Thank you Lewis Carroll, for teaching me the difference between meaning what I say, and saying what I mean.

June 27, 2013

Imaginative Opinion

Human beings are blessed with the gift of imagination, which leads them to imaginatively have a much higher opinion of themselves then they truly deserve.
~M.R.M.

June 25, 2013

The Straight and Narrow

Most of the people in this world try and stick to the "straight and narrow", not because they want to get to heaven, but because they don't want to go to hell. Regardless of how ill founded that line of reasoning might be,  we may already be there.
~M.R.M.

June 24, 2013

The Crossroads

Mistakes are the bread crumbs that lead to the crossroads of failure and success.
M.R.M.

June 21, 2013

Glory

If you seek glory, you will be highly disappointed with the tin crown you receive.
M.R.M.

June 19, 2013

Effort

An ounce of effort is worth a thousand pounds of knowledge.
M.R.M.

June 18, 2013

Forever Gone

I have witnessed the death of four loved ones; I have tearfully said my good-byes and yet I have found no closure. What I have found is the magnificent multitude of unique behaviors that a life time of living produces in a human being have suddenly vanished. Yes, there are my memories, but those dim pictures of reality are a poor attempt to re-create that which is forever gone.
M.R.M.

June 17, 2013

The Final Detail

We plan our lives and the lives of our children in almost every aspect, while giving short shrift to the fact that death is the final detail.
M.R.M.

June 14, 2013

Strings

Life is an miraculous and amazing gift with innumerable strings attached.
M.R.M.

June 13, 2013

The Legacy

What one dreams or proposes, speaks or writes, hopes or believes- these are the smoke and mirrors of life. But what ones does and why they do it, therein lies the legacy.
M.R.M.

June 12, 2013

Intuition

It becomes easy to rely on perceptivity, but hard to distinguish it from true intuition when it commingles with fear and prejudice.
M.R.M.

June 11, 2013

Unforgotten

No one truly dies unless forgotten.
M.R.M.

June 10, 2013

The Abyss

I have leaped into the abyss of darkness and confronted the enormous fear that resides there. I have emerged neither triumphant or defeated, but willful.
M.R.M.

June 7, 2013

The Enigma

Leap into the pool of paradox; embrace the enigma of life. "To be or not to be?" is not the question.... it's the answer.
M.R.M.

June 6, 2013

Love and Heartbreak

Love goes down easily, like swallowing the nectar of the gods; heartbreak comes up violently, like lava from an erupting volcano.
M.R.M.

June 5, 2013

Crystal Ball

What the prognosticators, prophesiers, and fortune-tellers fail to understand is that anything can change everything.
M.R.M.

June 4, 2013

Lies

Small lies breed suspicion, large ones — believability.
M.R.M.

June 3, 2013

A Slippery Thing

Truth becomes a slippery thing, when the critical analysis required to verify it is biased and deficient.
M.R.M.