Backpug

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read” – Groucho Marx

Photo taken by Kristopher Kotcher

Unfinished Business

“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece” – Vladimir Nabokov

Photo posted by Black Baron on ASOV

Wooden Dream of it

“Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”

Francis Bacon

Teacher’s Day in Vietnam. The florists are out in numbers.

“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“To Teach is to Touch A Life Forever” – Unknown

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Excelsior

I feel it’s a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling…to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Kevin Spacey

Photo from ‘Another Side of Vietnam’

Feeling Peckish

“Love like chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses it’s flavour” Helen Rowland

Photo Source: Unknown

Meals on Wheels

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.” Winston Churchill

Photo from ‘Motorbike-for-rent-in-saigon.com’

Bittersweet

“Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Complete Poems

Moments with the Family

“Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten” David Ogden Stiers

Photo by Jake Catlett

A Bike in a China Shop

“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.”

-Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders