Blog This Mom!: Happy Haikulidays

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You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle.
~God in Bruce Almighty

If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?
~God in Evan Almighty

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~George Bernard Shaw

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~Albert Einstein

Just follow your heart. That's what I do.
~Napoleon Dynamite

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~Frank Costello in The Departed

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
~Mark Twain

This is a doughnut stuffed with M&Ms. That way when you're finished with the doughnut you don't have to eat any M&Ms.
~Dr. Rick Marshall in Land of The Lost

I can't control the cards I'm dealt, just how I play the hands.
~Professor Randy Pausch

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
~Professor Randy Pausch

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
~Michael Jordan

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
~Mohandas Gandhi

To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing.
~Raymond Williams

Friday, December 03, 2010

Happy Haikulidays

the best gifts of all
are not found under the tree
they look upon it

29 comments:

Green Girl in Wisconsin said...: Perfectly writ, madam.; December 03, 2010 11:06 AM
Sarah J Clark said...: I love the way you say Haikulidays.

Mele Kalikimaka!; December 03, 2010 11:45 AM
Burgh Baby said...: Damn, you're good.; December 03, 2010 11:53 AM
Janet said...: love that tree!; December 03, 2010 12:36 PM
Gary's third pottery blog said...: Cheri = Linus :); December 03, 2010 3:32 PM
Both Sides of Ben said...: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Hv9YmhGpw; December 03, 2010 4:23 PM
MJ said...: Well-done; December 03, 2010 9:02 PM
Pumpkin Delight said...: So true. I find haikus so hard to write (I'm too wordy). Well done.; December 03, 2010 10:50 PM
Shana said...: Lovely. If that is really your tree, I am in awe.; December 04, 2010 5:33 AM
Shana said...: the best posts of all
are not found on the bloggess
but on blog this mom; December 04, 2010 5:34 AM
Shana said...: PS: I love the Bloggess. But not as much as I love Cheri.; December 04, 2010 5:35 AM
blognut said...: All of the sudden, I feel warm and fuzzy.; December 04, 2010 5:37 AM
Jason, as himself said...: Especially you!; December 04, 2010 9:26 AM
kcinnova said...: I love your little Charlie Brown tree!; December 04, 2010 10:56 AM
Amber M. said...: Loves!; December 04, 2010 1:11 PM
dkuroiwa said...: Your tree is splendid
Your message is to the point
You? Simply divine.; December 05, 2010 2:14 AM
apathy lounge said...: Less is more.; December 06, 2010 4:58 PM
Life As I Know It said...: Aw, I love this.
And that's the cutest tree I've ever seen!; December 07, 2010 12:47 PM
bipolarlawyercook said...: You've decided me. I was feeling bad about not wanting to put up the tree this year, and I'm going to go ahead and get my Charlie Brown one out instead.

You always get right to the essence of things.; December 08, 2010 5:52 AM
yogurt said...: I want that tree.; December 09, 2010 8:56 PM
San Diego Momma said...: You are my tree.; December 13, 2010 7:34 PM
Aunt Snow said...: Love this.

I am always torn between the impulse to overdo it and the impulse to be simple.

After five years of simple (our son's senior HS year plus 4 years of college) we are now planning to do a real tree and decorations to greet his visit home from grad school.

I love your take on simple.; December 15, 2010 10:33 PM
Jen said...: marvellous minimialism; December 17, 2010 3:32 AM
Badness Jones said...: Love it!; December 17, 2010 4:21 AM
smalltownmom said...: It's the Charlie Browniest.; December 17, 2010 7:05 AM
unmitigated me said...: But....but...where's Linus's blanket?; December 17, 2010 7:10 AM
Susan said...: Just soo clever.; December 17, 2010 7:49 AM
Jen on the Edge said...: Love it.; December 17, 2010 8:02 AM
Angela said...: So true and so cute! Lovely haiku!!!; December 18, 2010 10:29 AM