Rose Thorns & Glue

Necessity is the Mother...

2009-02-14T12:37:00.000-08:00

As with most projects in my life these days, the only reason I am posting to my poor neglected blog is out of necessity. I told a client that sure, I can create a blog for you and have it feed into your website's home page. Hmmmm... I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...

Creating the blog, I can do that. And I found a great website callled www.rss-to-javascript.com that will create the feed for me. Now I just need to play with the settings. And to do that, I need more than the two sorry-excuses-for-posts that I added two years ago. Hence my current rambling.

I think this will do for now. Ta-ta for another two years...

A picture is worth a thousand minutes

2007-07-21T11:01:00.000-07:00

"We had to make due with rose thorns and glue..."

2007-07-19T13:05:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite lines from my all-time favorite children's book -- "Stand Back," said the Elephant, "I'm going to Sneeze" by Patricia Thomas (Author), Wallace Tripp (Illustrator). I read this line more than thirty years ago and it still pops into my head on a regular basis. Everytime I hear the words "we'll have to make due," I have to finish the thought. "With rose thorns and glue," I say under my breath. If you have never read this story, please do! It is a beautifully written and illustrated story of an elephant with a tickle in his trunk. The other animals beg and plead with him not to sneeze... they know from experience the havoc and physical harm that results from an elephant sneeze. I won't give the rest of the story away... just enough to tell you that, when the bees lost their stingers, they bravely said "we had to make due with rose thorns and glue." Adaptability. Creativity. Two of my favorite themes these days...