(Ok, different new avatar, now. LOL) Not the flower, obviously. :)

amor est spiritus qui nos alet
love is the breath that sustains us
~author unknown

My new avatar is a Morning Glory.
It is in the family Convolvulaceae, whose current taxonomy and systematics (HUH?) is IN FLUX. Yeah, that's me! My desired state of convoulsing is in flux! lol

Don't hurry
Don't worry
Don't forget to smell the flowers


"Never forget the music that is the soundtrack of our lives, for if we let the music die, something inside us dies along with it..." Alan Jankowski

Rafael Nadal--doesn't he look SO cool in his bandana? :0


"She was beyond thought, beyond emotion, achieving a state where all she could do
was experience." Author unknown

"Embrace your future, regret is too big a price to pay!"
~BIX

Plaque at the Statue of Liberty
"...'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!'
Emma Lazarus, 1883"

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values -Ayn Rand