Peace Optimists Gifts

"Call it wishful thinking, but I don't think this peace will last. . . ."

"Too crowded. Let's go."

'Chocolate milk, carrot cake,candied yams...see, there's a solution to everything!'

'Oh for heaven's sake, you're a cow. Just eat grass and be happy.'

"I feel like that I've been given a unique oppurtunity to speak out on issues."

Six Thinking Hats

Protest

"I think I can". (train)

"Using worst case scenario as a baseline, I consider this data quite encouraging."

'Actually, my mom was the first to notice he'd lost that new boyfriend smell!'

"Don't you worry about me. I always land on my feet."

'We had no contingency plan for things going right.'

'The good news is that from now on I belong to a very rare species. There aren't many personnel managers who create their own pink slip.'

Arms race - USA and Russia.

'Oh good! - I hate long lines!'

Neutral Man.

"I just think things will work out for the best, and by the best I mean me."

'Look at it this way ... one bad job can can give you all the experience you'll ever need.'

Pollyanna, the Hamster

Try not to worry.

"Today stocks rose on the news that 'down' is a temporary state of mind."

Doug reasoned that things could be worse...but just how much worse...he wasn't sure??

"Oh, don't mind us... We just want to make sure it's really dead."

Mahmoud Abbas

Flower growing from a bomb.

"So what is worse than us being trashed after the shootings in the Charleston AME church?! I mean...it's the only thing on the news."

Man replaces tank sign with deer sign

"His face may be in the gutter, but his bum's looking up at the stars."

"I've tried to keep one in the past, but it always flew away when my husband came home. So I thought I'd try this method!"

Iraqi Insurgents.

"Look on the bright side, you never know what's round the corner."

Ahhh, spring baseball.