"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written." By Regina Brett
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13.. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
25. Frame every so-called disaster with these words ''In five years, will this matter?".
26. Always choose life.
27. Forgive everyone everything.
28.. What other people think of you is none of your business.
29. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
30. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
31. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
32. Believe in miracles.
33. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
34. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
35. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
36. Your children get only one childhood.
37. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
38. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
39. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd
grab ours back.
40. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
41. The best is yet to come.
42. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
43. Yield.
44. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
You might be a racist . . .
Source: Patriot Humor 09/21/2009
If you think that a czar is unconstitutional
... you might be a racist!
If you are opposed to a government run health care system
... you might be a racist!
If you think that it is unAmerican to bow before the Saudi King
... you might be a racist!
If you think that the stimulus plan has been an utter failure
... you might be a racist!
If you think that this administration is driving the deficit up at alarming rates
... you might be a racist!
If you think that this is a nation based on Christian values
... you might be a racist!
If you think that communism and socialism are NOT the solution
... you might be a racist!
If you value the 1st Amendment, but think that the media is state-run
... you might be a racist!
If you are sick and tired of the race card being played
... you might be a racist!
If you are a racist according to the current liberal agenda
... you might just be an American!
If you think that a czar is unconstitutional
... you might be a racist!
If you are opposed to a government run health care system
... you might be a racist!
If you think that it is unAmerican to bow before the Saudi King
... you might be a racist!
If you think that the stimulus plan has been an utter failure
... you might be a racist!
If you think that this administration is driving the deficit up at alarming rates
... you might be a racist!
If you think that this is a nation based on Christian values
... you might be a racist!
If you think that communism and socialism are NOT the solution
... you might be a racist!
If you value the 1st Amendment, but think that the media is state-run
... you might be a racist!
If you are sick and tired of the race card being played
... you might be a racist!
If you are a racist according to the current liberal agenda
... you might just be an American!
Words to live by . . .
"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
-- Aeschylus
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
-- Fred Thompson
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-- George Burns
-- Aeschylus
"After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
-- Fred Thompson
"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
-- George Burns
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Quilting on the sidelines . . .
Another couple of weeks and I'm done with my seasonal costume business. It is very small-scale but I enjoy contriving saint costumes for children celebrating All Saints' Day. It is fun to make a basic tunic and drap for over the shoulder and imagine how each child will envision what saint he or she will say it is going to be. I also made some definite costumes like St. Joseph and his coat of many colors. I came up with a Sacred Heart costume with a white tunic, red drap over the shoulder and an appliqued Sacred Heart on the chest. No doubt about that costume. I even figured out a couple of Juan Diego costumes complete with our Lady of Guadeloupe appliqued on the tilma.
My major costume adventure was one for my nineteen year old daughter! I chose a pattern company that is kown for it's, well SIIMPLICITY - not to mention the company name, you know! This was a terror of a pattern and I spent more time reading it than it took me to finish that tome, Gone With the Wind. The outfit is comprised of a full, cream-colored skirt, matching, lacy blouse, blue overskirt, blue bodice (with boning!), a soft, plaid shawl and matching hat. She is calling it a merchant's daughter. Having put in a week and over 15 yards of fabric, I'm guessing it is a rather well off merchant's daughter!
I'm anxious to get back to quilting, again. I like making my own rules and quilts don't have zippers!
My major costume adventure was one for my nineteen year old daughter! I chose a pattern company that is kown for it's, well SIIMPLICITY - not to mention the company name, you know! This was a terror of a pattern and I spent more time reading it than it took me to finish that tome, Gone With the Wind. The outfit is comprised of a full, cream-colored skirt, matching, lacy blouse, blue overskirt, blue bodice (with boning!), a soft, plaid shawl and matching hat. She is calling it a merchant's daughter. Having put in a week and over 15 yards of fabric, I'm guessing it is a rather well off merchant's daughter!
I'm anxious to get back to quilting, again. I like making my own rules and quilts don't have zippers!
Obeying Commandments AND the law . . .
