“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Quote of the Day – Steve Jobs
Posted in Inspirational, MLRowland, Quotes, tagged Inspirational, MLRowland, quotes, Steve Jobs on January 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Quote of the Day – Mahatma Gandhi
Posted in MLRowland, Quotes, tagged Gandhi, Inspirational, MLRowland, quotes, Search and Rescue, Service, Volunteering, Volunteerism on January 18, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Quote of the Day – Teddy Roosevelt
Posted in Environmental Issues, Nature, Quotes, tagged Conservation, Environmental Issues, Environmentalism, Nature, Politics, quotes, Teddy Roosevelt on January 17, 2012 | 42 Comments »
“Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”
Vacation Elation!
Posted in Blogging, MLRowland on January 16, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Hi, all! Been gone for a few days and will be for a few more for a much needed vacation, so no posts pending except a few Quotes and maybe a short blog or two. Hope to be back in full swing around the first of February. In the meantime, keep doing whatever you’re doing [...]
Quote of the Day – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Posted in Inspirational, Quotes, tagged Injustice, Jr., Justice, Martin Luther King, quotes on January 16, 2012 | 8 Comments »
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Quote of the Day – Dorothy Parker
Posted in MLRowland, Quotes, Writing, tagged Dorothy Parker, Humor, Paraprosdokian, quotes, Writing on January 14, 2012 | 4 Comments »
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”
Quote of the Day – Thomas Jefferson
Posted in MLRowland, Quotes, tagged 1%, 99%, Activism, Citizens United, MLRowland, Politics, quotes, Thomas Jefferson on January 10, 2012 | 3 Comments »
“When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.”
Color? Or Colour?
Posted in Blogging, MLRowland, Writing, tagged American English, blogging, Blogs, British English, English, Grammar, MLRowland, Spelling, Usage, Writing on January 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
A recent comment from a reader pointed out that I had a number of misspellings in my blog posts. My first reaction was, “Really?!?” While an occasional error may slip through, I proofread my blog posts pretty carefully before I publish them. Then I started wondering about why he or she would say there were misspellings. [...]
No Title Required
Posted in Inspirational, MLRowland, tagged character, MLRowland, Politics on January 9, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Photo by John Abel
The Case for Conservation
Posted in Environmental Issues, Nature, Quotes, tagged Activism, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Issues, Environmentalism, Inspirational, Nature, Politics, quotes, Teddy Roosevelt on January 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the ‘the game belongs to the people.’ So it does; and not merely to the people [...]
Quote of the Day – Teddy Roosevelt
Posted in Environmental Issues, Nature, Quotes, tagged Activism, Arkansas River, Colorado, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Issues, Environmentalism, MLRowland, Mountain, Nature, photography, pictures, quotes, River, Teddy Roosevelt on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.”
What the Heck is a Paraprosdokian?
Posted in MLRowland, Writing, tagged Dorothy Parker, Figures of speech, Humor, Paraprosdokian, Winston Churchill on January 5, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Someone sent me an e-mail with a list of paraprosdokians. What the heck is a paraprosdokian? I’d never even heard of the word before. A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech “in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected” and which causes the reader to re-consider or re-interpret the first [...]
Quote of the Day – John Muir
Posted in MLRowland, Nature, Photography, Quotes, tagged Activism, Colorado, Conservation, Environmental Issues, John Muir, Mule Deer, Nature, photography, pictures, quotes, Wilderness on January 4, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“In God’s wildness lies the hope of the world.”
Happy New Year!
Posted in Inspirational, MLRowland, Writing, tagged 2012, Happy New Year, Inspirational, Peace, Pray, Prayer, Writing on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Happy New Year! If you’re a writer, published or not, keep writing! If you’re a human being–live your life to the fullest!! Regardless of your religion, pray for peace! Here’s to a fabulous 2012 for all the world!
