I feel like a stranger. I've been here so little lately, but it doesn't mean my thoughts have been far away. It's just that ... life can get hard! lol (just in case it hasn't for you, yet!)

Yes, I keep putting one foot in front of the other, and I'm usually still smiling, but I've been wrestling with some unusually high blood pressure ... situational, as I call it! And while I am certain all will be well, it's the day to day grind that tests my demeanor and stamina. Like the mountains in my header pic, sometimes the obstacles ahead look insurmountable, but ... there is a reason we are on this pathway. In celebration of LIFE, I have compiled some quotes. Enjoy!

• Life is just a chance to grow a soul. ~ Powell Davies
• And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abe Lincoln
• Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~ Albert Einstein
• Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. ~ Alan Bennett
• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.  ~ Emily Dickenson
• A useless life is an early death.  ~ Goethe
• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. ~ George Sand
• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~ John Dewey
• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.  ~ Marie Curie
• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Life is not a sprint, but an endurance race with every one that finishes a winner.  ummm ME

~ B