On Marriage

"We are both more committed all the time," he says. "And since we've had kids, even more so. We have gone through bad things together. We have brought life into the world. There is so much more important stuff than whether I look at another woman or we argue once in a while or whether she thinks I go hunting too often. We are committed to married life."
Mark Kayser

"...I'm reminded of just how big marriage is. The truth is, I like that it's big, I like that it's bigger than me. It's given my life a heft it never had with just me in it. I still watch kung-fu movies dubbed in Spanish. I still look, practically by accident, at pretty women. I still spend too much time Net-surfing on the weekends, when she would like us to be doing something together. But these are just satellites of annoyance stuck in orbit around the mass -- not mess -- that is our marriage. For the record, it's a gravity I have no intention of escaping."
Brian Alexander

Mark Kayser and Brian Alexander in an article posted here:
http://lifestyle.msn.com/Relationships/CouplesandMarriage/ArticleIV2.aspx?cp-documentid=43065>1=7116

"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished." Tommy Smothers

Contentment

Photo taken by Marilyn W. Lathrop
White Sands National Park, July 20, 2005

Contentment comes not to those whose means are great, but to those whose needs are few.

Anonymous

Wikipedia photo

 "I am perfectly happy as long as I don't ask myself if I am happy..."
Karl Lagerfeld

Drugs

"One cannot discuss a good or a bad drug--only a good or a bad drug for a specific person and purpose."
Maia Szalavitz

"...psychedelic drugs cause panic and

temporary insanity in people who

have not taken them."
Timothy Leary

Heaven

"...a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning

Success

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation
with the bricks others have thrown at him"
David Brinkley

"There has never yet been a man in our history

who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."

Theodore Roosevelt

Photo taken by Aaron M. Turkle, in July just before 9/11

"To know the value of time, we must seize and enjoy every moment of it."
Chesterfield

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

James Madison

"It's good to think big"
Martha Stewart

View from Capulin Mountain
Photo taken by Marilyn W. Lathrop

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Failure

"Ever tried?

Ever failed?

No matter.

Try again.

Fail again.

Fail better."
Samuel Beckett

Thunderhead over Capitan Mountain

Photo by Marilyn W. Lathrop

Real Life

"Life for many adolescents has been saturated with pleasures that the banality of the workplace cannot match."
Mel Levine, Ready or Not Here Life Comes