 "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but what you invarably find is that the long and winding road has the better soundtrack."

"There is no force on earth more relentless than a river seeking the sea, and yet you will notice that it always takes the scenic route."

"It is sad to reach the end of your journey and find that you never left the interstate." 

~~ from A Few For The Road

A Holiday Cocktail Party Is Where...

...every year you have the same conversation with the same couple about who you both still are. 

...some stranger learns more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

...the host and hostess attempt to bring compatible people together by separating married couples.

...there is a rotation that brings married couples back together again every twenty minutes.

...you are always sorry you wrote anything on a napkin.

~~ from The Second Collection

Life Thoughts

"Will you spend your life pushing a boulder uphill so that, once uphill, you will have a boulder to sit on while regretting your life?" 

"Do things while you can and while they matter to you, because neither is a permanent state of affairs."

"Life is like sailing -- you can use any wind to go in any direction."

"Life is a collection of moments you might have appreciated more if you had only known they were moments."

~~ from Short Thoughts For The Long Haul

Thanksgiving Thought

 "So maybe there's no Santa Claus, and perhaps no Easter Bunny, but that only makes Thanksgiving more special, because there really is a Grandmother." 

Just Sayin'

"Better that love sometimes breaks your heart than never identifies itself at all."

The Real Goal

Every day spent happily striving toward some elusive goal is to achieve the real goal, which is to spend our days happily.

 

Family and Friends

 "One of the harder things to do when you have committed to each other far beyond friendship is to occasionally just be friends."

"The only thing that ever really impresses your relatives is your ability to fool other people."

"There is a tendency in family life to become whomever you must become in order to avoid any further discussion of the subject."

"What every child needs is the security of a loving family and an alternative source of information."

"One difference between friends and relatives is that a relative presumes you're innocent because you didn't mean it; a friend presumes you're innocent because you didn't do it."