A Message

I won't be posting again until mid-April.  In the meantime, I invite new readers to  browse the archives.  The search engine on the right sidebar is quite good at locating items by subject. 

Here are a few "parting shots."



"There is in every life some perfect thing that makes all the imperfections tolerable and the thought of any other life inconceivable."


"Beware a belief that has long stood the test of not being challenged."


"Occasionally in our busy lives we should pause to weed out those of our beliefs that are preposterous."


"All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you."


"There are beliefs so enduring that they do not require that anyone believe them."


"If you could travel back from the future to the present moment, what would you do differently?"


"It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them."


"I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are."


"You get to an age when no matter what happens you wish somebody would put a stop to it."


"We pick on the devil, but he's only representing his base constituency."


"The trouble that finds me and not my child has taken the decoy."


"It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild."


"A watched child never learns."


"Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme."


"As you get older, you still seek the meaning of life, but it becomes more important to seek it in good company and in pleasant places and with 4 o'clock cocktails."


~~ Robert Brault

Our Resident Cynic Takes a Turn

"You cannot challenge a belief that people do not insist be true."


"A lie always has a reason, the reason also a lie."


"Strange as it seems, you are not apt to find your soulmate at a place you hate to go to, doing something you hate to do."


"A requirement of any happy moment is that we be aware it will end and normal life will resume."


"It can be said of Edison that he forced people to come up with a whole new list of material things they thought would make them happy."


"Okay, we know that if you were raised in Hawaii, you were raised in Kenya, but where were you raised if you were raised in Alaska?"


"Meanwhile, word of a major event along the San Andreas fault has reached the 47 contiguous states."


"I am dubious that anything can bring happiness to the world if indoor plumbing could not."


"There is more love at second glance than at first sight."


"To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life."


"If you feel you're missing out on romance, think of all the people who went to the top of The Empire State building today and didn't meet."


I'm at this seance the other day, and Madame So-and-So is telling me that the knocking sound is my dear departed Aunt Trudy. And I'm thinking, "When did Aunt Trudy ever knock?"


"Meanwhile, a couple of hunters sighted the first Crescent Nail-tail Wallaby seen in a hundred years and report that it tasted like chicken."


~~ Robert Brault

Thoughts to Make You Stop and Wonder Why You Stopped

"There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles."


"Whether you think your kids love you or hate you depends pretty much on your interpretation of blank looks."


"You can't look at the stars without wondering how the goings-on on this planet will ever cover the overhead."


It would be interesting if the first communication picked up from outer space is a small voice singing, "Twinkle, twinkle, little star."


"In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are."


"What does it matter if a thing is fate or coincidence, if God knew."


"In America there is a presumption of innocence that one can only hope Wall Street finds embarrassing."


"You see in grown animals both an awareness of duty and a sense of guilt, which makes you wonder why they never check on their parents."


"I don't understand what it is to crave recognition.  I like recognition.  I crave chocolate."


"We don't hear from the dead, but then we don't usually hear from people who have everything they want."


"It's people who think they have you all figured out who give you your edge in life."


"Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?"


~~ Robert Brault