"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of
freedom.

What one person receives without working for,
Another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not
first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work
because the other half is going to take care of them,
And when the other half of the people get the idea that it does no good to
work because somebody else is going to get what they work for,
That, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.

You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 to 2005 ~~~

Trying out new applet.

ETA: Chibipaint rocks!

The view from my backyard as I was leaving for work one morning.

landscape

http://cc002.k12.sd.us/soaring%20eagle.jpg

The Dalliance of The Eagles
Walt Whitman

Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest)
Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles,
The rushing amorous contact high in space together,
The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce gyrating wheel,
Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling,
In tumbling turning clustering loops, straight downward falling,
"Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moments lull,
A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,
Upward again on slow-firm pinions slanting, their separate diverse flight,
She hers, he his, pursuing.