On April 6, 2015, as we waited in the
Portland airport for our return to Salt Lake City, Roland purchased what he
believed was a crossword puzzle book. It
had actually turned out to be a book of fill-in puzzles, something I was not
familiar with, but found enjoyed. I have
purchased many fill-in puzzle books since, and even some variety puzzle
books.
With the puzzle variety I have learned
that my favorite kinds of puzzles are fill-ins and brick-by-bricks. There are some puzzles that I haven't been able
to figure out how to play, some that seem more challenging and will take up
more time than I am willing to give. And
there's some I just refuse to do as they involve math and I am so not in the
mood (though I have been okay about sudoko - but not fill-in numbers. What's up with that?
Lately, however, I find that I have
been becoming quite good a cryptograms (Roland says the reason for algebra is
to think logically; well world, these
word puzzles are better than algebra for me.
They help me to think logically) and I would like to share some of the
quotes that I have translated. They
weren't given in alphabetical order - I know there's a better way to put them
order.
Actually
there's only a slight difference between keeping your chin up and sticking your
neck out, but it's worth knowing.
Grandparents
are the people who think your children are wonderful even if they're positive
you're not raising them right.
Great
thinkers are so constituted that they do not know their own thoughts until they
hear them issued from their own mouths.
I
feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man - the landscape of his
soul. - Martha Graham
If
you smile when no one else is around, then you really mean it.
No
one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for somebody else.
One
of the advantages of being young is that you don't let common sense get in the
way of doing things everybody else knows are impossible.
Science
has been producing so many substitutes lately that it's hard to remember what
it was we needed in the first place.
The
best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a
word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.
The
presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the
presence of those who think they've found it.
The
real difficulty about writing poetry is filling up the other twenty-three hours
of the day.
We
Act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of line, when all that we need to make us
really happy is something to be enthusiastic about
Why
pay money to have your family tree traced?
Just go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
Yosemite
Valley is always a surprise. A glitter
of green and golden wonder in a vast edified of stone and spade - Ansel Adams
You
don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a
merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why the parents
will always wave back.
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