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, September 30, 2010

Wisdom is a choice that few are willing to choose.

Good always comes from some kind of work.

When I was young I knew it all, fortunately, I leaned enough since then not to have done it all.

Some are stopped by stop signs, some are slowed by yield signs, better is to see no signs that deter you from your goal.

Many folks are killing time not realizing that they are the real victim.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

When pressured we tend to speak confusion and avoid truth.

May your adversity cause you to overcome your failures!

Your personal expectations should be difficult for you to exceed but not impossible.

Remember that your point may not be the point.

Adversity may be there to help you break old habits and begin new ones.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Parenting is where the poorest family can leave a rich heritage.

Beauty promise more than it delivers.

Character delivers more than it promises.

Better is a happy meal with your grandkids than full meal alone.

Whatever you have given will be yours to feast on later!

Monday, September 27, 2010

Grandparents are less able but more willing!

When you become a grandparent you realize that your work is not yet done.

Avoid the negative especially within yourself.

The more positive you are about yourself the less negative you are with others.

Few good things come from bad thoughts.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

In business, your customers become your partners or your competition's friends.

May you wedding cake be the beginning of the sweetest life!

The taste of sweat is bitter but the results are sweet.

Love sweetens your point.

Being kind saves you so much trouble.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

When you cease to be thankful your life enters darkness.

To have lived you must cast sunshine on someone else life.

You will never have enough to enjoy life until you learn to enjoy what you have.

Compassion is the soil where you grow your soul.


If you are dead you no longer have a responsibility to live!

Monday, September 20, 2010

Families are important because, with them, you matter.

You are destined for, whatever you have worked at the hardest.

If you look too far ahead, you could stumble over something you should be doing now.

Good habits are a result of good purposes.

Never regret not doing evil.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Far too many Christian pledge allegiance and then do as they please!

Whatever I struggled with yesterday I stand a much better chance of doing today.

A smile is an ice breaker even in the summertime.

Whatever is a matter is not the problem, it is what you think is a matter that is a matter!

The friends you choose will determine your life.

Saturday, September 18, 2010

The longer I am married the more I admire the one I love.

A good friend is never forgotten.

Success if based on purposeful preparation.

It is better to be a uneducated, than to be the learned who will not do.

The secrete of life, is learning to give it away.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Your greatest kindness will be you next one.

A pessimist looks at what is not working, an optimist looks for what need to be done.

Never pass up an opportunity to celebrate a good deed.

Spring is the mouthwash for winter.

You are only as rich as the number of your friends.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Love is unimaginablely impossible, utterly unstoppable, and uncannily fulfilling, all at the same time.

In youth, you admire accomplishment, in old age you admire kindness.

Live, in the direct line of fire, of your dreams.

What will you harvest at the end of this day?

A successful day is one in which you have encouraged another.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

If you really want the last word try apologizing!

Never apologize for truth, only for the manner you may have applied it.

Friendship rises on the lips of a smile.

First, peace comes from your house, to your doorstep.

When you start loving someone you stop saving up love.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

A successful adult is one who lived a little older when they were younger and lived a little younger when they are older.

Don’t retire from something but retire to something.

Retirement is a gift open it with great anticipation.

Whatever you take for granted soon losses its value.

Few children know the difference between bribe and appreciation.

Monday, September 13, 2010

If you do not ask questions you are multiplying your ignorance.

You never know if someone is dumber than look until they open their mouth.

Children are gifts from heaven that parents tend to mess up.

Paying attention is one of the costs of learning.

Children tend to do what you are doing and ignore what you saying.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Discipline is dedication to what you want.

Is there life after death? Everyone will get the answer.

Even good changes have unexpected consequences.

When you get better it could cause others to feel worse.

If you are unchanged chances are you have stopped growing.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

What shall I swap this day for that is worth part of my life?

Profound truths tend to be ignored but their consequences cannot be.

A touch of genius usually comes with a pound of sweat.

When you know what you want to do it is easier to learn how to do it.

Walk gently in the minds of those you love.

Friday, September 10, 2010

If God has no place in your mind, evil feels no resistance.

Goodness and mercy are not natural to man.

Truth hinders evil but God destroys it.

Is Jesus an acquaintance or a friend?

Feather your nest with Grace; it is free and lasting.

Thursday, September 09, 2010

Your inward journey is the journey.

Fixing your faults is your best example.

If you do not know God you can never know yourself!

My mind is the playing field of my life.

All goodness, as all evil, is first considered in your mind!

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

If you are just, fear is unnecessary.

Every saint has his headaches.

Worry age’s man far faster than work.

Tomorrow can never rest on the laurels of yesterday.

Be of good cheer it aggravates the miserable.

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

A poisoned tongue is often fueled by prejudice.

The butter of love is not bitter.

Most folks only listen for the opportunity to speak.

The heaver the thoughts the simpler the sentences!

We often learn more from toil than from thought.

Monday, September 06, 2010

Far too few do more than they should and far too many do less than expected.

A yardstick can never measure kindness.

To say what you should, sometimes you shouldn’t.

Most criticism is the stoning of intentions.

There is more rush to tongue, than rush to judgment!

Sunday, September 05, 2010

Too easily forgotten are the wonders of imagination.

Reading will stir what television has put to sleep.

I-phone, next I-pod, and then I-pad, which caused I-fog!

How often do I fear failure more that I crave success?

Music soothes misery like love will sorry.

Saturday, September 04, 2010

Good is more than the absence of evil.

If you have wisdom beyond your years, is fascinating; to love beyond your ability is enthralling.

Too much safety, limits your accomplishments.

Thinking is more risky that listening.

Mediocrity is a lazy man's trophy.

Friday, September 03, 2010

The excellence of doing nothing is worthless.

Wisdom never scolds truth.

Wisdom is no chance discovery.

Work with knowledge, distil experiences, and perhaps wisdom will blossom.

A person, who understands themselves the most, forgives the most.

Thursday, September 02, 2010

Excellence is a product of effort.

Peer over the hedge of possibilities to find the answers to the impossibilities!

If were that easy someone else has already done it!

Gratitude is more difficult than performing the kindness.

Knowledge and willingness are most difficult to merge.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Focus is one of the fruits of discipline.

Learning to run is easier, than learning to keep on running.

Craft hope and saturate it with understanding.

Gardening is an exercise in sweaty expectation.

Knowing what you want to do is inspiration, doing it is invention.