Quotes of the week

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ~Hal Borland

For love of the ox the wolf licks the yoke. ~Proverb, (Catalan)

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.~Mark Twain

Meditation of the week

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THIS IS WHY THERE'S A RULE: Donna Munson, 74, fed dog food to bears around her mountain home near Ouray, Colo., despite 10 years of plea from state officials to stop. "It got to the point where she never opened her door for us, allowed us on her property or answered her phone," a state Department of Wildlife spokesman said. Munson even built a wire fence around her porch so she could hand food through it directly to the bears. Munson's handyman arrived to find her outside her home -- being eaten by a bear. Responding sheriff's deputies killed it, but Munson was already dead. Several other aggressive bears in the area have had to be killed this summer, and wildlife officials say they'll likely have to kill about a dozen more: they've lost their natural feeding instincts and instead approach humans when they're hungry. "More bears are going to be killed because of what this woman did," said an angry local. "It's a bad situation, and people are not happy about it." (Ouray Plaindealer, Denver Post) ...A fed bear is a dead bear.

Poem of the Week

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)