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I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.  ~George Washington

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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.  ~Thomas Jefferson

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It’s a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.  ~Andrew Jackson

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Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.  ~Abraham Lincoln

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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.  ~Harry S. Truman

Here we are on Sunday, February 14, 2010 and it is Valentines Day so it’s not a great idea to spend all day at the computer unless the one you love can only be reached by computer.

Then it’s alright I suppose.   My girl is downstairs listening to the DVD of  Stevie Ray Vaughn I gave her this morning so I can slip away for awhile and think about this day in the relative quiet of the Citadel of Solitude.   I can read what other people more perceptive than I have said about love on this day and then reflect upon it.

I love you like crazy, baby
‘Cuz I’d go crazy without you.
~Pixie Foudre

This is so true.  And it doesn’t even go far enough because lots of folks go crazy even WITH someone special in their lives.  And who is Pixie Foudre in any case?

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.  ~Albert Einstein

I wonder why Albert took time away from science to say something like this?  It seems perfectly obvious.  What is gravity anyway?  It’s a force apparently that pulls things down towards the ground.    I’m just drawing a blank with this one and I hope someone can help with it.  Because it leaves my mind EMPTY.

Albert was pretty crafty.  Maybe that’s what he was trying to do.  Because I sometimes feel like this when I think about love and especially about my own love life.

Not recently but in the past.   The mind really is not important when it comes to love.  It is better, perhaps, if it remains empty or thinking about food or sports.

The mind is like a refrigerator and it is not responsible for people falling in love but it allows them to live happily together if it is working well. ~  David.

Albert must have been unhappy to hear people talking about falling in love because hearing the word falling immediately caused him to think about gravity and science.  I wonder if he had time, really, to think about love?  I wonder what he thought about when he kissed someone?

A vacuum  in space?

Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun.  ~Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon

Now this guy is obviously more down to earth and clearly having an  enjoyable  time with love.   It might actually  be worthwhile to establish a braille-like language for lovers.  Because then you would have to teach it in school.

And then more students would take the time to go to school and really study.

And then they would all drop out and begin their real educations at an earlier age.  Also there would not be so many science majors confusing us with their love analogies to physics.

What a happy and holy fashion it is that those who love one another should rest on the same pillow.  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Oh!  Slow down Nathaniel!  You’re going too fast for us buddy!!

I’m sure that some of the folks reading this in Nathaniel’s time probably thought s0  too.   Because back then in the amazingly puritanical past of America it must have seemed a bit X-rated to actually write about people sharing the same pillow.  I can remember, in fact,  much more recently  when a movie was not allowed to show a man and a woman together in bed.   Didn’t the Beaver Cleaver family all have separate bedrooms?  How was Beaver conceived?   Didn’t science provide means for artificial insemination back then?  Wasn’t the Pony Express involved?

Wasn’t Albert Einstein in charge of the program?

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

This is so true and it’s difficult for young lovers to understand in the first couple of hours of their relationships.   But then things like work, school, family, traffic, bills, old boyfriends, loud noises, The Tonight Show,  skin rashes, hunger and computer games tend to intrude upon their mutual eye exercises.    And then they definitely understand that it’s not just looking at each other.

But how do you get to the part where you are both looking in the same direction?

Ah!  That would mean you are interested in some of the same things!  Besides learning braille together!

My suggestion would be to learn to play Lord of the Rings Online together.  If you and your girlfriend both enjoy playing this game then you are set for the next fifty years.

Because the creators of LOTR  are always adding on to it.  People have actually met, fallen in love and married because of this  game.  Can you believe it?  These are the lucky ones.  I have heard that some of them didn’t even find each other attractive physically.  But it doesn’t matter.

Because they are always looking in the same direction together.

I’ve fallen in love many times… always with you.  ~Author Unknown
This is one of my favorite quotes about love.  There is something very mysteriously wonderful about it.

“Thanks”

To all the love

In you.

Valentine’s Day is soon, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings

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In melody divine,
My heart it beats to rapturous love,
I long to call you mine.
~Author Unknown

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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. ~Robert Browning

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We loved with a love that was more than love. ~Edgar Allan Poe

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Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. ~Author Unknown

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Is it too early to start thinking about Halloween? I hope not. The cooler weather has arrived and in about eight weeks it will be firmly in control. Hopefully, the scary night will be downright chilly and dark paths will be covered with leaves that protest loudly when children scurry over them.

Summer is nearing an end. There were days when we exposed our bods to the elements without any protection except, perhaps, a thin layer of suntan lotion. But now things are changing and this year there is the worry about special varieties of flu.

Get those shots early! The regular ones are available now and in October the new ones will be ready they tell me. Some of us will not be coming back next summer because we paused before making our appointments!

And then the great Appointment Day will arrive. I hear Vincent Price laughing in the background…..

Oh well. The Grim Reaper comes for all of us in good time and we should have no fear. Enjoy the festivities while you can. I really have only one concern as the scary season approaches . . .

Where is Billy Mays?

And does he realize he no longer needs to pitch a variety of things for 19.95?

Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown

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At first cock-crow the ghosts must go

Back to their quiet graves below.
~Theodosia Garrison

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One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson

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Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn’t even the star of his own Halloween special. ~Chris Rock

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. ~William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990