"Isn't it obvious at last: Those that do not live in the future will be trapped and die in the past?"

- Ray Bradbury

"...you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness."

- Ray Bradbury

Richard, per Mr. Bradbury's quote. He had it right, as usual!!

You know Dasher and Dancer
And Prancer and Vixen
Comet and Cupid
And Donner and Blitzen
But do you recall
The most famous reindeer of all?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows.

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
“Rudolph with your nose so bright
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?”

Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee (yipee)
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
You’ll go down in history”
(Robert L. May, 1939)

"Merry Christmas to All...."

Thank God for this place!

But, I miss Nard Kordell badly!

"...sociologists, psychologists (both amateur and professional), and grand intellectual thinkers bore, distract, or irritate me to madness."

- Ray Bradbury

“In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.”

- Ray Bradbury