What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
~Pericles
Category: WIT & WISDOM
Food for thought
Foodfor Thought
Food for Thought
Advice worth reading from an old farmer
Another email gem to make you smile.
- *Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. *
- *Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.*
- *Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.*
- *A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.*
- *Words that soak into your ears are whispered…not yelled.*
- *Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.*
- *Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.*
- *Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.*
- *It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.*
- *You cannot unsay a cruel word.*
- *Every path has a few puddles.*
- *When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.*
- *The best sermons are lived, not preached.
- *Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.*
- *Don ‘t judge folks by their relatives.*
- *Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.*
- *Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.*
- *Don ‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.*
- *Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.*
- *If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.*
- *Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.*
- *The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.*
- *Always drink upstream from the herd.*
- *Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.*
- *Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.*
- *If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..*
- *Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.*
- *Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.*
- *Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.
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♥Food for Thought
How to be a gracious Witch
I needed a good laugh today and this email did it for me. I hope you enjoy it too!
Jennifer’s wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement — not even her parent’s nasty divorce.
Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father’s new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!
Jennifer asked her father’s new young wife to exchange it, but she refused. ‘Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I’m wearing it,’ she replied. Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, ‘Never mind sweetheart. I’ll get another dress. After all, it’s your special day.’
A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, ‘Aren’t you going to return the other dress? You really don’t have another occasion where you could wear it.
Her mother just smiled and replied, ‘Of course I do, dear. I’m wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding.’
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Friends ~ another email gem to be shared
I would never trade my amazing friends, my wonderful life, my loving family for less gray hair or a flatter belly. As I’ve aged, I’ve become kinder to myself, and less critical of myself.. I’ve become my own friend. I don’t chide myself for eating that extra cookie, or for not making my bed, or for buying that silly cement gecko that I didn’t need, but looks so avante garde on my patio. I am entitled to a treat, to be messy, to be extravagant. I have seen too many dear friends leave this world too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.
Whose business is it if I choose to read or play on the computer until 4 AM and sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those wonderful tunes of the 60 &70’s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love… I will. I will walk the beach in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves with abandon if I choose to, despite the pitying glances from the jet set.
They, too, will get old. I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And I eventually remember the important things.
Sure, over the years my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody’s beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength and understanding and compassion. A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being imperfect. I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don’t question myself anymore. I’ve even earned the right to be wrong.
So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever, but while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be. And I shall eat dessert every single day(if I feel like it).
MAY OUR FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART & MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE A RAINBOW OF SMILES ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART FOREVER AND EVER! FRIENDS FOREVER!
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Life is too short and time is way too precious these days…
This email came across my desk today and it reminded me that life really is too short, especially these days when there are so many stimuli and things to do in our lives~ things that our ancestors never had to contend with. I just wanted to tell you, all my friends and family how much I appreciate you.
Life is too short to wake up with regrets.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.
Love the people who treat you right.
Forget about the ones who don’t.
Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said life would be easy.
They just promised it would be worth it.
Friends are like balloons.
Once you let them go, you can’t get them back.
So I’m gonna tie you to my heart so I never lose you.
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♥More food for thought…
Adorable
This is another of those cute little anecdotes that came across my email and just begged for me to share it.
A little boy was waiting for his mother to come out of the grocery store. As he waited, he was approached by a man who asked, “Son, can you tell me where the Post Office is?”
The little boy replied, “Sure! Just go straight down this street a coupla blocks and turn to your right.”
The man thanked the boy kindly and said, “I’m the new pastor in town. I’d like for you to come to church on Sunday. I’ll show you how to get to Heaven.”
The little boy replied with a chuckle. “Awww, come on… you don’t even know the way to the Post Office.”
The little boy replied, “Sure! Just go straight down this street a coupla blocks and turn to your right.”
The man thanked the boy kindly and said, “I’m the new pastor in town. I’d like for you to come to church on Sunday. I’ll show you how to get to Heaven.”
The little boy replied with a chuckle. “Awww, come on… you don’t even know the way to the Post Office.”
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Laugh for the day…
Here’s another email that crossed my desk. Now I have no idea whether this is true or not, but it really made me laugh…
Outside England ‘s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for busses (about $7). Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day of work, he just didn’t show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.
The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo’s own responsibility. The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee. The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payrole.
Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario), is a man who’d apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day — for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars! …And no one even knows his name.
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