Enjoying Life's Synchronicities: Edward Gorey

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-->"Climb a mountain to see, not to be seen." --David McCullough Jr
-->"Selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself" --David McCullough Jr
-->"Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader; and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put. " --The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
->"Recognizing good is the remedy for every woe." Susan Vreeland
-> "Love is friendship caught on fire." Elia Gourgouris
-> "Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on." Jonathan Franzen
-> "The world would be a better place if everyone dabbed calomine on welts of bad news." Pushing Daisies
-> "They do not love who do not show their love." Thomas S. Monson
-> "A dangerous path is made more so by darkness." Big Fish (movie)
->"People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity." Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
->"Every household needs one piece of furniture in really bad taste." Glass Castle, by Jeanette Wells
->"Laughter is like a fresh breeze--it cleans its way through the body." The Host, by Stephenie Meyer
->"Of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting." Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalad Hosseini
->"One can't pray for different musical notes--one can only ask to play as well as possible the notes one has been given." Quiet Girl, by Peter Hoeg

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Monday, February 25, 2013

It's a Gorey life

My daughter gave me an Edward Gorey puzzle for Christmas. Very difficult! I had helpers during the holidays but it has lain neglected for weeks. I finally got some down time when I was home sick a few days ago and finished it--just in time for Edward Gorey's birthday!

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Monday, February 25, 2013

It's a Gorey life