Happy New Year!

If you're one of the very small handful of people stopping by to see the latest entry, I'm afraid this is the last one for now. While I greatly enjoyed the daily challenge of finding the perfect picture to go with the perfect quote, my free time has been greatly diminished at present due to some health issues with my mom. Probably because it's been around for a couple of years now, my original blog, "Keepin' Up With The Joneses" is still checked by enough people that if I have to let one go, this one is it. I may try to incorporate the idea at times in the other one; we'll see.

So for now, I wish you farewell and hope that 2011 is your best year yet. I'll leave you with a thought provoking quote that has given me pause more than once in recent years. May we not be one of the "most men".

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."
~Henry David Thoreau

"For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
~T.S. Eliot

"Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man."
~Benjamin Franklin

"Glory to God in highest heaven, who unto man His Son hath given; while angels sing with tender mirth, a glad new year to all the earth."
~Martin Luther

"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
~C.S. Lewis

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."
~Albert Schweitzer

"Courage is found in unlikely places."
~J.R.R. Tolkien