·       Quotes of the week

“A young Apollo, golden haired, stands dreaming on the verge of strife, magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.”
Mrs. Frances Macdonald Cornford

The sane man knows that he has a touch of the beast, a touch of the devil, a touch of the saint, a touch of the citizen. Nay, the really sane man knows that he has a touch of the madman. But the materialist's world is quite simple and solid, just as the madman is quite sure he is sane. G.K. Chesterton

·       Websites of the week

https://www.compassionandchoices.org

5 Compelling Reasons to Readjust Your Information Diet, and How to Do It http://comics.com/pickles/

·       The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

www.dogpeecantstopsantorum.com

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Meditation of the week

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
--Eden Phillpotts

We hear others talk about how they got out of debt. We see people who have peace and serenity in their lives, who have healthy relationships and dream jobs. We realize that being debt-free means more than not having to pay as many bills. In others, we see what we have to look forward to by changing our behaviors. We get inspired and excited to be debt-free. We start working the program diligently, expecting to see miracles in our lives any minute but nothing happens.

We stop focusing on the outcome of our new ways and stay mindful of what we've committed to - no debting one day at a time. When we do this, we give energy to everything good. If we stop focusing on it, it will flow to us.

Today I will trust that when I act in a mindful and honorable way, everything good will follow.

You are reading from the book:

Letting Go of Debt by Karen Casanova

·       Poem of the Week

Smoke Break Behind the Treatment Center

by Debra Nystrom

End of the third week: family weekend.
The smokers, most of the patients, are more

jittery than usual, more anxious just now
than other days to step out this door behind

the cafeteria, where they can look across
to the stubble field, world of chopped-off stalks

that has ripped them up, that they've needed
too much from. In fifteen minutes they'll see

the ones who've come to find out if
they are changing. Maybe half have family

visiting; fewer than that will leave in another
week without needing to come back, to stand

here in a different season and stare at the silo
you set yourself by, imagine walking through

your own cloud of smoke to clean blank sky.

·       IWANTONERIGHTNOW of the week

IWANTONERIGHTNOW or at least for my birthday, or fathers day or Christmas or something

http://www.igrillinc.com/

MAy 22, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

“Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”
Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
David Brin Quotes

“Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

·       Websites of the week

http://wildammo.com/2011/03/03/people-who-look-the-same-in-every-photo-gifs/

I am so glad this is not me!!!! http://www.overfiftyandoutofwork.com/

Repatriate old t-shirts for charity and wear them proudly! http://www.projectrepat.org/

The Book of Mormon musical- songs and click “listen for free”

·       The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

Thanks to my brother Mike for this great story:

Subject: Grandpa got audited

The IRS decides to audit Grandpa, and summons him to the IRS office.

The IRS auditor was not surprised when Grandpa showed up with his attorney.

The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying

that you win money gambling. I'm not sure the IRS finds that believable.'

I'm a great gambler, and I can prove it,' says Grandpa. 'How about a demonstration?'

The auditor thinks for a moment and said, 'Okay. Go ahead.'

Grandpa says, 'I'll bet you a thousand dollars that I can bite my own eye.'

The auditor thinks a moment and says, 'It's a bet.'

Grandpa removes his glass eye and bites it. The auditor's jaw drops.

Grandpa says, 'Now, I'll bet you two thousand dollars that I can bite my other eye.'

Now the auditor can tell Grandpa isn't blind, so he takes the bet.

Grandpa removes his dentures and bites his good eye.

The stunned auditor now realizes he has wagered and lost three grand, with Grandpa's attorney as a witness. He starts to get nervous.

'Want to go double or nothing?' Grandpa asks 'I'll bet you six thousand dollars that I can stand on one side of your desk, and pee into that wastebasket on the other side, and never get a drop anywhere in between.'

The auditor, twice burned, is cautious now, but he looks carefully and decides there's no way this old guy could possibly manage

that stunt, so he agrees again.

Grandpa stands beside the desk and unzips his pants, but although he strains mightily, he can't make the stream reach the wastebasket on the other side, so he pretty much urinates all over the auditor's desk.

The auditor leaps with joy, realizing that he has just turned a major loss into a huge win.

But Grandpa's own attorney moans and puts his head in his hands.

'Are you okay?' the auditor asks. 'Not really,' says the attorney. 'This morning, when Grandpa told me he'd been summoned for an audit, he bet me twenty-five thousand dollars that he could come in here and **** all over your desk and that you'd be happy about it!'

·       Meditation of the week

In equal relationships, people are honest and take responsibility for themselves.

