You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~Charles Buxton

So much has happened since we were last here.

Could feel really guilty about my absence from blogging but I’m not going to.

While I was surfing for blogging inspiration I ran across … 10 Writing Tips from the Masters  a short, sweet and inspirational piece.

Found myself pondering the quote …

The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute.  If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything. ~John Irving

Suppose that applies to more than just blogging.

[wink & smile here]

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun

Sending a letter or card is the next best thing to showing up personally at someone’s door.

Why …

Ink from your pen touches the stationary, your fingers touch the paper, your saliva seals the envelope. Something tangible from your world travels through machines and hands, and deposits itself in anothers mailbox. Your letter is then carried inside as an invited guest. The paper that was sitting on your desk, now sits on another’s. The recipient handles the paper that you handled. Letters create a connection that modern, impersonal forms of communication will never approach.

Words of wisdom taken from The Art of Letter Writing

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet. - Mark Twain

What is copyright protection?

The U.S. Copyright Office offers introductory answers to frequently asked questions about copyright, registration, and services of the Office. Links throughout the answers will guide you to further information on their website.

For any other questions, please visit their Contact Us page.

I’m just wondering how they decide on the FAQ that made the main list.

Bet you won’t believe me that … How do I protect my sighting of Elvis? … made the list.

Who thinks up this stuff?

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter

The U.S.P.S creed.

It’s not a secret that mail is delivered six days a week, rain or shine.

This has been going on since 1775 when Benjamin Franklin was appointed first Postmaster General by the Continental Congress.

Interesting little bit of trivia … don’t you think?

God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.

How in the world can anyone consider a catalog to be junk mail?

I don’t get it. Especially this time of year.

All of those beautiful home & garden catalogs filled with beautiful images of floral days to come.

Cool how my minds eye can just picture so many of the offerings replicated in the yard.

Even though I prefer a mailed version of catalogs, there are a few favorite online garden spots I love to visit …

OC Farm Supply

Organic Gardening

Summer Hill Seeds

and no spring planting season would be complete BHG’s Free Garden Plans.

Nothing better than digging dirt!

Have a great weekend!

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ~Thomas Jefferson

Why do people have to pretend to know everything?

If you don’t know the answer to a question why don’t we just say, “I don’t know, but let me find out and get back to you with an answer.”

The Bottom Line: The Truth Doesn’t Hurt

In any case, those three little words are not a sign of weakness.

Saying “I don’t know” is a sign of strength and is the most honest thing you can say.

  The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writer’s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper.

  Let us suppose we have received one of those perfect letters from Mary, one of those letters that seem almost to have written themselves, so easily do the words flow, so bubbling and effortless is their spontaneity. There is a great deal in the letter about Mary, not only about what she has been doing, but what she has been thinking, or perhaps, feeling. And there is a lot about us in the letter—nice things, that make us feel rather pleased about something that we have done, or are likely to do, or that some one has said about us. We know that all things of concern to us are of equal concern to Mary, and though there will be nothing of it in actual words, we are made to feel that we are just as secure in our corner of Mary’s heart as ever we were. And we finish the letter with a very vivid remembrance of Mary’s sympathy, and a sense of loss in her absence, and a longing for the time when Mary herself may again be sitting on the sofa beside us and telling us all the details her letter can not but leave out.

This is a vintage ad ... probably told you to stopping eating bad things & get off your rear end!

We’ve all heard that losing weight can …

• Lower your cholesterol levels
• Reduce your blood pressure
• Increased energy level
• Stop the need for daily antacid medication
• Reduce aches & pains
• Improve mobility
• Improve breathing
• Help you sleep better
• Prevention of angina, chest pain caused by decreased oxygen to the heart
• Decreases your risk of sudden death from heart disease or stroke
• Prevention of Type 2 diabetes
• Improved blood sugar levels

It’s all true!

Just makes you feel better all over!

Once you get started and the results start showing, that’s all you need to motivate yourself to keep going:)

Cheers to a happy and healthier life!

“I wasn’t that grateful of a person,” said Kralik. “I wasn’t noticing the good things that happened to me each day. I wasn’t noticing the good people I was encountering every day.”

People like his daughter’s piano teacher or the woman who cuts his hair, even the woman at Starbucks, who he thanked just for making the effort to remember his name.

“I did feel it changed my life,” Los Angeles attorney John Kralik said.

see more … http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/24/assignment_america/main7279295.shtml

Inspiring!