Be It Resolved: I will be patient
Drawn 12/27/2012
Be It Resolved: I Will Be Diligent
Drawn 12/28/2012
Be It Resolved: I Will Be Humble
Drawn 12/31/2012
Be It Resolved: I Will Be Charitable
Drawn 1/1/2013
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Gift Giving Note #3
To give and then not feel one has given is the very best of all ways.
Drawn 12/12/2012
Gift Giving Note #4
Giving the gift of the mutual enjoyment of time passing is timeless.
Drawn 12/13/2012
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a consiracy of love.
Drawn 12/2/2016
Jesus associated with outcasts. He spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them. Merry and Happy.
Drawn 12/20/2011
Be blessed and be a blessing. Merry Christmas!
Drawn 12/25/2011
How many observe Christ’s birthday. How few,his precepts.
Drawn 12/28/2016
Be it resolved: I will be kind.
Drawn 12/26/2012
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The Napkin’s Guide To Happy Living: Transform your obligations into your opportunities
Drawn 12/31/2013
Things to tell your kids: Make good friends and keep good friends
drawn on 12/1/2016
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
drawn on 12/6/2016
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
drawn on 12/15/2011
An ordeal is an ideal that isn’t yours.
drawn on 12/16/2011
Gift Giving Note #1: How you give is more important than what you give.
drawn on 12/10/2012
Gift Giving Note #2: A child cannot give what she does not receive.
drawn on 12/11/2012
“Worry is like a rocking chair: both give you something to do, but neither gets you anywhere.”
drawn on a napkin, 12/6/2011
“The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.”
Drawn 12/13/2011
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
Drawn 12/5/2017
“The Napkin’s Guide To Happy Living: Act and Think in Terms of Love”
drawn 12/10/2013
The Napkin’s Guide to Happy Living: Develop the Courage to Say and Do What You Love
drawn 12/11/2013
The Napkin’s Guide to Happy Living: Creat a Physical World That Makes You Smile
drawn 12/13/2013
Day 13
The Napkin’s Guide to Happy Living: Educate Yourself So You Can Explain Yourself
drawn 12/16/2013
These are napkin drawings I’ve done in December over the decades. I am posting them daily on social media but am combining them here to post weekly.
“Pain makes people think. Thought makes people wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.”
Drawn 12/11/2000
“We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.”
– La Rochefoucauld
Drawn 12/04/2001
“Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.” – Henry Miller
Drawn 12/13/2002
“Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.”
Drawn 12/8/2010
“The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.”
Drawn 12/14/2009
“Patience with others is love. Patience with self is hope. Patience with God is faith.”
Drawn 12/12/2011
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