Barb's Observations

catsbeaversandducks: Oh no! Origami Cat invasion! Run for your...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:08:12 -0500

Oh no! Origami Cat invasion! Run for your lives!

Photo via Confuddling or What?!

Favstar.fm: Plagiarism - how to deal with a plagiarist on Twitter

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:10:32 -0500

Favstar.fm: Plagiarism - how to deal with a plagiarist on Twitter:

Every week I get notified of someone who’s copying another person’s tweets without attribution. Sometimes it’s a Twitter newbie with 10 followers who doesn’t really understand it’s wrong, and other times it’s people with 100,000+ followers who knowingly steal high-quality tweets to get themselves…

Such beauty!

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:16:37 -0500

Such beauty!

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:15:14 -0500

"…I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each..."

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:59:57 -0500

“…I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

- Perks of Being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky (via austentatious)

It’s easier to love the masses you’ve never met collectively than to love the individuals you do know.

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Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:57:55 -0500

catsbeaversandducks: “It’s 4:00 am… WHERE’S. MY. DAMN....

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:55:44 -0500

catsbeaversandducks:

“It’s 4:00 am… WHERE’S. MY. DAMN. BREAKFAST?”

Via derpy cats

That’s a cat, all right.

catsbeaversandducks: “Oh, don’t mind me. Please keep eating...

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:07:55 -0500

catsbeaversandducks:

“Oh, don’t mind me. Please keep eating your pizza…”

Photo by ©ViimaMiu

How could one see that face and not share?

Corrie has earned the right to make such statements. She has...

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:53:11 -0500

Corrie has earned the right to make such statements. She has lived every word she utters.

elange1: please. come back… to me? E Some people are in our...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:50:04 -0400

elange1:

please. come back… to me?

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Some people are in our hearts forever.

elange1: X E xxxxxx Enjoy your uniqueness.

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:44:12 -0400

elange1:

X E xxxxxx

Enjoy your uniqueness.

mmrome: Cristina Evani wall Such a place for contemplating the...

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 07:05:08 -0400

mmrome:

Cristina Evani wall

Such a place for contemplating the power of the Great Creator.

Even a praying mantis.

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:18:49 -0400

Even a praying mantis.

mmrome: Cristina Evani wall That’s my kind of retreat!

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:35:12 -0400

mmrome:

Cristina Evani wall

That’s my kind of retreat!

This is how autumn makes me feel.

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:12:38 -0400

This is how autumn makes me feel.

stevehoffacker: “Where Streamers Come From” - Crepe Myrtle -...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 13:47:31 -0400

stevehoffacker:

“Where Streamers Come From” - Crepe Myrtle - Steve Hoffacker

Really? I never suspected. I just thought these were beautiful. I’ll have to feel one of these while they are blooming.

An essential breakfast component. Cereal isn’t the same...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 07:57:31 -0400

An essential breakfast component. Cereal isn’t the same without them. I dread the end of the season every year when I have to start using frozen or dried.

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 24 September Happy...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 02:05:03 -0400

amandaonwriting:

Literary Birthday - 24 September

Happy Birthday, F. Scott Fitzgerald, born 24 September 1896, died 21 December 1940

My Top 12 F.Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on Writing

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves—that’s the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives—experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.

You can stroke people with words.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

Action is character.

Fitzgerald is regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Considered a member of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920s, he finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tender Is the Night, and his most famous, The Great Gatsby.

by Amanda Patterson

So wonderful there is always a new day for a fresh start.

Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:54:49 -0400

So wonderful there is always a new day for a fresh start.

deewestcott: Pick yourself up and Dust Yourself off...

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:00:40 -0400

deewestcott:

Pick yourself up and Dust Yourself off ;)

littledreamerincolour:

Queued - in Paris until 3rd September :)
1 an hour 10am-10pm