In the last day or so, local artist Maureen Carlson, other members of the Jordan Area Chamber of Commerce, and I have been exchanging e-mails about this summer's Jordan Art Festival.
This blog is not about the festival, but about the e-mails from Carlson. I took note of what I call a tagline -- it tells you who the e-mailer is, their contact information, and sometimes includes a quote or some other kind of words by which to live.
Carlson's tagline says, after her contact information: "It simply wouldn't be an adventure worth having if there weren't any dragons."
It said the quote was from the book "Simple Abundance." Curious about the quote, with which I wholeheartedly agree, I conducted a quick online searched for the book. It's author, Sarah Ban Breathnach, has a Web site for women in which some of you might be interested: http://www.simpleabundance.com/.
What quotes do you send out with your e-mails?


I’ve never been much for a...
Back to page topI’ve never been much for a quote on the end of my e-mail. I know a bunch of people who do them, but I could never really find one that I liked enough to apply it to all my correspondences. One of my favorite quotes, though, has to be from Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle” – “Some people got free furniture, and some people got bubonic plague.”
The lesson of the cliche “you win some, you lose some,” has never been better stated. But is that really the message I want to send on all my e-mails? Probably not.
I love the dragon quote, though, and it’s so very true.