An Apple A Day

“Somebody pick me up, dust me off
bring me to life, 
Pretty broken baby, 
pick me up, dust me off, bring me to life. ”

—- from the song “Broken Doll” by Anna Nalick

“The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”  —- Peggy Fleming  (American figure skater, 1968 Winter Olympics)

“She’s tough, she’s confident. It’s funny, our beauty standard has become harder and tougher because we live in a tough age. I don’t think anyone wants to walk down the street and feel vulnerable. You want to walk down the street and feel like you’re in control.” —- Tom Ford

Street scene while driving around London.

“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.” 
Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4 

Springtime.  Time to plant.  

” Little girls are cute and small only to adults.  To one another they are not cute.  They are life-sized.”   ~Margaret Atwood

Hyde Park on the day of the Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding.

M&S staff goes shopping elsewhere for “quality food that’s honestly priced”……..

“Loyalty cannot be blueprinted. It cannot be produced on an assembly line. In fact, it cannot be manufactured at all, for its origin is the human heart-the center of self-respect and human dignity. It is a force which leaps into being only when conditions are exactly right for it-and it is a force very sensitive to betrayal.”
— Maurice R. Franks

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? ~Willie Nelson

Enjoying my Bhang hot chocolate at the only government licensed Bhang shop in Jaisalmer. Bhang is a derivative of marijuana.

“Save water. Shower with a friend”. 

My shower room in a hut in Khuri, India after a camel ride.

”You can drop humans anywhere and they’ll thrive ——- only the rat does as well.”

~ Jeannette Desor

Holy rats!! Karni Mata Temple or Temple of Rats at Deshnok, India. The rats are considered incarnations of storytellers.

“Top of the pops for me used to be The Diary of Anne Frank.  When I was a teenager, I used to really want to be Anne Frank.  Not the ending obviously, just the idea of living very simply in an attic, reading boks, keeping my diary, falling in love with the pale, sensitive Jewish boy in the attic next door.  That sounds a little bit perverse, doesn’t it?”  ~Alice, from the book

Brings back a lot of memories when I was growing up in the 80s….trying to fit in, wanting to be in the “in crowd”, problems with acne, teenage love, and more.