I’m rethinking this quote: “Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There is nothing sublime about it.

Sublime:

Elevated or lofty in thought, language, etc.: Paradise Lost is sublime poetry. Impressing the mind with a sense of grandeur or power; inspiring awe, veneration, etc.: Switzerland has sublime […]

A tiny little structure deep in my brain that I never heard of until a tumor was discovered on mine. What is a Pineal gland? The answer to that has changed over the years. Hopefully we are closer to the correct function of that gland than they were in the past. There’s some ancient […]

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”~Eleanor Roosevelt

This quote has stuck in my head ever since I heard it years and years ago. I love it and it’s so true. It also points out to me my own shortcomings. I guess I’d fall under the average category mostly, although […]

I just had my yearly one and am supposed to see the neurosurgeon so he can look at it but I came home in between because it was going to be an hour and a half wait (that and I desperately needed my allergy meds). So not having thought of it earlier I just called […]

I hear the ominous scratching coming from the dining room, where my beautiful chairs live. I hear the crackling of the aluminum foil that is supposed to be scaring the critters away from the plants. I find plants vomited up on my floor, why do that over and over if it makes you sick?

The […]

I almost stepped on this lil guy yesterday. That would have been really really gross. Being that my garden is about finished and the fact that I don’t have the heart to kill him, I just moved him off to where I’m putting the tomatoes already eaten by slugs. I really couldn’t kill any […]