Welcome to Violet's Garden
Hello and welcome! This is my little garden of relection, ideas, and personal thoughts.  Violet is my favorite color, as well as a long-ago nickname. My online handle mixed with my three lucky numbers comprise my Yahoo! email address for this site.  I'm originally from Chicago (born and raised in a community called Roseland), and now live in Northwest Indiana with my family.  I've previously worked as a nurse in several hospital and medical office specialties.  I currently work as an Internet news researcher and assistant online-news editor.
Current likes include talk radio (WLS AM), movies, gardening, travel, classic novels, historical biographies, some country music, and all songs by The Beatles.  I believe everything one needs to know about life can be found in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz."
Always remember, like an old Chinese fortune cookie once said, everything happens for the best.

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A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
Good things grow here.
Favorite Links:
123Greetings: Free Online Greetings
Flickr: Photo Sharing (works with Yahoo! ID)
Happy News
Internet Movie Database
Netflix
Northwest Indiana Times Newspaper
Open Directory Project
Path to Freedom
Pogo: Free Internet Games
The Slowskys
Tribal Pages: Climbing the Fisher-Hentig Family Tree
U.S. Political Fact Checker
Favorite Well-Known Poems
We Are Seven
The Road Not Taken
On Children
If
The Tyger
Fog

All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderfull, the Lord God made them all.
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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violet369@yahoo.com
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Adopt one by one until there are none.


Favorite Inspirational Movie Quotes

"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
     ~ Strictly Ballroom (1992)
"A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."
     ~ The Wizard of Oz (1939)
"Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go away should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny."
     ~ Babe (1995)
"Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised."
     ~ Dan in Real Life (2007)

Related Links:
Movie Quotes: Discussion, quotes, and quizzes
Reel Life Wisdom
Wikipedia: AFI's 100 Years - 100 Movie Quotes


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"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." ~Galatians 5:22
"Kindness out of season destroys authority." ~Sandi
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions." ~Kahlil Gibran
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." ~The Dalai Lama
"In the end, only kindness matters." ~Jewel

Personal News

Still reading? Good! Lastly, I'd like to share activity updates, holiday wishes, remembrances, tributes, and other miscellaneous information for family and friends who are near or far, never forgotten, and always loved. Please forgive the infrequency of any updates. Thanks and God bless.

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    Past news (brief and infrequently posted) is kept in the Family News Archive, organized by year.
    As of April 2009, I now try to update by tweeting on twitter.



    This version of Violet's Garden and its various linked pages created September 2005.
    The original 'Garden' was first planted 1999. Continuing on for your fun and enjoyment (and mine).