Cheryl Snell's Blog, page 18

How About Those Resolutions?

Eleven days into it, how are you doing with yours?

* "New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain

* "But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits." - Andre Gide

* "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

*"Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping – rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?" – John Dos Passos

* "For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning." – T.S. Eliot

* "Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account." - Oscar Wilde

* "Time has no divisions to mark its passage. There is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols." – Thomas Mann

* "I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me." – Anaïs Nin

Poulenc - Improvisation 7

Birthday boy

Optimism

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Woody Guthrie's Resolutions

[image error] What are yours? I'm recycling last year's.

Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsys Auld Lang Syne 31/12/69 2nd show

Michelangeli plays Scarlatti - Sonata in C major

Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

Christmas Waltz - Chet Baker & Wolfgang Lackerschmid

Ophelia's Letter to Santa

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Dear Santa:

How does my lord? I am fine. I believe 'tis possible you did not receive my wish list last year, or that it fell into unsavory hands and was rudely tampered with before reaching you, as all you brought me was a chastity belt and some granny underpants. I pray that this one flies to you untainted since this year hath really sucked. I wish for the following:

— He's Just Not That Into You (book and DVD)

— "All About Me" Lock and Key Diary

— National Geographic Flower and Leaf Pressing Kit

— Coastal Deluxe Automatic Inflatable Life Vest

Fingers crossed,
Ophelia

...from http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/letters-to-santa-written-by-shakespeare-characters#.TvD5GOAurzM.twitter

painting by Janet Snell

MISSING PERSON

My sister is missing. She's 57, height 5'2", blonde,150 lbs, last seen Tuesday morning driving a red 1999 Toyota Corolla in Akron Ohio. She's unwell and in need of medical attention. If you have any information that could help us, please message me.