no. 927

 

no. 926

 

no. 925

 “If you want Peace, work for Justice.” 

Pope Saint Paul VI, 1 January 1972

no. 924

 

no. 923

 

Have I posted this before? Don’t care. 

no. 922

 

no. 921

 

no. 920

 "To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness." 

John Muir

no. 919

 “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” 

John Muir, who died on this day in 1914

no. 918

“I don’t rightly know what comes after this life. Heaven, hell, reincarnation, or maybe nothing…but I think we spend too much time wondering what our reward will be in the next life while we let the days of this life slip like so much water through our hands.”

Leland Dirks

no. 917

 “I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.”

Norman Thomas, who died on this day in 1968

no. 916

 “There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”

 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

no. 915

 

no. 914

 “We have enough money in this world to feed every man, woman, and child. But we'll never have enough money on this planet to satiate the insatiable appetite of billionaires.”

Unknown from social media. 

no. 913

 “Chili is one of those things like gumbo where there’s an infinite number of ways to make it and almost all of them are great. Unfortunately, the great debate over chili remains: beans or no beans? For that of course, we can thank Texas, which is usually at the heart of bad food opinions. In this case, it’s the Lonestar position that beans do not belong in chili, and we can only assume that it is because of this stance that the state has been cursed with Greg Abbott.”

Jason Herbert’s article on chili (w/ recipe), “Texas Can’t Save You But I Can”

no. 912

 

no. 911

“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that.”

John Lennon 

no. 910

 

no. 909

 "Most people I've met who weren't kind to animals weren't kind to people, either. Kindness is kindness. Simple as that."

~Ricky Gervais

no. 908

 "Our greatest strength is the power of our example, not just the example of our power." 

President Joe Biden (b. 20 Nov 1942)