mere #AbbaJaan sailor soldier teacher farmer the man who came from earth and returned to his village to dfarm taught me how not to pull out my roots for easy living and I'm back to were he was !! I thank him to allowing my wings to fly and provide me a tree to rest on !!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. -Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862)
The truth is that every morning war is declared afresh. And the men who wish to continue it are as guilty as the men who began it, more guilty perhaps, for the latter perhaps did not foresee all its horrors. -Marcel Proust, novelist (10 Jul 1871-1922)
I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die, people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death. -June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (9 Jul 1936-2002)