"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
Frank Herbert

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
Tallulah Bankhead

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
Laurence J. Peter

Here is quote from the APeX guestbook.

"I just got home from Junior High Youth Day and APeX was there it was sooo much fun. Brad is so funny and Gene showed us how he can get out of a straight jacket he looked so funny."

The story of my life.

Autism in mysterious. We don’t know full what it is. We certainly don’t know why it happens.

According to the Autism Society of America 1 in 150 children born this year will be diagnosed (that is one every 20 second).

April is Autism Awareness Month. If you are paying attention to the news you might have seen a story or two.

I believe the untold story of Autism is that of parents of children diagnosed with Autism. 18 months ago I was completely unaware of what there lives are like. They fight a heroic battle everyday.

If you know one of these parents, please reach out to them. Give them a hand, a hug, or a prayer. You also might want to send them to this new resource.

Autism Parent Support Network

As far as I know it is the only resource on the web geared solely to helping these parents take care of themselves. [For obvious reasons I am partial to the resource.]

If you are not reading Seth Godin’s blog, you missing great wisdom:

Most people spend a lot of time to get an education.

They wait for the teacher (hopefully a great one) to give them something of value.

Many employees do the same thing at work. They wait for a boss (hopefully a great one) to give them responsibility or authority or experiences that add up to a career.

A few people, not many, but a few, take. They take the best education they can get, pushing teachers for more, finding things to do, exploring non-defined niches. They take more courses than the minimum, they invent new projects and they show up with questions.

A few people, not many, take opportunities at work. Marketers have the easiest time of this (sort of hard to commandeer the chain saw) but don’t do it nearly as often as they should.

What have you taken today?

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
W.E.B. Du Bois

"I am not in this world to live up to other people’s expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine."
Fritz Perls

This will blow your mind in regards to the power (and limits) of focus.



Seeing is not believing. We see what we believe.

[via seth]

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.
--Brother David Steindl-Rast