"Never make someone a priority

 when all you are to them is an option."

       ~Maya Angelou~

"It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, 

to forgive. Forgive everybody."

          ~Maya Angelou~

Happy Memorial Day!

Look on the positive side

                                Being excluded gives one time to reaffirm one's belief in the whiteness of walls, 

the silence of empty rooms, 

 the moments you don't have to worry about forgetting.

That's as special as it gets.

Quote from Anne Lamontt

"When people try to tell you who you are, don't believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you."

"There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as life. Such grief, felt in such a way, is always present. It is never too late to talk about it, never repetitious to mention it again." ~Marcel Proust

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Burning the American Flag

There was an article in this morning's news about a town being upset because some little snot-nose had torched the American Flag in their town square. A bona-fide 'veteran' was all up in arms and thought they should hang the person if they caught him because it was such an affront to all those people who fought in all those wars (paraphrasing). 


Burning the flag, as reprehensible as it may seem, is protected under the 1st Amendment. Hanging someone, as the veteran suggests, is a crime - burning the flag isn't. As the daughter of a Korean war veteran resting in a B-29 at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, I guess I'll say this - if someone burns a flag, that is not against our men and women in uniform, it is generally a statement about government. Nationalism is as great a stimulus for war - almost - as religion. I tend to abhor both as they are meaningless, contrived, and deadly for all but those who profit from them.