I didn't post much in the last three months...

New job, lots of reading, some real weariness in the evenings and weekends (age, bad economy, doldrums?). My goal is to post at least 10 times this month. Caveat: no empty, nothingness posts in order to meet goal.

I'm trying hard to stay away from politics. I'm focused on being cautiously optimistic!

Here's my post today, some random quotations (no theme) that struck me as wise or interesting!

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. David E. Price

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it. Barbara Ehrenreich

You don't take a photograph, you make it.Ansel Adams

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. Gore Vidal

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. Abdul Kalam

Good humor, good quote

A great quote for today from a commenter on Debby's blog. I had never read it before, but I subscribe:

"Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. "

-Grenville Kleiser

Go ahead, you want to. Tell me a joke in your comments.

Books of the week....

Books, books, books....I've returned to an old favorite author or two this week....

Catching up with Margaret Maron's southern judge in "Hard Row"...

Revisiting my love affair with Minnesota author Leif Erickson in his newest.. "So Brave, Young and Handsome"

Going to Baltimore with Laura Lippman for her first two mysteries... "Baltimore Blues" and "Charm City".

And staying current with Scott McClellan's "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception"....even if I do think Scott was pretty much of a wussy. I was tired of reading all the support/attacks on a book that most supporters and attackers have not even read.

I'm also going to try to attempt to track my films each week, and add a quote and a poem I enjoy. Since we already have the marvelous "Imperfection"; I saw two films this week; the DVD version of "I Am Legend"; if you liked it and were a little shattered by it, as I was, you will have a difficult time dealing with the upcoming version of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road". I also caught a second movie on DVD (note to self....go to the theater) that I've enjoyed many times - Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V". A little heavy for a hot summer weekend while others were catching "Kung Fu Panda", I admit...but I loved it!

In my car stereo this week is the inimitable Jack Johnson's "Sleep Through the Static".

And my quote:

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." ~~~ William James