Shining My Lantern: 05/12/10

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I Won the WQOW Mother's Day Contest for My Mom

So my previous post said that I submitted an essay to the Mother's Day Contest at a local TV station, WQOW....and I won!!!! My mom received a $450 prize package, including a fountain/birdbath from Bobolink nursery, 12 rounds of golf at Hickory Hills, and $100 worth of meat from Sailer's meats. She had alot of fun picking out her merchandise. Here are a few snapshots of her birdbath/fountain and her freezer full of meat...

Favorite Quotes

"Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
~ Cormac McCarthy

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Life will send you whatever is needed for the evolution of your concsciousness.
~Eckhart Tolle

You become what you think about all day long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgiveness is the fragrance a violet leaves on the heel that has crushed it.
~Mark Twain

It is, and always was, all perfect.
~Wayne Dyer

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~Anatole France

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Howard Thurman

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
~Wayne Gretzky

My advice to all is this: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
~T.H. Huxley