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, August 31, 2010

Question your motives before accepting another’s advice.

Parking under a tree means more shade and more washing.

Bind your tongue and tether your heart.

Will your explanation defy understanding?

Resist the temptation to do what you want at the expense of doing what you should.

Monday, August 30, 2010

To be self-centered means you have missed the mark.

If Jesus had been self-centered He would have never gone to the Cross.

Too much advice weakens your resolve.

Digest advice like any other meal, part will strengthen you, most will be waste.

Advice is easier to manufacture than to distribute.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

There is sanity in security and safety in insanity.

Keep no record of your kindness or of whatever you have given.

A kindness you have received cannot be forgotten.

Cling to your responsibilities they anchor you, in this self-centered world.

Few people can digest advice into wisdom.

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Truth is the window of hope.

Difficulties will build up your faith.

A cluster of hope provides a village of possibilities.

Management builds the roads to the goals.

Leadership paves your goal roads with expectations.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The overflow of your life should water some dry and thirsty lives around you.

It is better to be a broken vessel than to be a useless one.

Contrary winds should not make you contrary!

Success is more about direction than accomplishment.

Inspiration provides its own energy.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Live life or it becomes a parasite.

Living is much more than surviving.

Teach others to live and all will be thankful.

Living by Faith contains a natural multiplying factor.

Making a living, providing a living, and living are all uniquely different.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Kindness leaves no scars.

Mercy cannot be earned.

Evil can never be justified.

Truth needs no justification.

Love delights to forgive.

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Joy occurs because happiness feels at home.

More fun comes from happiness, than happiness from fun.

Groom your mind as well as your body.

The Christian is doomed to happiness.

Happiness is a rope, while fun is made up of strings.

Friday, August 20, 2010

The hardest decisions are the ones you don’t want to make.

Principles should always guide you hardest decisions.

Making a decision against your principles is a character flaw.

Love is a decision, surrounded by commitment, electrically charged, that warms your heart.

Do you smile over an inner frown or frown over an inner smile?

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Leadership is teaching other to love your goals.

When others love your goals they will sacrifice to reaching them.

When people love your goals and reach them, mutual admiration occurs.

If you can inspire other to dream you have become a leader!

Fame spoils more personalities than it enhances.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

You will move much faster pushing yourselves than pushing others.

If you move further ahead, those who share your vision will move up closer.

The art of leadership is to be ahead of where others want to go.

The art of management is to help people see how they can get where they are being led.

Leadership is vision, management is organization.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Emotion gathers people who are easily scattered but commitment keeps them on task.

A leader focuses the emotional and the committed on the goal.

People are lead because they believe more than they can understand.

Better to push to the front of the line than to be dragged behind it.

A mixture of fear and praise live, in a leader’s day.

Monday, August 16, 2010

Tooth or teeth see the dentist before one becomes two.

Be careful in the little things and the big things will take care of themselves.


Stress is the space between what you are doing, what you want to be doing, and what others expect you to be doing.

Health is the calm between two illnesses.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away and the farmer fitter.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Buring your disappointments will allow you to raise your hopes.

A good sign and a bad sign may contain the same words but different thoughts.

Bring more to the table than you plan to take away.

Hard work brings more success than good luck.

Progress without compassion, fathers misery.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Evil rejects good even as it admire it.

Never is never far enough and always is never close enough.

Opposites may attract one another but they still may cause sparks.

Tomorrow is out of reach, and yesterday is out of touch, now is what fits.



Disappointments will follow you, day after day, if you allow them.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Necessities create possibilities.

Be sure your bargain does not cost someone else too much.

Talk may be cheap but it can also be expensive.

You are more likely to win if you show up.

Lifting the load of a neighbor is not soon forgotten.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Live in God’s hand it is big enough for whatever you are doing.

Whatever He is up to you should be up to!

A walk in the woods should be a wakeup call for the eternity bound.

Just gazing into the night sky should let you know there more to life than this journey.

Life, stay as long as you can and go as fast as you can!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

A short leash is better for the long haul.

Make your comfort zone comfortable for others.

A well traveled road usually leads you to where someone else wanted you to go.

More people live on the side roads of your life than on the freeways.

Perseverance always surpasses mediocrity.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

You can finish a good days work but a good life’s work is never comes to an end.

The least good you can do is better than the best worse.

Friends cast a rope of hope into your pit of depression.

Friends judge less and accept more but still tell you the truth.

When you have done enough you will see Heaven's Gates opening for you.

Monday, August 09, 2010

A friend feeds the good in you and starves the bad.

A friend is a party of two.

Friendship is a treasure that is constantly getting richer.

A friend can sing you a song your heart has forgotten.

Friendship cannot be measured, numbered, or calculated, only relished.

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Hope brings more blessings than fear.

The loss of hope brings true poverty.

Friends pick you up when you are broken down.

A friend is a comfort, be he near or not.

Love is when you know each other enough and still choose to be friends.

Saturday, August 07, 2010

May your life excite honesty!

Hope always cast a shadow on despair.

Hope never leaves until you abandon it.

Hope is knowing that God makes sense.

Depression is homeless until you give it a room.

Friday, August 06, 2010

Make life end you not visa-versa.

Never speculate about what you should know!

What is, a drop in the bucket, for you may fill someone else’s!

Too little to late, may accomplish more than. too much too soon!

When a smile is a depressing thought, stop thinking and start smiling!

Thursday, August 05, 2010

If you forget how to laugh pain will overtake you.

Some of your best work will be accomplished after you are already tired.

Failure contains fewer hazards than doing nothing.

Laughter brings hope for tomorrow while easing the pains of today.

You can love and be disappointed but without love life is always disappointing.

Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Too many Christians are planted in pots instead of in the fields.

Not many heathens need to wear shades to lessen the light of most Christians.

Potted Christians bear too little fruit.

The more you pray the brighter you shine.

The more you do the more effective your shine!

Tuesday, August 03, 2010

Good is trying in the right direction.

Good sees more hope than problems.

Good is the ladder out of failure.

Good sees as well at night as in the day.

Everything good contains God’s DNA!

Monday, August 02, 2010

God never blesses selfishness.

God never pities self-pity.

God never helps the lazy.

God never blesses evil.

God never fails the faithful!

Sunday, August 01, 2010

In business or in life never get in bed with a porcupine.

Know your friends and pray for your enemies.

More people are misunderstood by themselves that by others.

When you are headed for trouble listen to a brother!

Understanding is less important when a train is about to run over you.