Zachary and Daddy being monkeys

We've been slowly purging and reorganizing our apartment the last couple of months. One of the things that is taking a lot of time is that we have taken A LOT of pictures in the last year or two, and have been somewhat dilatory in labeling and archiving them. So, we've been trying to remedy that.

Most of the pictures we take have something to do with our family and after I'd been labeling for a while, I noticed that our captions were centered around Zachary. They read as though they were written from his point of view. For example, the names of some of the people involved are Bill, Kay, Denny, and Joy. However, in the captions, they're always Grandma and Papaw Weber, or Grandma and Grandpa Fletter. Then I noticed that it's not just the pictures--the rest of our lives are centered around him. I always knew this was the way it would be. It just struck me a little differently when I was looking at and labeling all those photos.

And that's the way it should be.

Live life the best you can

I just wanted to share another quote that I like a lot.

When is a Man Educated?

When he can look out upon the universe, now lucid and lovely, now dark and terrible, with a sense of his own littleness in the great scheme of things, and yet have faith and courage. When he knows how to make friends and keep them, and above all, when he can keep friends with himself.

When he can be happy alone and high-minded amid the drudgeries of life. When he can look into a wayside puddle and see something besides mud, and into the face of the most forlorn mortal and see something divine.

When he knows how to live, how to love, how to hope, how to pray--is glad to live...and has in his heart a bit of a song.

-Joseph Fort Newton

I am definitely a proponent of keeping an open mind and trying to understand others. I try to live the best I can and empathize, regardless of race, religion, culture, etc. And the Golden Rule should be changed to "Do unto others as they would have done unto them." We can all get along.