One of my children lives away from home in an apartment complex right by a very busy street. In order to get to many of the grocery stores, the students need to get across this street. Many of the student take the easy way and jay walk rather than walk down half a block and go with the lights and the crosswalk. My daughter gets teased but she always goes the 'legal' way across the street. I encourage her in this approach. It's called obedience. Obedience isn't only to God and parents but to laws that are put into place for our welfare.
This really hit home, last week, when two eight year old girls in our city darted across the street to their school. They weren't in the crosswalk and a car couldn't stop in time. One of the girls died the next day. Why didn't their parents teach them right and wrong? The police came down hard on this situation and I heard they handed out over 40 jay walking tickets in that very, same area after the accident. The police also targeted other schools in regards to jay walking and handed out many tickets to the tune of a $40 fine for each one. The recipients of the $40 fine got off cheaply. They made it across the street and lived to be cited.
This really hit home, last week, when two eight year old girls in our city darted across the street to their school. They weren't in the crosswalk and a car couldn't stop in time. One of the girls died the next day. Why didn't their parents teach them right and wrong? The police came down hard on this situation and I heard they handed out over 40 jay walking tickets in that very, same area after the accident. The police also targeted other schools in regards to jay walking and handed out many tickets to the tune of a $40 fine for each one. The recipients of the $40 fine got off cheaply. They made it across the street and lived to be cited.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Smiles in spite of the state of the world . . .
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."
-- Richard Bach
"No human thing is of serious importance."
-- Plato
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
-- Richard Bach
"No human thing is of serious importance."
-- Plato
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Friday, September 11, 2009
Is it fair . . . ?
I'm amazed at the people who are blaming the banks for their financial distress these days. When it comes down to it, many of them refinanced to pay for trips, house projects, education . . . Now, they are complaining about the interest rates they should have noted when they signed the papers and are objecting to the larger than normal mortgage they are carrying. I hear some of them bragging at how they got the bank to reduce their principal balance and I have to wonder at their thinking. Did they or did they not benefit from the money they borrowed against their home? Isn't it stealing, in a way, to demand various reductions because you bit off more than you can chew? I guess I'm of an ultra-conservative nature when it comes to finances. I grew up poor and learned early that you can't always have everything.
I'm also amazed at the line up of credit cards I see displayed at the check out counters! A priest told me once that if you use the card and know you can't pay it back in a timely manner, you are essentially stealing and definitely living beyond your means. Yes, we have had to carry a balance on occasion when we've had an emergency but once it got beyond our ability to pay it off the next month, the card was not used.
Everyone seems to want it all NOW these days and put off facing up to the costs until later. It kind of illustrates why out country is in such a mess today. The government uses our tax money in the same way.
In these difficult times, it seems to me that our number one priority would be to drastically reduce our debts. Being Catholic and conservative and home schooling, you can bet that if push comes to shove, we could be harrassed in some way by government offices. Keeping our debts within bounds, we stand a better chance of keeping our homes and lives in order if jobs are lost, reduced, and even harder times hit.
Just watching the news makes you feel vulnerable to the powers that be in our government who are governing us as THEY see fit not the way we want to live. Got to stay one step away from the bad guys, that's for sure.
I'm also amazed at the line up of credit cards I see displayed at the check out counters! A priest told me once that if you use the card and know you can't pay it back in a timely manner, you are essentially stealing and definitely living beyond your means. Yes, we have had to carry a balance on occasion when we've had an emergency but once it got beyond our ability to pay it off the next month, the card was not used.
Everyone seems to want it all NOW these days and put off facing up to the costs until later. It kind of illustrates why out country is in such a mess today. The government uses our tax money in the same way.
In these difficult times, it seems to me that our number one priority would be to drastically reduce our debts. Being Catholic and conservative and home schooling, you can bet that if push comes to shove, we could be harrassed in some way by government offices. Keeping our debts within bounds, we stand a better chance of keeping our homes and lives in order if jobs are lost, reduced, and even harder times hit.
Just watching the news makes you feel vulnerable to the powers that be in our government who are governing us as THEY see fit not the way we want to live. Got to stay one step away from the bad guys, that's for sure.
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