December | 2015 | gardenliliepub

Jane Dougherty from WordPress has invited me to to post quotes for a ‘3 day 3 quote challenge.’ Quotes are all over the internet to build you up and give you that bit of courage to propel you forward. For this three day challenge the quotes may not be my all time favorites, just important right now! Also to save time I’ll have to put all my quotes here on one post. I’m such a rule breaker. And because he was and is so popular I’ll post two quotes from Mark Twain.

Mark Twain wrote this saying. “I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” And for those of us who like to think we are somewhat of a rebel here’s a spot on dandy! “Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.”

I think it may have been fun to be in Mark Twain’s company like this next picture and just hang out.

Parents have to be diversified as each child has their own unique qualities, right?! We are older and wiser, well, sometimes what they say stands out and our memory brings us back to the fine or not so fine distinctions. Twins love each other but can be competitive. When one outdoes the other you might catch a chase throughout the house like I did. Right before the one chased the other at age 11 to pounce on her she said, “It’s Megan’s time to shine.”

Finally, for the third quote I’ll give you one from me. I wrote a large quantity of poetry a couple years ago and plan to write another volume. Somehow, poetry has always been in my life though I had no formal instruction. I’ll blame that on my schooling. What I did have was a father who could recite poetry and was an intelligent, philosophically inclined man. My grades weren’t good enough to be in the fun class that studied poets and Shakespeare. I lost out then but stored it up for the right time. So here I am.

This quote of mine reminds me of a tragedy that befell the bridge down in the keys. I learned about Henry Flagler building a bridge to connect the islands, as he wanted to bring tourists to Key West, while researching for my next novel ‘North Depot 1922.’ A hurricane wiped out the workers and construction of the bridge was halted as it was near completion I believe in the twenties. They didn’t know whether to stay or leave. You can see it sits aside the new bridge.

Quote by Kim. “The storm comes upon us, go now if you must, stay if you can weather Mother Natures abyss.”