A Smoky Mountain HI

Here is a journey I make each day. Time flows on this side of eternity. I have aged as gracefully as reasonable as can be be expected, and yet feel not a day older in my mind. As I begin a life in the Smoky Mountains I hope you will share my journey as well. www.kleincabin.com

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Location: Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

Retired summer 2010. I am married (wife, Carol, 55 years) with two married children and four grandchildren...one Toy Poodle. Presently live in Tennessee or Florida but spending summers in our cabin in the East Tennessee Smoky Mountains near Gatlinburg. Five + acres, three streams, and two ponds. Taught college 13 years Florida, Alaska and Tennessee, wife also a teacher. She teaches computer, ABE, GED etcetera. I was the evening supervisor of an adult education school of about 900 students. Minister of counseling at New Hope Fellowship Church of the Nazarene.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

The best way to add value to your life is to add value to the life of someone else.

Fix yourself before you try to fix others.

Brave are those who do what they must, to do what they can.

Laugh at their jokes and they will laugh at yours.

Convictions warm the soul in the cold of despair.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Someone can be wrong about one thing and still be right about another.

As a Christian you are free to accept someone who feels differently than they do.

Christians are free not to judge one another.

What the Bible says is true what you and I say are opinions.

Transfer the rights you think you have to the One who is always right.

Friday, August 29, 2008

The best of the future requires the best from you.

To be discouraged you have to temporarily dismiss the blessing you have been given.

Hope is for the discouraged; expectation is reserved for the faithful.

Never think that you are alone only those who choose to be must be.

Division is the downfall of multiplication.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Like what you can about others.

If everyone agreed with you, you would be unnecessary.

Apply yourself like you think others should.

Think twice before you act and thrice before you speak.

It is fun to be faithful.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Politics requires the impeachment of reason.

Too often we must choose between the less mean and the most meanest.

Few people could be as good or bad as the opposite party proclaims.

Tell me what you are going to do not what the other candidate is going to do!

Has bearing false witness been suspended for political parties?

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

An exaggeration is the beginning of a lie.

Most folks are honest when it is convenient.

Conventional wisdom is more geographical than practical.

How many times of forgiveness have you required? Give the same to others.

You can be right and polite!

Monday, August 25, 2008

An exaggeration is the beginning of a lie.

Most folks are honest when it is convenient.

Conventional wisdom is more geographical than practical.

How many times of forgiveness have you required? Give the same to others.

You can be right and polite!

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Integrity is a combination of commitment, honesty and is expressed by action.

Keep you mind free of worry as worry is the plague of happiness.

Do a kindness for someone who can never return the favor.

The heart of the matter is the matter.

Notice the kindness of a stranger.

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Cry by yourself and laugh with others.

Today is the only time you have to make a difference.

Weave into your painful memories the joy of living.

Poverty is not the lack of money but the lack of friends.

Life is a gift but it still must be opened.

Friday, August 22, 2008

Your feelings may not be their feelings.

Expect disappointments but do not cherish them.

Your friends have special keys to special doors of your life.

Not every friend has the same keys.

The more friends you have the more doors are opened up.

Find the time to savor both your friends and your solitude.

Look for inspiration in the lives around you.

Capture the unspoken word before you feel the pain of retrieving it.

The friends of your friends are your friends.

May your life exceed your expectations!

Thursday, August 21, 2008

For love, men and women change their lives for the good of another.

More than a little is still a lot.

Satisfaction is a choice.

Never let another rob your peace for more than a more than the moment.

Criticism tends to bring knowledge or bitterness.

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Never underestimate the power of hatred, nor the feeling of being freed from it.

Fear is the terrorist of reason.

It is impossible to live without hope.

The thrill of doing wrong never exceed its cost.

Learn to live inside out.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Friends notice the successes of others more than their failures.

No one likes to be tested but everyone will be.

Plant more trees than you cut!

Giving is a Christian sport.

Forgiveness is the WD-40 for both the forgiver and the forgiven.

With God, you are always given more than you could have taken.

If you ignore the lonesome you will become one.

Your face is the answering machine of conversation.

There are two decisions you have little control over, birth and death.

Knock on the door of hope with expectations.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Reactions are usually the results of inner-hurts or inner-healing.

Pain sets its own agenda.

Laughter brings a smile in every language.

One need not understand to forgive.

Your attitude sets the tone of your life.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Pressure raises tires, expectation, and poor health.

Never forget the wonder of beginning.

A nature trail in the mountains or a bike path in the city ..let me think!

The obvious is so only to those who think the same.

Cool is the mind and cold is the heart that lacks compassion.

Thursday, August 14, 2008

The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life.

If you put garbage in you get garbage out; if you put good in you get good out.

Time is both your enemy and your friend.

Fences can make bad neighbors, good neighbors or visa-versa.

If the price of gas represents the “trickle down economy” it has failed.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Discretion is wisdom in practice.

Arguing weakens listening skills.

The best way to be right is to do right.

Forgiveness is heart healthy.

Imagination is pre-creativity.

There is never more reward than punishment for doing wrong.

Bad never contains more fun than cost.

When you chose to do right you confuse evil.

Good decisions come from understanding the bad decisions you have made.

Hope cleanses despair.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The closer you are to right the further you are from wrong.

Decisions are made on experience, some good some bad.

Think about the way your children will perceive you decision.

Decisions should be always made in the right direction.

Hope is the beginning of destiny.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Learning to say yes is often more difficult than learning to say no.

A yes to God leads to true freedom.

A no to Satan moves you in the right direction.

Your importance and your value are not the same thing.

Good deeds attract happiness.

Be thankful for your problems if it were not for them someone of lesser ability would have your job. Linda Montessi