UNO

Uno (/ˈuːnoʊ/; from Italian and Spanish for 'one') is an American card game which is played with a specially printed deck (Mau Mau for an almost identical game played with normal playing cards). The game was originally developed in 1971 by Merle Robbins in Reading, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati. It has been a Mattel product since 1992. The game's general principles put it into the Crazy Eights family of card games.

Puzzle...

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”

santiz  Lewis Carroll

Positive and negative

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.
Dolly Parton

Boy...

Tears If tears could build a stairwell and memories were a lane, I would walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
No farewell words were spoken no time to say good-bye .
You were gone before I knew it, and only God knows why.
My heart still aches in sadness, and secret tears still flow. What it means to lose you, no one will ever know

 19 years ago my little boy came into this world, I wrapped my arms around him keeping him safe.
464 days ago he left me and is now an angel with his wings wrapped around me keeping me safe

Re-kindle

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Not as it seems

“A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun-drenched beach and does not send a card.”

--Farmer’s Almanac

Not really a tropical getaway... just some Winter sun in Adelaide

Do it....

Make today beautiful

 

 

Learn....

“A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.”
― John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

knelt

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”
― Robert Frost

River...

 

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

A tool...

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

Ayn Rand

Puzzles...

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

 Erno Rubik quotes 

Hustler...

Bert Gordon: Eddie, is it alright if I get personal?
Fast Eddie: Whaddaya been so far?
Bert Gordon: Eddie, you're a born loser.
Fast Eddie: What's that supposed to mean?
Bert Gordon: First time in ten years I ever saw Minnesota Fats hooked... really hooked. But you let him off.
Fast Eddie: I told you I got drunk.
Bert Gordon: Sure you got drunk. You have the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse. Winning... that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You'll drop that load too when you got an excuse. All you gotta do is learn to feel sorry for yourself. One of the best indoor sports, feeling sorry for yourself. A sport enjoyed by all, especially the born losers.
Fast Eddie: Thanks for the drink.

Photographic rules

Generally speaking, I'm not one to adovcate photographic rules, but I do think it helps to off the lens cap. - Catherine Jo Morgan

Radiance...

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

Reflection

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
Francois Truffaut

 

 

Live....

Life is full of beauty.
Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces.
Smell the rain, and feel the wind.
Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Ashley Smith

Adelaide uni...

Do you ever wonder if the stars shine out for you?
Float down
Like autumn leaves
Hush now
Close your eyes before the sleep
And you're miles away
And yesterday you were here with me

Autumn Leaves - Ed Sheeran

 

Wake me up, lower the fever
Walking in a straight line
Set me on fire in the evening
Everything will be fine
Wake me up strong in the morning
Walking in a straight line
Lately, I'm a desperate believer
But walking in a straight line

Something I will never forget
I felt desperate
And stuck to the marrow
Invisible to everyone else
I'm a sex-change
And a damsel with no heroine

Straight Lines - Silverchair

Lock up all your love and go and throw away the key

Carrie Underwood

 



“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.”
― George Carlin