SSA Blog #030     By Michelle Drew     December 14, 2005

Tonight I will leave Wyoming, maybe for the last time. It has been
7 months of wonderful scenery, wonderful people and wonderful
wildlife. We have memories and stories to last a life time.
We owe a great debt to locals who have guided us toward the
best of what Wyoming has to offer. While this is not a place we
would want to call home, we highly recommend it for a visit.

All Good Thoughts

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first
or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yates

Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.
Langston Coleman

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be
given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money
is the gravy.
Bette Davis

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

Inspirational Reading

WHO'S YOUR BEST FRIEND?

Former prisoner James Knapp confessed to police that he'd robbed
two stores in Oklahoma, because he missed his old cell mates.
Police said they'd see if James could be reunited with his old
friends.

I think Mr. Knapp may have expressed something important,
however. Friends, wherever we find them, are absolutely
necessary.

But do you know who your best friend is? Automaker Henry Ford was
having lunch with a man, when he suddenly asked the man that very
question. "Who is your best friend?" Ford asked.

The man hesitated and Ford went on. "I'll tell you who your best
friend is," he said. Then he wrote this sentence for the man to
read: "Your best friend is he who brings out the best that is
within you." Our best friends are those who do more than simply
like us. They also believe in us. They support us but, occasionally,
they nudge us as well.

Someone put it well: "A friend is someone who knows you as you
are, understands where you've been, accepts who you've become,
and still, gently invites you to grow."

Now...who is your best friend?

Steve Goodier

Picture of the Day

Jackson Hole, Wyoming has a culture built around the wildlife
that live there. These big horn sheep adorn a wall of the Gun Barrel Restaurant

big horn xmas