They tell the truth and don't lie, make excuses, or blame others for their behavior. They can admit their mistakes and admit when they're wrong. They communicate openly, directly, and honestly. They say what they mean without being mean. Equal relationships don't contain deceit and manipulation.

Today I will make sure that I'm being honest in my life, and this includes not avoiding the truth. I will admit when I'm wrong or have made a mistake. I will not take the blame for others, but I will take responsibility for myself. Being able to be honest and accountable for myself is an essential part of an equal relationship.

You are reading from the book:

Time to Fly Free by Judith R. Smith

·       Poem of the Week

Not Forgotten

by Sheila Packa

I learned to ride
the two wheel bicycle
with my father.
He oiled the chain
clothes-pinned playing cards
to the spokes, put on the basket
to carry my lunch.
By his side, I learned balance
and took on speed
centered behind the wide
handlebars, my hands
on the white grips
my feet pedaling.
One moment he was
holding me up
and the next moment
although I didn't know it
he had let go.
When I wobbled, suddenly
afraid, he yelled keep going—
keep going!
Beneath the trees in the driveway
the distance increasing between us
I eventually rode until he was out of sight.
I counted on him.

That he could hold me was a given
that he could release me was a gift.

May 15, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

“A restaurant is a fantasy-a kind of living fantasy in which diners are the most important members of the cast.”
Warner LeRoy

“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.”
William Ernest Henley

Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Margaret Willour, one of the first female agents for New York Life, and a woman who broke new ground in a traditionally male field.

·       Websites of the week

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

Adorable Things My Puppy Has Said About The Current Revolutionary Fervor In The Middle East

The Asylum for Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason

·       The culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

Looney.Tunes.Coyote.Falls.1080p

·       Poem of the Week

Conversation’s Afterplay

by Donald Hall

                     At dinner our first night
           I looked at you, your bright green eyes,
                             In candlelight.
           We laughed and told the hundred stories,
           Kissed, and caressed, and went to bed.
           "Shh, shh," you said,
"I want to put my legs around your head."
                                              Green eyes, green eyes.

                     At dawn we sat with coffee
           And smoked another cigarette
                             As quietly
           Companionship and eros met
           In conversation's afterplay,
                            On our first day.
Late for the work you love, you drove away.
                                              Green eyes, green eyes.

·       Video of the week

I want to fly to there

Wingsuit Basejumping - The Need 4 Speed: The Art of Flight from Phoenix Fly on Vimeo.

·       Song of the Week

http://www.youtube.com/user/PomplamooseMusic

May 8, 2011

·       Quotes of the week

“The only difference between fear and adventure is how much you breathe.”
Rob Kalnitsky

“Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.”
Elizabeth II

·       Websites of the week

http://lettersillneversend.com

Right-Wing Talking Points Translated Into English

http://tattoosbyanyone.soup.io/

The Seward Haighway

·       And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor

http://goo.gl/maps/MFGY

Osama Bin Laden’s compound on google maps hours after he was killed there.

And this video of OBL watching himself on TV:

·       Meditation of the week

Today is the 400th birthday of the King James Bible. It was the third complete English translation of the Old and New Testaments commissioned by the Church of England; the first, called the Great Bible, was produced during the reign of Henry VIII, and the second version, the Bishop’s Bible, was completed in 1568. Partial translations had been made as early as the 14th century.

But the Puritans were unhappy with these versions, so King James I called a meeting, the Hampton Court Conference, in 1604. He instructed the translators to make sure the new translation more closely supported the structure and beliefs of the Church of England, which had the side benefit of limiting the Puritans’ influence.

The Old Testament was translated from the Hebrew, and the New Testament was translated from the Greek, by 47 unpaid scholars, using the Bishop’s Bible as a model. The finished product could be purchased loose-leaf for 10 shillings, or bound for 12. There were two different versions, although this was unintentional; there was a typo in Ruth 3:15, so the first edition read, “he went into the city,” while the second read “she went into the city.” The different editions are known as the “He” and “She” Bibles.

The original King James Version also included 15 books known as the Apocrypha, in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments. The Apocrypha were read as popular literature, and not part of the canon; they eventually fell out of favor with the Church of England and were dropped from the King James Bible in 1666.

·       Poem of the Week

“Poetry is a record of the life around us and in us, and you'll get a better idea from poetry what it was like to be alive in 2011 than you will from the New York Times.” —Garrison Keillor

Sonnet 91

by William Shakespeare

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force;
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill;
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humour hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest:
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:

Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take

All this away, and me most wretched make.

·       Video of the week

My Anniversary Gift to Lisa

·       Song of the Week

http://youtu.be/1iBm60uJXvs Liqour store blues Bruno Mars