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.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Leaning is a combination of study, failure and sweat.

Being nice is a choice as well as an obligation.

Examples are harder to forget than words.

Your influence never stops at the grave.

Try to understand failure but waist no time on evil.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Imagination creates new hope.

A smile precedes happiness.

Faith is only rational to the faithful.

Most knowledge is learned through the blisters of experience.

The people you love are your treasures in this world.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

My wife and I had a conversation she talked and I listened.

I found out that I can think as just as well as she can but it doesn’t count!

Men hear more than they listen.

Men are indeed afraid to ask direction…thank God for GPS!

Men and women’s faults and weaknesses create a need for each other.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Being gifted in any way means being obligated as well!

Effort is energy I expend for what I believe.

Honesty is not only the best policy but it is the right policy.

Inflate your vision for the success of others.

Whenever you put someone down you always end up under them.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Time is the measure of your life.

Money is the measure of your work

Love is the measure of your meaning.

Compassion is the measure of your value.

Giving is a measure of your life, time, meaning, and worth.

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The smile of a child makes up for many diapers.

A great Truth is made up of many little rights.

Dilemmas are what you have been training for.

Faith is the answer when there are no others.

Good advice often comes from bad experiences.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Is your welcome a good reason for anyone to hurry home?

Is your arrival home any reason for anyone to celebrate?

Children equal three years of little sleep.

Children like adversity make you stronger but as a reward bring you many years of joy.

Parenting usually brings greater respect for your parents
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The cost of something right is always less than the cost of something wrong.

Think beyond your feelings and plan beyond your emotions.

Lethargy is the enemy of purpose.

Love is tranquility, hate is cancer.

Marriage measures the character of both who enter therein.

Monday, June 22, 2009

The trouble with being is that everyone else is too!

Prayer is the manifestation of Faith.

Nice try usually means not enough.

The best thing in life may be free but they usually cost more.

Forgiveness is a gift not a wage.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Every blessing is reason for you to bless another.

Hasten past doubt linger around hope.

It could be today!

Success caries its own snares!

No doubt, is the best kind of doubt.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

It is not what you earned but what God gives you that counts.

As a blessing, do you work full time or part time?

God said that Prize will be a surprise!

Be provoked by your failures and saddened by others.

A good deed I can understand, but a blessing, now that is something else.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Every stone I throw at another comes back to me as a bolder.

Multiply your value, times, your valuations of others to find your worth.

He who determines the rain determines the crop.

Chew on your blessings on a bad day!

Integrity is the cement that holds your life together.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Deception caries a very high price!

Being unwilling to forgive carries the highest price.

By nature, love provides for the one loved.

One must be willing to receive love in order to give it.

Love cannot exist without a willingness to sacrifice

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Regret is the quicksand of guilt.

Letting go or letting loose require different levels of maturity.

Notice any pain caused by your conversations.

Be more thankful than belligerent.

Convictions are what you will die for preferences are want you want.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Happy is he who chooses to be!

The truth seems to require fewer words.

The actions of a man are the voices of his beliefs.

Cooperation often means trying to find someone to do it my way.

When I ask you to be broader minded I mean I want you to agree with me.

The most deceiving painting is the self-portrait.

Emptiness and solitude are unrelated.

Never and always are longer than necessary.

Learning is a mental picnic.

Giving, changes reality into possibilities.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Most depression is earned.

The interpreter bears the greater responsibility.

Climbing the walls of the impossible requires more faith than strength.

To best find your way you must know the directions.

The best Rembrandt paints on the lives of others

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Fun and happiness are the flowers of joy.

Regret is the after taste of failure.

Second thoughts, usually, should have been your first.

Measure life heaped up and overflowing.

Regret is the bitterness of unethical success.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Disappoint your enemies not your friends.

Give the biggest apple; grab the heavy end of the load.

Harvest the sick mans crops; leave the lazy man’s crops alone.

Amazement means you expected less than you received.

Thankfulness means you received more than you deserve.

Monday, June 08, 2009

Saving is adding income tax free.

You can study poverty to learn but to understand it you must come from it.

Your body can imprisoned, but not your heart.

Love does not count the disappointments but holds your hand instead.

Only togetherness can survive separations

Sunday, June 07, 2009

There is no need to add sorrow to your life by worrying.

Old age begins when you refuse to forgive someone.

Misery is a plague while joy is a salve.

Depression makes it easier to abandon your beliefs.

Marriage is a gift of life long changes.

Saturday, June 06, 2009

The government tends to more expensive than practical.

Whatever percent the cost of new laws, Congress should take out of their pockets first.

War is enviable and peace unlikely.

Only fools pacify terrorist.

You cannot force other to believe your way, the best you can do is make your way believable.

Friday, June 05, 2009

If you are next in line you are still in line.

Waiting is patience personified.

If the buyer gets the best deal the seller can’t.

Honor grows with the passage of life.

Effort is no substitute for truth.

Thursday, June 04, 2009

What is the price of a gift of kindness?

Acknowledge your fears but do not canonize them.

Be aware of your weaknesses in order to change them not to for you to excuse yourself.

Run a red light not just at your own risk but is a risk you impart to others.

Your children are sent the bill for your sins or the abundance for your blessings.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Withstanding your weakness builds stamina.

Cloning others ideas may be profitable but exploring your own may be most beneficial.

Worry is a virus to expectations.

Worry changes no outcome nor hastens any beginning.

Being loved makes you a star on life’s the most important stage.

Your choices determine your life.

Your choices will change your life.

Your choices will change the lives of others.

Your choices always affect others.

Your choices should be a combination of experience, wisdom, planning and
purpose.

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

May integrity rule your nights!

Faith is well placed confidence.

Every accomplishment is a shared one.

Give credit, like you hope others will credit you.

Plan to escape mediocrity.

Monday, June 01, 2009

A couch potato soon rolls over into the grave.

It is impossible to forgive and forget but it is possible to forgive and love.

It is always important to remember where you came from but more important to know where you are going.

Opportunity tests your perseverance.

It is easier to follow your convictions during the daylight.