A girl...Hope Minnick

Hope Minnick was born at 3:17 PM today. She weights 7 lbs. 7 oz, 20
inches long, and with brown hair. She is darling. Mother and baby are
doing well.
See the attached pictures!

Love ya,

Doug, Liz, Anne, Jane, Kate, and Baby Hope Minnick

"Knowledge is power, Wisdom is liberty"

-William Durrant

"The speed of light is faster than the speed of sound. That is why some people appear bright until they speak."

-Author Unknown

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

―From A Return to Love, by Marianne Williamson, read by Nelson Mandela, Former President of South Africa, 1994 Inaugural Speech

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in elimination of the non-essentials."

-Lin Yu Tang

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

-Benjamin Desreali

"Sometimes we take credit for being patient when we are only putting off doing something unpleasant."

-Author Unknown

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe."

-Anatole Frances

"You can live the impossible dream, or you can live an excuse- it is all up to you."

-Paul Kane

"Paddle your own canoe, even if you Dad owns a ship."

-Author Unknown

"Don't spit in the wind."

-Margaret Chambers

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost

(1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost, 1923