3/31/08

http://www.dothetest.co.uk/

3/26/08

Here’s some simple advice: Always be yourself. Never take yourself too seriously. And beware of advice from experts, pigs, and members of Parliament. ~ Kermit the Frog, It’s Not Easy Being Green

3/21/08

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~ Unknown

3/20/08

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. ~ Charles Eames

3/14/08

Nulla dies sine linea. ~ Plinius

My guiding philosophical question is: Why does it have to be like that? ~ Brendan Dawes, Analog In, Digital Out

3/12/08 Happy Birthday Katie!!!

I would like to extend a very special birthday greeting to the young woman who 25 years ago made me what I am today….her mother.

Please join me in toasting (lift those Starbuck’s cups and Jamba Juice glasses!) the very best daughter I ever could have imagined – the one, the only, the incomparable Katie B! Happy happy 25th sweetie!!!

3/11

A very special surgery takes place in Seattle today, involving two Tacoma women....or perhaps I should say one Tacoma woman and her angel....(kleenex recommended)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/us/04barista.html

3/6/08

If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good.
~ Dr. Seuss

3/5/08

Sometimes we're "mad at" someone whom we should merely be "sad at." ~ Karen Salmanson

3/4/08

I have decided to remove worry and fear from my things to do list today and, in their empty places, add explore and create. ~ Runa Clarke

3/3/08

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college — that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?” ~ Howard Ikemoto

3/2/08 Happy Birthday Byron!

The Ponderings staff (me) would like to extend my heartiest best wishes to my friend Byron on his 40th birthday (applause, applause)!

Although many of you do not know Byron directly, you do indirectly, as Byron is, in effect, the father of Ponderings, having coined the phrase. Many years ago, during our Wednesday philosophical group, Byron would lie down on the floor in my apartment and stare up at the ceiling. When asked what he was doing, he said (historical drum roll here) that he was pondering.

One year as a birthday gift, our friend Joe (another Wednesday regular) made Byron a video. It consisted of (in addition to Joe’s hilarious previews) of an hour of video of – you guessed it – my apartment ceiling. I must admit it was quite relaxing. I think Byron was onto something with his pondering – perhaps we would all benefit from a little lying on the floor and gazing at the ceiling….

Please join me in congratulating Byron on his 40th by leaving your best wishes on the blog. You don’t have to know him personally – for you know him each day when the ponderings arrive in your inbox. ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BYRON!!!!