Choice Morsels

The Mama Kat blog prompt suggestion for today is: "Share a Favorite Quote." So here's another round of my favorite quotable quotes pulled my Pinterest "attic," where I keep lots of stuff--both useful and otherwise. This quote tends to be true about me.  Sometimes I have to remind myself not to over-indulge in trivia talk, especially if I'm with a crowd I know isn't interested, but give me someone interested in Marvel movie trivia and it's game on! I love this one! Somehow modern comedy & comedy writing has arrived at believing that funniness requires being foul-mouthed and lewd. I like this one because I think the people who "don't back out" once they know you, whether you're weird or not, are the ones who really love you for who you are. And those are the ones worth having. This one makes me chuckle because it's so totally relatable. I do this all the t...

The exciting Mama Kat blog prompt for this week is:  "Share a quote from someone that has stuck with you." I can think of a number of quotes over the years that have stuck with me for one reason or another. When I joined the Air Force and went to tech school to learn how to be a medic, one of my instructors said to the class, " You're not here to be served, but to serve."  He meant our job as medics wasn't about making ourselves feel comfortable, it was about making our patients feel comfortable. He was talking about a worth ethic and it struck me as so relevant, I adopted it as own and lived by it for the next 5 years in service. Indeed, in any job since then I've used it for focus. It wasn't until I started reading the Bible a few years after tech school that I realized where that Air Force instructor drew that bit of wisdom he quoted. He got what he said from something Jesus said in Mark: " For even the Son of Man did not come to ...