November 14
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ~ Oscar Levant
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. ~ William Hazlitt
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint. ~ Pablo Picasso
[Appreciate art . . . ]
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. ~ Banksy
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. ~ Helen Rowland
October 17
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. ~ Alvin Toffler
[Senior college . . . ]
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill
[She was also very good last year talking about water . . . ]
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. ~ Malcolm Forbes
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. ~ Albert Einstein
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells
October 18
The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it. ~ Billy Crystal
[Alexandria vs. Elk River as the Cards were playing for a perfect 8-0 regular season record. Nevertheless, the Cards found time during the game for reruns of The Simpsons . . . ]
Why do kids play football? They can get hurt on any play, can’t they? Yet they can’t wait until Saturday comes around so they can play on the high school team, or the college team, and get smashed around. Writing is like that. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it! ~ Irwin Shaw
[The Elks were defending state champs in class AAAAA. Here, QB Chase Thompson (12) on a handoff to Mac Heydt (4) . . . ]
In high school, when I played football I got no respect. I shared a locker with a mop. ~ Rodney Dangerfield
On the last game of the season, the crowd was yelling, We want Youngman! We want Youngman! The coach says, Youngman – go see what they want! ~ Henny Youngman
[Chase on a drop back pass . . . ]
You have just so many holes in a line and you have eleven men playing, and there’s only so many ways you can go through those holes, and those ways have been used for forty, fifty years. ~ Red Grange
[Placekicker Daniel Jackson (9) in the hold of Evan Kludt (7) . . . ]
They don’t have much of a football team, but the half-time show . . . ~ Bill Maher
[The first of a scoreboard chronology . . . ]
I did play two years of high school football and was very short and uncoordinated but the second year I was very tall and skinny and very uncoordinated. ~ Kyle Chandler
I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece – the Kississia Colts – where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans. ~ Greg Kinnear
[The Elks crush people with an overwhelming rush attack. A great comeback by the Cards . . . ]
I’d done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. ~ Paul Newman
[The Elks last play of the game . . . ]
For some kids it’s art. For some it’s music. For me, it was strapping on those pads, yanking that helmet over my head, and getting out there with the team. ~ Rudy Ruettiger
[Snuffed out by the Cards . . . ]
I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn’t have a football team, so it’s the one sport I didn’t bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game. ~ Katie Aselton
[Let the celebration begin . . . ]
J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston’s newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness. ~ Hannah Storm
October 19
Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults. ~ Abraham Lincoln
[Meanwhile, back in senior college . . . ]
Journalism’s been a continuing course in adult education for me. ~ Bill Moyers
[She took me beyond my usual disinterest in royalty . . . ]
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs – in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence. ~ Daniel Goleman
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain. ~ Alan Turing
October 21
Donuts. Is there anything they can’t do? ~ Matt Groening
[Saturday morning doughnut pick up day with a display of the upcoming holiday . . . ]
October 22
It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon. ~ Sarah Addison Allen
[“Leafing” in the greater Alexandria Metropolitan Statistical Area . . . ]
Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change. ~ Katie Nicole Felton
[Lake Carlos on the left . . . ]
The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. ~ Henry David Thoreau
[More Lake Carlos . . . ]
Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar. ~ Delia Owens
[Rotary Beach, Lake Le Homme Dieu . . . ]
Autumn teaches us the beauty of letting go. Growth requires release – it’s what the trees do. ~ Ka’ala
[County Road 120 along the north end of Lake Le Homme Dieu . . . ]
Never jump in a pile of leaves with a wet sucker. ~ Linus
[Ditto . . . ]
Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love—that makes life and nature harmonize. ~ George Eliot
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves… ~ Virginia Woolf
It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves! ~ Winnie the Pooh
[It wasn’t open . . . ]
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. ~ e. e. cummings
[Believe this to be on the north end of Lake Carlos . . . ]
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~ Nova S. Blair
[Ditto . . . ]
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple. ~ J. K. Rowling
Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground. ~ Andrea Gibson
[In the vicinity of Carlos State Park . . . ]
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ~ Emily Bronte
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. ~ L. M. Montgomery
Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street…by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese. ~ Hal Borland
[Lake Carlos . . . ]
I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin, and crisp sunburnt leaves. ~ Ann Drake
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. ~ John Burroughs
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. ~ John Donne
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. ~ Elizabeth Lawrence
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year. ~ Chad Sugg
[The north end of Lake Darling . . . ]
Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
[Lake Darling from the Darling-Carlos Bridge . . . ]
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all. ~ Stanley Horowitz
[Alexandria Golf Club . . . ]
[And then it was on to see Killers of the Flower Moon . . . ]
History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of hindsight like an arrogant detective who seems to know the end of the mystery from the outset. ~ David Grann, quote from Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
As Sherlock Holmes famously said, “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~ David Grann, quote from Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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