I can do that!

So I concluded there is nothing better than to be happy and enjoy ourselves as long as we can.

~ Ecclesiastes 3:12, NLT
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I totally agree with this "Verse of the Day." I will work hard to carry out this advice. :-)

Thank you, Mother and Daddy!

"Travel is the death of prejudice."
~Samuel Clemens

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I'm pretty sure that wasn't the main motivation, but my parents felt like travel was one of the most important things we could do as a family and they instilled a love of travel in both my sister and me. We've both been to all 50 states (several times for most of them). Together we've been to six European countries and on other journeys, we've both been to others (she more than I, but I'll catch up some day). Our parents have been to even more than that and just returned from a 32-day cruise down the Asian coast. There's so much to learn when you travel, but obviously, there's so much more to gain.

Words to Live By . . . Literally

Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.

~ Ephesians 4:29, NLT

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Thank you Air1 for another reminder of what I firmly believe.

My Sentiments Exactly!

You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me! I sing for joy because of what you have done.

~ Psalm 92:4, NLT

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It's true! It's true!! God has done sooooo much for me. His love and generosity are amazing. I try to remember to be appreciative, I try to notice even the small details of his generosity, but I forget and I don't notice. I can't be grateful enough. And as far as the singing goes . . . well, I can't do enough of that, either. ;-) And what better kind of singing is there than singing for joy? Wow. Every word of this Bible verse is just for me. Praise God!!

If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.  

~African Proverb

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There are four of us up for tenure this fall at UMF. We decided to work at it together. We've had a breakfast together and several "working lunches" where we brought our stuff to the same room at the same time and just worked. Even though we are each doing our own thing, it's so nice to do it with someone. And if you have a question, you just ask and there are three more heads to figure out a good answer together. We even made a Google site where we all share what we know and what colleagues have shared with us. It's been a pleasure and a blast. Beth, one of our members, shared this quote which she saw on the wall of a store in Grapevine, Texas this fall and thought it would be a good one for our tenure group. 

Procrastination

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Spotted in the window at Mooseville--a cute trinket store in downtown Farmington. I actually spotted it on June 28 but I'm just now getting around to blogging about it.

Technology is magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law) English physicist & science fiction author (1917 - )

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I actually heard this referenced on a TED talk. I firmly believe that technology is magic. How nice that someone else said it so eloquently. :-)