Thought for the Day Fourth Edition

This thread is dedicated to sharing inspirational, humorous, thought-provoking, silly, confounding, enlightening, or just plain random thoughts between the readers. Please feel free to add yours to the mix...

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This message was edited Oct 31, 2009 6:49 AM

Happy Halloween!!! Hope you enjoy it in your favorite way.

Halloween Thought for the Day:

I think I'll share my favorite Halloween poem with you for today's thought!

It's Halloween! It's Halloween!
The moon is full and bright
And we shall see what can't be seen
On any other night.
Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls,
Grinning goblins fighting duels
Werewolves rising from their tombs,
Witches on their magic brooms
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween!

-Jack Prelutsky

That's a great one! Thanks for the new thread.

I have 2...

Hark! Hark to the wind! 'Tis the night, they say,
When all souls come back from the far away-
The dead, forgotten this many a day!
- - - Virna Sheard


What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path, amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night! With what wistful look did he eye every trembling ray of light streaming across the waste fields from some distant window! How often was he appalled by some shrub covered with snow, which, like a sheeted specter, beset his very path! How often did he shrink with curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder, lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind him! and how often was he thrown into complete dismay by some rushing blast, howling among the trees, in the idea that it was the Galloping Hessian on one of his nightly scouring!
- - - Washington Irving "The Legend of Sleep Hollow"

Those are both quite good Celia. Irving certainly puts you right there doesn't he??

Continuing with the theme of the season....with today being La Dia De Los Muertos (the day of the dead) I have a quote that seems appropriate. For those unfamiliar with it, Day of the Dead is a hispanic celebration of the lives of all past relatives. It's quite interesting.

"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." -George Bernard Shaw -

"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." -Edgar Allen Poe

On a lighter note, isn't is an wonderful clear blue sunny day, this first day of November, here in California? I love November! With it's crisp clear sunny days. I can get so much done out in the garden.

"Some say
they don't believe that angels can be seen or heard.
What a shame,
such blindness.
What a pity, such deafness.
When the Song of songs abounds
and Heaven's
flyers are all
around only thinly
disguised as birds"

(author unknown)

Love that one Kaper! I do believe angels are all around us.

Seen on a bumper sticker yesterday................................I child proofed my home, but they got in anyway.........................................Love my children (aka adults now), so very blessed they got in.
Sylvia

Good Morning all...must be Monday.

Monday Thought for the Day:

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

I give with reason. Thomas North

Good Morning all!

Tuesday Thought for the Day:

What we do for ourselves dies with us, what we do for others and the world is and remains immortal. ~~Robert Pynes.

Very good one DP, should have that one posted by my computer since I spend so much time at computer I won't forget it.

One to live by DP. Good one!
Here is another!
It's from "Fahrenheit 451", by Ray Bradbury, and I couldn't say it better.

"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, as long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn cutter might just as well not been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."

(Reading Bradbury when we were growing up, was mandatory in our family!)
WIB,
SW

What a beautiful quote, SW! I love that book, but don't recall that passage. Bradbury gets pretty deep sometimes!

Reminds me of a book I just read to the kids at the library today, called "Miss Rumphius, the Lupine Lady." You can read a little excerpt here:

http://www.mchincypress.com/LupineLady.htm

but it really isn't the same without the lovely pictures! A little girl tells her grandfather what she wants to do when she grows up, and he encourages her, but also charges her with doing something to make the world a more beautiful place, too.

Definitely a book for the gardeners among us. :)

Angie

Angie, to give credit where it is due, I had forgotten it myself until flyboyFl, brought it to my attention.
It doesn't matter what we do, garden, paint, hug a child, just that we leave our world a better place for having been in it.
My librarian is going to laugh when I ask for that book. We're good friends, so I can't wait to hear her laugh. : - )
WIB!
SW

Worry looks around you,
Sorry looks back, and
Faith looks up.

Good one, Sami!

Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

Good ones Sami and kwan!
WIB!
SW

I'm running a little late this morning. But good morning just the same.. Hump Day! Middle of the Week! Halfway to Friday! yippee!

Wednesday Thought for the Day:

The real reason that we can’t have the Ten Commandments in a courthouse is because you cannot post “Thou shalt not steal,” “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” and “Thou shalt not lie” in a building full of lawyers, judges, and politicians. It creates a hostile work environment.-George Carlin.

Wow Somehow I lost you all but I am back!!

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

I wondered where you've been Marie. Good to see you again..

If you're as happy going to work on Monday morning as you are coming home on Friday.....you have achieved success! -dp

I got lost for a little while but I found my way back!!

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

- GK Chesterton

I heard this one from my Chiropractor today. He's a Brit, and he says it's a common saying there.

"Everyone is crazy, except me and you, and you're a bit odd."

I always thought I was the odd one? Hmmm . . .
Next time you get lost Marie, LMK, and I'll link you back up. Missed your presence the last couple of days here.

Good ones DP, that one by George Carlin, is so true. I loved the second one. Too bad most of us don't enjoy our work. DH and you may be the only exceptions I know of.
Marie, I liked the one about the optimist. I'm going to take that one to heart. : - )
KC, it's true. Sad but true. (Have you ever noticed it doesn't work that way for women?)
As she giggles giddily.
WIB!
SW

Good morning all.

Thursday Thought for the Day:

Imagination is more important than knowledge.-Albert Einstein

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie

If you've never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.

Never say, "oops." Always say, "Ah, interesting."

LOL! I can use that one, Marie!

Gardens are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

LOL kwanjin, I have that as the "signature" under my name on my e-mail account! Mostly to remind ME to get off the computer and out into the garden. (wink)

Here's one I heard today:
"When the worms got onto Noah's ark, why didn't they go in the apples?"





Give up?





Because God told them to go on in pairs (pears).

I thought it was cute, but had to explain it to death to my 11 yo, so it lost the humor somewhere along the way.

"When you are honest,
friends are fewer,
but those who remain,
are bound to be truer."
Esra Mouhawk

LOL, Bookerc1. I like that one.

The poem is pretty, Ped.



My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. H. Fred Ale

Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else? Betsy Cañas Garmon

Randy where are you???
Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault

I appreciate the misunderstanding I have had with Nature over my perennial border. I think it is a flower garden; she thinks it is a meadow lacking grass, and tries to correct the error. ~Sara Stein

Wrote a nice one last night on my home computer and waited 'til today to send it. Small problem....I forgot to send it this morning. Anyway............Good Morning Everyone...Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

Monday Thought for the Day:

Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?