Dream On, Dreamer

“You don’t need to explain your dreams. They belong to you.”

—	Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho

Adventure

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.”

—	Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.”

—	Andrew Carnegie

Immortal

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

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Unknown

The Royal Family

This never fails to make me laugh, friends. Prince Harry disguising himself as Prince William.

"When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
- Samuel Johnson, 1777

Monotony

“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom: absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this or die like this without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”

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Anaïs Nin

“They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.”

—	Daniel Handler, Adverbs

Drowning

“When sadness was the sea, you were the one that taught me to swim.”

—	Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You

“Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?”

—	Joseph Gogler

When Bridget Comes to Town

I just realized, I never told you what happened when Bridget came back to Ohio for a weekend, so I’ll let these pictures tell the story.

11:11 on 11-11-11!

We wished for world peace.... Going big!

We had a great time, and I can’t wait until I get to see her again!

Memories Always Come With Pictures

Day 10 – a photo taken over 10 years ago of you

I’m not sure how old I was in these pictures; probably around three or four. We have so many pictures from our childhood, and I love these three of me when I was younger. Wasn’t I precious?

Lighthouses, Beaches and Benches

Day 9 – a photo you took

I took this picture in Petoskey, Michigan on Vacation a couple years ago. We were on the pier at sunset one night, and I got a lot of really great shots.

This was taken up on Lake Superior, on the beach where we stayed for a couple of days in Michigan. It was so gorgeous, looking out the window and seeing the waves crashing on the sand.

I’m not sure what beach this was taken at, but it was taken on the way home from Michigan, in a nature park somewhere along the way.

This picture was taken when we got off the boat, coming back from Mackinac Island. It’s a bench along the beach in a park.

This is another bench in that same park. You can actually kind of see Mackinac Island across the water. I don’t know why I love this picture so much, but I do. It’s one of my favorites from the trip.