"I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin."

-- Margaret Atwood

“Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.”

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“As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.”
“The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.”
“How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!”
“Man tried to imitate God by drawing; then we invented the photo.”
“It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth”
“Recent decades clearly demonstrate that the more secular our Public Schools become the less successful they become academically.”
“Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.”

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