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As we've traveled to different places, we've often dreamed of creating a unique business that builds upon the bookstore/café model by incorporating diverse elements for all ages: a greater range of dining experiences, indoor & outdoor theaters, educational opportunities, health and fitness practices, environmentally friendly products, and more.

It'll be 2019 before we can make this a reality so we're not as concerned with making realistic plans right now. Our focus now - and on this blog - is to incubate divergent and creative ideas with YOUR help.

So, we'd love for you to read a section at a time. They're organized along the right side of the screen & when selected, will appear below this introduction (you'll have to scroll down). Then let us know what you think (good or bad) through the blog comments or by emailing us at botree@gmail.com .

Thanks!
Jason & Jennifer

Thursday, February 12, 2009

People (Quotes)

Poet Mary Oliver... writing: "…What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Anthropologist Margaret Mead... writing: “Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.... saying that “Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, what are you doing for others?”

Whoever said..."What would you do if you weren't afraid?" and “Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”

Mahatma Gandhi... saying: "My life is my message."

Van Jones... saying: "I am fire, bringing water."

Chuck Palahniuk... writing in Fight Club: “The things you own end up owning you."

John Adams... saying: "I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.”

Norman Cousins... saying: “The big ideas in this world cannot survive unless they come to life in the individual citizen.”

Williamson... writing in Healing The Soul Of America: “Working for social change in solitude is a contradiction in terms.”

The anonymous Latin speaker that said “Beware the man of one book.”

Sir Francis Bacon... writing: “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

Helen Keller ... writing: "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable."

 

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