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There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees.
For the maples want more sunlight, and the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples (and they're quite convinced they're right),

 they say the oaks are just too lofty and they grab up all the light.

But the oaks can't help their feelings if they like the way they're made

and they wonder why the maples can't be happy in their shade.

 

 

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From Audrey...and me

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Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else.
… Judy Garland

 

 

 

 

 

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To one of my favorite heroes

 

Thank you for giving us space -
and rest in peace, our daring gallant man

"I put up my thumb and shut one eye,
and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. 
I didn't feel like a giant. 
I felt very, very small."  

                  - Neil Armstrong

 

 

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Shutting it down.

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Quiet is peace. Tranquility.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
Silence is pushing the off button.

Shutting it down. All of it.

… Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

 

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mmm...

fall is coming

...apples...caramel sauce

recipe here

http://craftingfunforkids.typepad.com/hatchings/2010/10/halloween-first-we-do-the-caramel.html