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.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Providing for those you love brings immense satisfaction.

Providing only for oneself creates a huge hunger.

Acceptance is a matter of mind over prejudice.

Hope prospers in the mine field of understanding.

Your last hope comes with your last breath.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Love teaches you more than hate wants to learn.

Living and thinking can lead you to different conclusions.

Most of our troubles are of our own making.

A friend provides you a shelter to heal
your wounds.

Thankfulness is more of an activity than a concept.

Monday, December 28, 2009

A teacher stores his thoughts in the minds of others.

Teaching adds meaning to facts.

Teaching is passion learning is possibility.

Overestimate the abilities of others, underestimate you own.

It is much better to be found smarter than you were thought to be
.

Friday, December 25, 2009

Better to celebrate little things often, than a few things occasionally.

Growth is a balance of success and failure multiplied by effort.

Quitting is the ultimate cancer to living.

Boredom; is knowing too much about too little.

Nourish your mind to nourish your mind.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Progress is not always a step forward, sometimes, it simply understands a piece of the past.

Your feelings are attached to your thinking.

Measuring up often creates shortcomings.

The longer the thought the shorts the sentence becomes.

Indulgence is a weakness of the weary.

Monday, December 21, 2009

The hunger of a soul is not for religion but for a relationship with God.

Every blessing exceeds our ability to comprehend it.

One does not need to comprehend in order to be exceedingly thankful.

Love is absolutely necessary to experience happiness.

A claim of an addiction is never a valid excuse to continue in sin.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Retirement means you don’t have to leave the house to go to work!

Work occupies more time that effort.

A full time marriage prospers when full time workers work.

A successful marriage is work surrounded by love.

Selfish people seldom change for the good of another.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Insight is a process of understanding the complexity of simplicity.

With a new beginning you always get to start in first place.

Intelligence is a collection of other people’s knowledge.

Genius is stumbling into a new idea after great effort.

Endurance is running further than you wanted.

It is better to have the Spirit of Christmas than all of the present of others.

Christmas is the beginning; Easter is the completion, of God’s love letter.

The true value of a gift resides in the heart of the giver.

The Giver of Christmas is the meaning of Christmas.

Jesus gave loaves and fishes, and eternal life; top that!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Christmas is really not about what you get, but it is about what God gave.

Hope is the real gift of Christmas.

Christmas is when people tend to measure their worth by what they give or receive instead of who they are.

Spending is not really giving.

Sharing cannot be bought in a store.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Christmas is a friend of a lonely heart.

Love is the four letter word for Christmas.

Jesus arrival means or survival!

No one can repay a Christmas gift.

Christmas is about a spiritual journey.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Each year I live adds a new and more blessed meaning to Christmas.

Christmas is the morning that everyone wakes as a child.

Christmas makes aging tolerable.

The glow in a child’s eye is Christmas enough.

Christmas is the one time of the year when you get more than you are worth.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

You cannot sing enough or praise enough to really comprehend the meaning of Christmas.

Christmas is the reward of Faith.

When it is all said and done even the Grinch smiles as Christmas comes.


It is not the cooking but the caring that is the reward of Christmas.

Christmas is about a martyr’s birth that shows your worth.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

The Christmas experience is more filling than the Christmas meal.

If it were not for the Savior, Christmas would just be another birthday.

Christmas cheer does not come from a bottle, but from a manger.

Christmas is about as close to peace on earth as we will know.

Even an unfulfilled Christmas is most filling.

Friday, December 11, 2009

A Merry Christmas satisfies all year long.

Love always has more room at Christmas time.

Remember love is more valuable than gold.

It is your presence at Christmas that is more important than your presents.

Christmas is about a life that could never be held by death.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Fill your days with value rather than success.

Theories don’t change facts.

Christmas makes you want to be more at home, at home.

Christmas is more of an experience, than date on the calendar.

Happiness is the best gift you can open on Christmas day.

Wednesday, December 09, 2009

The useless make themselves of little use.

Wisdom is saying less than you think you know.

Difficulties reveal more character than it builds.

More conclusions surrendered to than arrived at.

It is much easier to advise a wise man than a stubborn one.

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Choose to be right rather than to be strong!

A soothing life is a welcome life.

Avoid doing right in the wrong way.

What is the point of life if you don’t point?

Life is a candle waiting to be lit.

Hope resides in willing vessels.

Monday, December 07, 2009

Life is not easy, giving up, is even harder.

Your attitudes towards life, often create your difficulties in life.

Don’t wait for good cards, play the cards you have for good.

Life can exist without love but living cannot.

A friend will not resent you being yourself.

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Your thoughts become your compass.

People tend to change more than they think and less than they want.

In life be careful of those headed the wrong direction, coming in your lane.

Some people just sail through life, other just drift.

Laugh with every breath and love with every heartbeat.

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Life is a mystery only solved at the end.

Become a customer of possibilities.

Life is more than you can imagine.

A follower limits his possibilities.

A believer is consumed with possibilities.

Friday, December 04, 2009

Every moment is an opportunity to do something right.

Each moment is a new chance to be happy.

Moments are the pages of time on which your life is written.

Every moment is a piece of eternity.

Moments are the memories of a lifetime.

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Do the best with what you have and you will always have the best!

When you play with fire, remember, not only you get burned.

Regrets will follow those who do as they want rather than what they ought.

A good life never ends.

Is your life creating dreams or nightmares?

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Qualifications are for a resume’ competence is for work.

When you have gone as far as you can build a bridge to where you want to be.

Life is only as short as you are short with others.

Life is complex it takes happiness to appreciate unhappiness and being loved to appreciate the unloved.

To have things turn out alright always keep right.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

It is easier to want what you have then to stress over what you cannot have.

Life is to short not to bear fruit.

True love never makes you ashamed.

Life is a collection of successfully lived moments.

Winning the lottery may take a thousand life times but winning at work only takes eight hours
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