Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
- T.S. Eliot

Steve and Minna Still the Best
A simple sparkler can reach a temperature of up to 2,000 degrees - that’s 15 times the boiling point of water. A simple word and a hug can warm the heart that gets thousand times the boiling point of water.
It would be difficult to find a lovelier friends with bubblier conversations than Chez Monaghans. Part of what makes Sydney unique is that friendship arises from this amazing melting pot and from shared universal values and beliefs. Last night we enjoyed floods of French moets and rivers of Finnish milk and Antipodean honey...floods like that turn on light bulbs (smile).
Sydney blew away any suggestion it needed the Harbour Bridge to tell the world how it felt last night, with celebrations across the city that defied being summed up in one word...
· Eternal Friendship [via Fireworks ]

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy.
I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
-Charles M. Schulz

CARPE DIEM - Seize the Moment! Celebrate Art of Friendships
No one on their death bed wishes they had spent more time at the office. The saying tugs us towards "proper" priorities, reassuring us that it is not work or worldly success but family, friends and love that really matter in the end. Few of us would disagree. Yet how many people behave as if it were true?
· Couldn't even begin to imagine linking a better story [The Age]
Bob was one of the few men that could make me cringe, get me mad, cry (with laughter) and have me laughing until it hurts. Hot, dry and sad things ...Bob Monkhouse is dead , which is a sad, if not unexpected thing. He was very good at the one line thing. He made us laugh. They say that laughter is the ...
· Monkhouse