Notes from ShellyCentral

Restraint

This is what I worked on yesterday and today.

travel quote

I travel not to go anywhere,

  but   to    go.

I travel for travel's sake.

    The great affair is to move.

-Robert Louis Stevenson

Quotes about Winter and Snow

This is my favorite quote about winter, because it's really about spring:

O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley *

Here are some others I like almost as much:

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

Every mile is two in winter.  ~George Herbert

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.  ~Proverb

The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.  ~Ward Elliot Hour

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."  ~Robert Byrne

Here's a little hope:

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
Earl Wilson

And finally, from the luckiest man alive:

I have never seen snow and do not know what winter means. - Duke Kahanamoku

* PS. I always liked Shelley a little bit because he almost has my name, and I'd love to be Shelly Shelley. Now I like him even more after sitting outside the house where he lived and later died next to the Spanish Steps in Rome.

Happy New Year

Wello hello 2010.
Please behave yourself.

I have big plans for myself in 2010. Most of them will be helped along if I can just keep this in mind:

"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

Said by George Bernard Shaw in the recent olden days, but super true still. Not just for me and George but for everyone. I'm going to try to trust myself more this year and not to the cranky voices that argue with the true one.