Oh Hump Day how I love you 
here's our hump day thought
“The only people with whom you should try to get even
are those who have helped you.”
~ John E. Southard
(1787 – 1842)
*Samuel Lewis Southard
Born: June 9, 1787
Died: June 26, 1842
was a prominent U.S. statesman of the early 19th century, serving as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, and the tenth Governor of New Jersey.
so gang it's Friday the 13th
are you superstitious, do you have certain paths you follow or don't
- Here's our Friday the 13th thought for the day
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“It is bad luck
to fall out of a thirteenth story window
on Friday.”Proverb; (from Latin: proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. If a proverb is distinguished by particularly good phrasing, it may be known as an aphorism.
Proverbs are often borrowed from similar languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. Both the Bible (Book of Proverbs) and medieval Latin have played a considerable role in distributing proverbs across Europe, although almost every culture has examples of its own.
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Thanks for this, Deb. I was wondering what book I wanted to add to my library, using my coupon, and my gift card that I received for buying my Nook....and these writings of John Steinbeck caught my eye. I ordered it.
This second volume in The Library of America's authoritative edition of John Steinbeck features his acknowledged masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath.
Written in an incredibly compressed five-month period, the novel had an electrifying impact upon publication in 1939, unleashing a political storm with its vision of America's dispossessed struggling for survival. It continues to exert a powerful influence on American culture, and has inspired artists as diverse as John Ford, Woody Guthrie, and Bruce Springsteen.
Tracing the journey of the Joad family from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the migrant camps of California, Steinbeck creates an American epic, spacious, impassioned, and pulsating with the rhythms of living speech. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize and has since sold millions of copies worldwide.
The text of The Grapes of Wrath has been newly edited based on Steinbeck's manuscript, typescript, and proofs. Many errors have been corrected and words omitted or misconstrued by his typist have been restored.
In addition, The Harvest Gypsies, his 1936 investigative report on migrant workers which laid the groundwork for the novel, is included as an appendix. The Long Valley (1938) displays Steinbeck's brilliance as a writer of short stories, including such classics as The Chrysanthemums, The White Quail, Flight, and The Red Pony. Set in the Salinas Valley landscape which was Steinbeck's enduring inspiration, the stories explore moments of fear, tenderness, isolation, and violence with poetic intensity.
The Log from the Sea of Cortez, an account of the 1940 marine biological expedition in which Steinbeck participated with his close friend Ed Ricketts, is a unique blend of science, philosophy, and adventure, as well as one of Steinbeck's most revealing expositions of his core beliefs. First published in 1941 as part of the collaborative volume Sea of Cortez, Steinbeck's narrative was reissued separately a decade later, augmented by the moving tribute About Ed.
Mountain_Muse wrote:We took the boys railroading in the mountains this weekend. Couldn't resist sharing this pic from the trip.
Just playing "kick the rock" on the way to the depot. Couldn't resist the shot.
Muse
Wonderful picture, Karen. I look at this picture and the feeling that comes over me is timelessness. I go back in time to the person who should be between these boys, Andy Griffith. I see Harper Lee and Turman Capote walking the back roads of their friendship, into the future of their literature.
I know this picture means something totally different to you,and everyone else.
But thank you for sharing this memory picture with me.
Kathy
