John's One-Liners

"It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him."

"Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man."

"Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world."

---John Steinbeck

Heath Ledger

I really miss my brother.

Glasses are the greatest invention.

Glasses--both the drinking and prescription kind.

Think just for a moment if the drinking kind did not exist.

Sure, we could drink out of our hands, or bowls, or spoons.

Dogs have survived.

But they make drinking things so much easier.

And the prescription kind.

Do they even need an argument to be formulated

in their favor? I really don't think so.

And while we're on the subject,

I'm going to say something really crazy.

Glass in general---greatest invention ever.

Maybe you're one of those people

who loves to drive in your car with

wind blowing your hair in a wild

carpet bomb-like frenzy around your face

and everyone else's faces. And maybe

you love it when bugs are vacuumed onto your cheek bones

and into your eye sockets as you're driving home.

And maybe you also love shivering yourself to sleep

on a cold winter night because your windows don't have glass panes.

And maybe you prefer cheap, tacky, plastic christmas tree ornaments

that you found at Family Dollar.

But I don't. 

I don't know everything about glass.

But I know enough. 

And I drove across the country and stopped at lots of diners.

In the end,

we regret the chances we did not take, the relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make. 

Speaking of Stories from the Mountains.

We're experiencing some seriously beautiful 

weather here in the great state of Utah.

It has been an excellent way to wrap-up

a near perfect Autumn season. 

Also, I'm pretty into these web spaces right now:

And my favorite:

The mountains are calling, and I must go. 

"I don't know what lies around the bend,

but I'm going to believe that the best does."

-- Anne of Green Gables