It was a good day today, I'll put up whatever pictures I have a little later. I'm very grateful for the chances I have to go out and learn and see and be with my friends.
I'm not terribly inspired to write right now, but I have a whole tray-full of websites and articles that I've been wanting to post on for a while, so here goes:
Spamarama is an important Austin tradition, right up there with Eeyore's Birthday Party and the Old Pecan Street festival. Fun things like that are just one more of the reasons that I like Austin so much (even if it's raining).
Letter and e-mail writing are very important to me, even though I don't get to do it very often. I'm scared of the art of the epistolary being lost in our modern culture; and though I am amazed at technology and its ability to link us together more quickly and more extensively than ever before, I worry that we are losing are ability to write well due to the new "Internet lingo" that prevails in e-mails and instant messages. I'm not saying that we should always write in the most formal style we can--we should surely find our own personal voices--but there are things that I think can make a letter better and more personable. Anyway, that's why I liked this article called, "Choosing the right e-mail send off can be tricky." It's right about it being tricky, I take a lot of time, relatively speaking, to come up with those seemingly inconsequential details like titles, greetings, and closings--even on an e-mail.
I think I'm going to update a few more times with another link to the AAS wildflower photos as more are added every few days. I really do enjoy looking at the wildflower pictures that readers take--heck, I really like photographs in general--and I'm glad that folks appreciate the beauty of the nature that God created.
An interesting concept from the USPS. I'm not at all happy about the stamp price increase last year, and I'm not looking forward to the rate-hike coming up in May. I will probably end up buying some of these 'forever' stamps so I don't have to keep placing a bunch of one-cent stamps all over my envelopes (of which I finally bought a sheet of fifty a couple weeks ago so I don't have to keep buying them a few at a time from the machine).
That's all for now. Here's a thought of the day relating to what I have been working on and what I need to work on more:
"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."
-Thomas Fuller
1 comment:
that's a good quote especially since I thought I first read "He does not live, that does not live according to his belief"
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