Cathy Burnham Martin's Blog, page 27

I Voted!

I like the America where our citizens are recognized as the nation’s heart and soul. I like the America where our hopes, dreams, and differences make us stronger, rather than dividing us.

 

I have been deeply saddened by the America that embraces a “cancel culture” to crush differing opinions, gaslights otherwise intelligent people with loud and frequent repetition of known lies, and labels supporters of a Presidential opponent as deranged fascists, weak, deplorable, or garbage. Further, I will not be cajoled nor berated into voting for ANYONE based on race or sex. Period.

Happy Halloweeeeen!

 

We have always enjoyed getting decked out in high or low style for Halloween.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year we appeared as Frankenstein’s monster and his Bride.

 

 

 

 

 

Even Mother Nature can’t keep Halloween spirit and shenanigans down in western NC. The street was packed with gleeful goblins and pretty princesses.

 

 

 

 

We got fully festive helping hand out goodies to trick-or-treaters at KD’s Sea Shack in Tryon…

 

 

 

 

 

…and then we won the costume contest at Sully’s Place in Columbus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boooooooootiful times with friends and fun fiends.

No Way! Yes Way!

“Fear has been infectious in this country, but courage can be contagious, too! That, too, is what it means to be an American.”

— Vivek Ramaswamy (1985 – )
American entrepreneur

Tread Gently

“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
American social activist & stateswoman (First Lady: 1933-45) Ambassador to UN

Success Formula

“Train people well enough so they can leave.  Treat them well enough so they don’t want to.”  

— Richard Branson (1950 – )
English business magnate

Potential!

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
German author

Step Right Up!

“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”

— Jack Penn (1909 – 1996)
South African sculptor

Celebrate National Pumpkin Day!

 

Carve ‘em, if you got ‘em!

Look! Look! Look!

 

“If you lose hope, you’re just not looking far enough ahead.”

— Joe Tye
American author

Persist to Resist

 

“Liberty has never come from the government.  Liberty has always come from the subjects of it.  The history of liberty is a history of resistance.” 

— Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924)
28th US President