Tommia's Tablet

“Animals don’t lie. Animals don’t criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do.” ~ Betty White

“We were American citizens. We were incarcerated by our American government in American internment camps here in the United States. The term ‘Japanese internment camp’ is both grammatically and factually incorrect.” ~ George Takei

Eighty years ago today, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. I didn’t learn about Washington State’s dark history until college, and it was thanks to a Children’s Lit class.

There’s still time to learn, to hear the stories, to take action in preventing something like this from happening again.

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”~ Ray Bradbury

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

“Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.” ~ Octavia E. Butler

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” ~Carl Sagan

“When you’ve got the right voice on a particular text, it’s just magic to listen to.” ~ Fionnuala Barrett

“A cup of tea would restore my normality.” ~Douglas Adams.

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ~ Mark Twain

“Every day is sort of a jigsaw puzzle. You have to make sure that you’re putting the most important things first.” ~ Julia Hartz