My interests include spending time with my husband, daughter and son, environmental issues and conservation behavior, gardening, playing with my dog and cats, reading, writing, cross-stitching, learning new skills and being self-sufficient. Since both my husband and I have families with Celtic roots, I'm also interested in Celtic culture. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other. --Edmund Burke
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. --Aldous Huxley
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. --Elihu Burritt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do. --Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. --Oscar Levant
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Mahatma Gandhi
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The photo currently featured by my name is by Kim Steininger, from the National Wildlife Federation's photo contest.