"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart.
Dear Lord, lest I continue in my complacent ways, help me to remember that someone died for me today. And if there be war, help me to remember to ask and to answer "am I worth dying for?" - Eleanor Roosevelt
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
"Stop the World, I want to Get Off!!!!" "you can't change the past" Que Sera, SERa..............
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]AN EXCERPT FROM A POEM THAT I WROTE ON 10/11/07
WE CAN'T CHANGE WHAT WE HAVE DONE.... BUT ONLY TAKE A LESSON FROM EACH EXPERIENCE AND MAKE THE MOST OF EACH MINUTE THAT WE HAVE LEFT AND TELL OURELVES THAT IT IS OK TO LIVE, LAUGH AND CRY..... PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE ALL WORK TOGETHER TO GIVE US WHAT WE CAN AND SHOULD EXPERIENCE AND WE NEED TO CHERISH ALL OF THE TIME THAT WE SPEND WITH OURSELVES AND OTHERS MAKING THE MOST OF THE SPECIAL MEMORIES THAT ARE OURS.. AND THE ONES THAT WE HAVE YET TO CREATE WITH THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVEN'T MET!!!!![/SIZE]
Beam me up Scotty.......there's no intelligent life down here!
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The Scots of course insist that the pipes produce music. But the point is after all not too important. For those who love them, the pipes can evoke more vividly than any other instrument, high emotion, they can inspire valor, and tell of tragic tales of battles long ago. They can call forth merriment or sentiment. It does not matter what the sound is called, those who are deaf to its merits would not understand anyway.
"He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, "He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust."" Psalm 91:1-2
"Be what you would seem to be--or, if you'd like it put more simply--Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." from "Alice in Wonderland"
You and what army? Who died and made you the boss?
A fool's got a beautiful world.
Dumb as bugs, dumb as a bucket of rocks, dumb as a box of hammers. Two sandwiches short of a picnic. Ninepence to the shilling. Not wrapped too tight. Not playing with a full deck.
If it was raining soup he'd be standing there with a fork. When his ship comes in he'll be at the airport.
About "Uff da" --
According to one edition of Red Stagland's book of Norwegian jokes, "Uff da" expresses one's feelings on dropping a sack of garbage; "fy da" or "fee da", getting one's hand in it.
The Meaning of Uff Da Adapted from a postcard from Bergquist Scandinavian Imports
UFF DA IS:
* trying to dance the polka to rock and roll music * losing your wad of gum in the chicken yard * having Swedish meat balls at a lutefisk supper * walking downtown and then wondering what you wanted * arriving late at a lutefisk supper and getting served minced ham instead * looking in the mirror and discovering you're not getting better, just older * trying to pour two buckets of manure into one bucket * having a mouse crawl up your leg when you're on a hayload * eating hot soup when you've got a runny nose * getting out of bed in the morning with a backache * getting swished in the face with a cow's wet tail * waking yourself up in church with your own snoring * forgetting your mother-in-law's first name * when two steady girl friends find out about each other * noticing non-Norwegians at a church dinner using lefse for a napkin * eating a delicious sandwich and then discovering the spread is cat food * sneezing so hard your false teeth end up in the bread plate
So, OK, I think I got it -- Uff da is Norwegian for "Oy vey"! Sorry for the digression -- this was really fun.
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