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on overcoming adversity:"Hope conquers all..."

Hope

- by Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all.."

"Whatever you decide to do -
...decide to do it well."
--author: me
- to my children, and grandchildren~~~~~~~ "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." -- Chinese Proverb~~~~~~~ From "Dear Abby":

"The following little story appeared in our church bulletin last year, and I thought you might enjoy it. If you think it's worth sharing with your readers, please feel free to do so.
-- ANITA G., WICHITA, KAN"


HOW RICH ARE WE?

One day, a father and his rich family took his son on a trip to the country - with the firm purpose of showing him how poor, people can be.

They spent a day and a night at the farm of a very poor family. When they returned from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"

"Very good, Dad!"

"Did you see how poor, people can be?" the father asked.

"Yeah!"

"And what did you learn?"

The son replied: "I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden; they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden; they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard; they have a whole horizon."

When the little boy finished speaking, his father was speechless. His son added,

"Thanks, Dad, for showing me how poor we are."

~~~~~~~ Keep in mind - things could always be worse... Think about it...

Suppose, like a baseball player, all of YOUR errors were counted and published everyday...
--Anonymous

"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
-- Jaques Barzun"DADDY, WHY DOES GOD LET BAD THINGS HAPPEN AT SCHOOL..."

"BECAUSE MY CHILD, THEY NO LONGER ALLOW GOD IN SCHOOL..."
-- author unknown

Fly Away
by Thomas Locker

Fly away, fly away over the sea,
Sun-loving swallow, for summer is done.

Come again, come again, come back to me,
Bringing the summer - and bringing the sun!

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
-- Walt Whitman

"As a parent, you just hang on for the ride."
-- Robert Wagner "It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
-- Dick Cheney "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
-- Elie Wiesel "Let us not be too particular: it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
-- Mark Twain "You become courageous by doing courageous acts... Courage is a habit."
-- Mary Daly
author unknown...
There's a land where I go when I need to share
That's not on a map, yet exists everywhere.
A land of names, without faces, a curious place.
A modern creation that's called "cyber-space."
There's all sorts of people with cute little names
Like Pookie, and Sandman, and Rosebud and Flames.
Some are just snobs and some are real fun -
Some just want to find someone.
Both good and bad, they all play a role.
Each one unique, but part of a whole.
We talk and we laugh, and perhaps wonder why.
We flirt and we hug - and sometimes, we cry. We cannot be heard, we cannot be seen,
But, look - there we are, right on our screen!
All in all, I would say, the most curious part
Is the power it has to open our hearts. To share with a stranger those things we've concealed,
Which to our closest friends we would never reveal!
Our deepest regrets and most troubling fears,
The scars in our lives which bring us to tears.
What gives them the power to reach into me,
And show me the truths that I never see?
How do they manage to open my eyes
And make me confess the deceit and the lies?
I don't understand this magical spell.
But I know that without it my life would be hell.
This must have been planned by the Creator above,
'Cause there's no place on earth where you'll find as much love. When I need direction I know I can find those Angels from Heaven just waiting on line... Thank you
- to all my "cyber friends."

"A camel is just a horse - designed by a committee."
-- Anonymous "Showing up is eighty percent of life."
-- Woody Allen "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."
-- Gloria Steinem"The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like machines."
-- Sydney J. HarrisIs it Really Bad News?

"The world really isn't so much worse than it ever was. It's just that the news coverage is so much better."

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