# of households that reported struggling to buy enough food in 2008 jumped 31% over the previous year: http://ow.ly/D4XB

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. ~Vernon Howard

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ~William Faulkner

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ~Albert Einstein

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Day 14/The Great Illness of 2009: Today ears popping. Are they clearing? or is it a cruel joke that my ears are playing? +side? not dizzy.

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is,
I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~Robert Bridges, "Testament of Beauty"

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin