A New Year's Eve post - A goodreads quote from one of my fave authors

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.


Neil Gaiman

Stan Lee of Marvel shares my birthday - a goodreads's selected quote

Face front, true believers! 


Stan Lee
December 28, 1922: Happy 91st birthday, Stan Lee! The comic book legend got his start filling inkwells and fetching lunch at Timely Comics, which would eventually become Marvel. He went on to create characters like Spider-Man and the X-Men.

Happy Christmas to All

The Belen

Noche Buena

And the Lord Jesus visited, and came to stay

Senor Santo Nino de Perpetua Socorro

yolanda

people respond differently, and through different means
this was a test,  and there were many bad reviews of people who ought to know better but did not

at the same time there were people who moved quietly, without fanfare

change begins with one person, youself.

a James Thurber quote from Goodreads

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer. 


James Thurber
December 8, 1894: Funny, dark, and slightly surreal, American writer and cartoonist James Thurber started out at the top, with drawings published in the New Yorker, thanks to his friend E.B. White, who was a writer at the magazine. Thurber was born in Ohio, 119 years ago today.

Which one?  At some point in our lives, we have all been nomads.

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A Goodreads quote on Pleasures

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. 

C.S. Lewis
November 22, 1963: C.S. Lewis, the British writer who created the magical land of Narnia, died 50 years ago today. On that same day, author Aldous Huxley also died and John F. Kennedy was assassinated.