Well, another year of my life has come and gone.  Looking back, I can’t say it was a good year, or a bad year… The roller coaster went in both directions so many times I lost count.  No matter how I look at it though, it was a VERY memorable time.  Ok, ’nuff said on that one.

Borg Tux

To follow up on my last post, well… I did it.  I got the tattoo, and I love the results!  I can’t say enough nice things about Chris and Lisa from Tattoo Mafia (http://www.tattoomafia.net).  From minute one they did everything to make the whole experience a great one.  I was very impressed with them, and with my new tat, and would recommend them to anyone who’s thinking about getting one.

One more wonderful birthday present to note, we got a good report back on Jonathan’s yearly checkup with the Hemotology/Oncology Doctor at A.I. DuPont Hospital.  As some of you know, we actually got Jonathan’s original diagnosis and prognosis on my 30th birthday so this time of year tends to make me twitch a little when the checkup comes around.  This year though, all is good and he’s doing just fine… <insert sigh of relief here>

Ok, now to the quotes.  As I noted last time, I’m a bit behind so I’m going to post a bunch to catch up.  Enjoy!

02/16 – “Love transforms; it simultaneously makes us larger and limits our possibilities. It changes our history even as it breaks a new path through the present.”  – Michael Dorrius

02/17 – “Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.”  – Hannah Moore

02/18 – “An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.”  – Harold Loukes

02/19 – “Love demands all, and has a right to all.”  – Ludwig Van Beethoven

02/20 – Phil was out of the office most of the day;  No quote.

02/23 – (Makeup for Friday) – “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”  – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

02/23 – “And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations
at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”  – Aristotle

02/24 – “The truth of love is the truth of the universe: it is the lamp of the soul that reveals the secrets of darkness.”  – Kabir

02/25 – Phil was out running most of the day and didn’t get one out in time.

02/26 – (Makeup for Wednesday) – “A mind might ponder its thought for ages, and not gain so much self-knowledge as the passion of love shall teach in a day.”  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

02/26 – “The brain gives the heart its sight. The heart gives the brain its vision.”  – Rob Kall

02/27 – “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.”  – ‘His Holiness 14th Dalai Lama’, Tenzin Gyatso

03/02 – (Snow Day) – “Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased.  It comes from Heaven, unasked and unsought.”  – Pearl Buck

03/03 – “Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.”  – Helen Rowland

03/04 – “Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.”  – T.S. Eliot

03/05 – “To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.”  – Francois Mauriac

03/06 – Hectic Office Day, Phil Forgot

03/09 – (Makeup for Friday) – “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”  – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

03/09 – “The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.”  – Jiddu Krishnamurti

03/10 – “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion -
I have shudder’d at it.
I shudder no more.
I could be martyr’d for my religion
Love is my religion
And I could die for that.
I could die for you.”  – John Keats

03/11 – “Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.”  – J.C. Powys

03/12 – “There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.”  – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

03/13 – “Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. “  – Rainer Maria Rilke

03/16 – Shannon’s Phone was Dead – No Quote Sent

03/17 – “Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”  – Aristotle

03/18 – “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. “  – James A. Baldwin

03/19 – “Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”  – Saint Thomas Aquinas

03/20 – “You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. “  – Henry Drummond

… And she continues to inspire me.