Dear Vicki... I LOVE YOU!!!!!

Amazing cards... all of them from Vicki! THANK YOU VICKI! Sorry it's taken so long to post them all too :( I feel like such a bad blogger... btw, be on the lookout for something in the mail ;)6-28-11
"While we can, for as long as we can, oh let us believe." ~Isabel Colegate
"Courage is not the towering oak that sees the storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." ~ Unknown
6-21-11
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather and their own content." ~Paul Valery
6-18-11
"People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die."~Plato
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him." ~Arthur Miller
"We are the people our parents warned us about." ~Bumper Sticker
"When the prophet speaks the debate is over." ~President Kimball
6-23-11
"People are never so near playing the fool as when they think themselves wise." ~Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis
6-17-11
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." ~Samuel Johnson
"Among those whom I like, I can find no common denonminator, but among those whome I love, I can; all of them make me laugh." ~W.H. Auden
7-22-11
"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique." ~Walt Disney
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island." ~Walt Disney
7-15-11
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." ~Jimi Hendrix
"Fear has it's use, but cowardice has none." ~Mahatma Gandhi
7-18-11
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it's stupid." ~Albert Einstein
6-27-11
"Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real." ~Thomas Merton
"I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt - only love." ~Mother Teresa
6-30-11
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
6-15-11
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discovery is not 'Eureka!' (I have found it), but 'that's funny...'" ~Isaac Asimov

6-16-11
"Do you know what the chain of command is here? It's the chain I go get and beat you with to show you who's in command." ~Jayne Cobb (from one of my favorite TV shows, Firefly)
7-14-11
"But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." ~Anne Brontë
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet." ~French Proverb
"Sorrow is so easy to express and yet to hard to tell." ~Jodi Mitchell
7-1-11
"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever." ~Isaiah 40:8
This eagle's name is Spirit, and is apparently HUGE! I would like to see him in person...
7-4-11
"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
7-12-11
"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent." ~Charles MacKay
"A woulded deer leaps the highest." ~Emily Dickinson
"For love is immortality." ~Emily Dickinson
7-8-11
"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." ~Benjamin Franklin
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." ~Nelson Henderson
7-27-11
"Progress is a wonderful thing... as long as you don't let it go too far." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all it's powers of acting and reasoning as fear." ~Edmund Burk

I want to say THANK YOU SO MUCH Vicki for filling my mailbox with postcards. You bring me joy, and a smile to my face every day one arrives. I hope we can keep in touch through the mail the rest of our lives!!! I love you, and our friendship, I hope it grows stronger and stronger through the years! Miss you too :( We need to go to Disneyland again...