I got this fascinating one from...

Christiane Amanpour's talk with Historian Simon Schama:

......civil war of culture which is so ennervating......

Never thought about the clashes of the various cultures as a civil war....but it can be just as deadly...

This I got from Oprah's newsletter...

The 'Thought for Today Newsletter'

It's a wonderful word and extremely meaningful...

Emotional pirate

Someone who leaves you feeling emotionally looted...

On Dignity...

and who better to talk about Dignity than Maya Angelou...

Dignity—the word itself—has come to mean different things to different people, as many words do. It doesn't just mean always being stiff and composed. It means a belief in oneself, that one is worthy of the best. Dignity means that what I have to say is important, and I will say it when it's important for me to say it. Dignity really means that I deserve the best treatment I can receive. And that I have the responsibility to give the best treatment I can to other people.

From Kurt Vonnegut...

Homes fall apart, schools can fall apart, usually for childish reasons, and what have you got?

A space wanderer named___

And so, in effect, we are all space wanderers.....

What a wonderful concept!!! We are all space wanderers...

From a book...

I read, and re-read, and re-re-read...

The Bridges of Madison County

The use of imagery is fantastic in this book...and so lyrical...

Here's one:

.......she could smell rivers and woodsmoke, could hear steaming trains chuffing out of winter stations in ling-ago nighttimes, could see travellers in black robes moving steadily along frozen rivers and through summer meadows, beating their way toward the end of things.

And about Robert Kincaid, Francesca says, 'I've always thought of him as a leopardlike creature who rode in on the tail of a comet.'