· Quotes of the week

1. The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. ~Martin Luther King

2. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. ~Benjamin Franklin

3. Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference. Nolan Bushnell - Founder of Atari

4. A boil on one's neck interests one more than forty earthquakes in Africa. Dale Carnegie

· Meditation of the week

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

Author: Unknown

· Poem of the Week

Voyager upon life's sea,
To yourself be true,
And whate'er your lot may be,
Paddle your own canoe.

Anonymous

· Video of the week

See the joy of giving

· Websites of the week

Openbook allows you to search through the status updates of unwitting Facebook users to prove that your information is more easily available to anyone on the web than you ever thought it was. The site is built on the Facebook API, so any information Openbook can find is available to anyone on the Internet. http://youropenbook.org/

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/07/26/captured-america-in-color-from-1939-1943/2363/ (Thanks, son!)