The golden rule is of no use whatsoever
unless you realize that it is your move.
– Anonymous
Friday, 29 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Monday, 25 May 2009
Friday, 22 May 2009
Mountains
Sometimes the miracle of moving mountains
is God granting you the strength
to keep shoveling.
– Shane Littlefield
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Monday, 18 May 2009
Achieve
We overestimate
what we can achieve in a day,
but underestimate
what we can accomplish in a month.
- Suzanna Olivier
Friday, 15 May 2009
May 15, 2009 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
When we have fixed goals, we are struggling to force things to turn out a certain way. Hence we close ourselves off from seeing what is possible and what else is available to us. We can't see the bigger picture. - Baron Baptiste
It is the May Long Weekend and the unofficial start to the summer season. Summer is a time when we look forward to doing fun things and leaving our usual schedules behind.
What if we use this long weekend as a time to start opening ourselves up to living in a way that is less rigid and more fluid. What if we open ourselves up to what is happening around us and enjoying it - in all its unexpected surprises - rather than forcing our idea of what should be happening onto the events and people in our lives.
What if we live summer-like all year?
Beth
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Impress
Did you ever see an unhappy horse?
Did you ever see a bird that has the blues?
One reason why birds and horses
are not unhappy
is because they are not trying to impress
other birds and horses.
- Dale Carnegie
Monday, 11 May 2009
Difficulties
There are two kinds of person in the world:
those who think first of difficulties
and those who think first of accomplishments
in spite of the difficulties.
– Samuel Warren
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Friday, 8 May 2009
Satisfaction
If you don’t get satisfaction
from doing something on a small scale,
you won’t get any more satisfaction
doing it on a global scale.
Nothing, multiplied by five billion,
is still nothing.
– Mother Teresa
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Wednesday, 6 May 2009
Idleness
We owe most of our great inventions
and most of the achievements of genius
to idleness – either enforced or voluntary.
– Agatha Christie
Monday, 4 May 2009
Friday, 1 May 2009
May 1, 2009 Chautauqua
From the Editor's Computer
I was reading a book on retirement the other day - and yes, I am allowed to read retirement books as I’ve been semi-retired my whole career!
In the book was a list of things one should do in their retirement years to be productive citizens, and not a burden on society. The list included:
· you can work
· you can play
· you can sleep
· you can improve your mind
· you can improve your health
· you can work in civic activities or educational activities
· you can work in some spiritual area
(Hammond Stith, paraphrased)
Those items are a good formula for those of us at all ages, not just for the retired.
Beth
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