Thought for the Day Fourth Edition

I'm glad DP had an answer for you JD, and I'm even happier that Turkey turned out so nice for you.
Good tie in GardenSox, C.S. Lewis, always makes me think.
WIB,
SW

GardenSox, I love the C.S. Lewis quote.

Weekend's almost here!!! Happy Thursday.

Thursday Thought for the Day:

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. (anonymous)

He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs. Torvald Gahlin

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

Haiku

The Flower grows,
But no one knows,
It's Beauty!

WIB,
SW

Beautiful Jules!!

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.

Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." Albert Einstein

YIPPEE!!! Weekend's here!!!!

Saturday Thought for the Day:

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.

That is funny. I was dressed in pj's covered by a mu mu over my pj's, hair a mess. Get the picture. I am running out to get the paper and get back in the house before anyone can see how terrible I can look. DesertPirate, your quote made me think of that. So it was not a mistakes going outside looking like that because no one saw me. LOL. Have a great day everyone. It is cold in Las Vegas, froze last night and the town is full of Cowboys and Cowgirls for the National Rodeo.

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
Abraham Lincoln

I love that one, JD!

Me, too !
One of my grand-nephews (???) is doing a school project on Abraham Lincoln and he had his dad email me that yesterday.

I wouldn't even try to top that one Mike. What a great way to start our "Thoughts" for Sunday.

Happy Day!!

Randy

"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde

Been a beautiful day, even if cold, windy and no sunshine.

I found this poem in the book "Avatar" by Poul Anderson, he did not say who the poet was, but I enjoyed reading it and think you will too.

God gave all men all earth to love,
But, since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove,
Beloved, over all;

I realize it is just a fragment of a longer poem, but it made me think about how much I love this place I call home.
JD, please thank Dad and grand-nephew, for the Abe Lincoln quote. Was a good 'un!
WIB!
SW

It's a Rudyard Kipling poem, one I love dearly. Sussex...

"God gave all men all earth to love,
But, since our hearts are small
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all;
That, as He watched Creation's birth,
So we, in godlike mood,
May of our love create our earth
And see that it is good.

So one shall Baltic pines content,
As one some Surrey glade,
Or one the palm-grove's droned lament
Before Levuka's Trade.
Each to his choice, and I rejoice
The lot has fallen to me
In a fair ground-in a fair ground --
Yea, Sussex by the sea!

No tender-hearted garden crowns,
No bosonied woods adorn
Our blunt, bow-headed, whale-backed Downs,
But gnarled and writhen thorn --
Bare slopes where chasing shadows skim,
And, through the gaps revealed,
Belt upon belt, the wooded, dim,
Blue goodness of the Weald.

Clean of officious fence or hedge,
Half-wild and wholly tame,
The wise turf cloaks the white cliff-edge
As when the Romans came.
What sign of those that fought and died
At shift of sword and sword?
The barrow and the camp abide,
The sunlight and the sward.

Here leaps ashore the full Sou'west
All heavy-winged with brine,
Here lies above the folded crest
The Channel's leaden line,
And here the sea-fogs lap and cling,
And here, each warning each,
The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring
Along the hidden beach.

We have no waters to delight
Our broad and brookless vales --
Only the dewpond on the height
Unfed, that never fails --
Whereby no tattered herbage tells
Which way the season flies --
Only our close-bit thyme that smells
Like dawn in Paradise.

Here through the strong and shadeless days
The tinkling silence thrills;
Or little, lost, Down churches praise
The Lord who made the hills:
But here the Old Gods guard their round,
And, in her secret heart,
The heathen kingdom Wilfrid found
Dreams, as she dwells, apart.

Though all the rest were all my share,
With equal soul I'd see
Her nine-and-thirty sisters fair,
Yet none more fair than she.
Choose ye your need from Thames to Tweed,
And I will choose instead
Such lands as lie 'twixt Rake and Rye,
Black Down and Beachy Head.

I will go out against the sun
Where the rolled scarp retires,
And the Long Man of Wilmington
Looks naked toward the shires;
And east till doubling Rother crawls
To find the fickle tide,
By dry and sea-forgotten walls,
Our ports of stranded pride.

I will go north about the shaws
And the deep ghylls that breed
Huge oaks and old, the which we hold
No more than Sussex weed;
Or south where windy Piddinghoe's
Begilded dolphin veers,
And red beside wide-banked Ouse
Lie down our Sussex steers.

So to the land our hearts we give
Til the sure magic strike,
And Memory, Use, and Love make live
Us and our fields alike --
That deeper than our speech and thought,
Beyond our reason's sway,
Clay of the pit whence we were wrought
Yearns to its fellow-clay.

God gives all men all earth to love,
But, since man's heart is smal,
Ordains for each one spot shal prove
Beloved over all.
Each to his choice, and I rejoice
The lot has fallen to me
In a fair ground-in a fair ground --
Yea, Sussex by the sea!"

And, SW, I have to read taht one. I like Poul Anderson.

Kwanjin,
Our library was giving them to the Salvation Army because no one has read them in such a long time. So I rescued them.
You can't hardly find Heinlein on the shelves any more. I have a better classic Sci-fi library that the County does. DH won't let them live in the house because they'll take over, so most are in storage in the old cabin right now. Sigh.
Except for most of Heinlein which somehow (?) ended up in my ES's room. He really does read them.
Thanks so much kwan for sharing the R. Kipling poem in it's entirety. I've been taking time to absorb it.
WIB!
SW

Hey SW, how is your weather. We have had rain all day. May get snow tonight because we are at the foot of the mountains.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Oscar Wilde

SW, it does take some thought. That's why I like it.

skwinter,

My thought for the day,
If it wasn't for the cold temps, I wouldn't appreciate the warm temps, as much.
Brrrr!

I like the rain though.
WIB!
SW

I agree with your "Thought" Jules. But it really only takes one day of being forced to work in it to last me the whole year!!

I ran across this one the other day and I believe it qualifies as a lead for today.

Tuesday Thought for the Day:

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.--Edward Abbey

DP,
Are you talking about working in the heat or the cold. I am confused? I'd rather work in the heat. The cold really hurts.

Loved Tuesdays' Thought! Is way too true. : - )

WIB!
SW

Definitely the cold Jules. I can handle the heat just fine.

It's Hump Day!!!!

Wednesday Thought for the Day:

A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
--Arthur C. Clarke

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet...they're about to announce the lottery numbers. - Homer Simpson

"If you are going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill

Ah, it's been such a busy day, that I didn't get too look at my favorite thread til now.

DP, one of my favorite quotes from Arthur C. Clarke, awesome scientist and writer. : - )
kwan, you got a warped sense of humor and I love it!
imapigeon, I hadn't heard the quote from Winston Churchill, but I'm not arguing with common sense. I liked it a lot.

Here's one for you to think on.

You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented to be penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce'

WIB!
SW

Sure happy it's Thursday.

Thursday Thought for the Day:

"It’s never the right time to have kids, but it’s always the right time for sex. God’s not stupid. He knows how it works."--My dad.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee

That's a really good one Celia.

Sure is a good one kwan.
Liked the one from your Dad too, DP.

Cat's ears are good for hearing can openers. Hearing can openers, makes critters appear as if by magic.

Where's Marie?
WIB?
SW

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
Confucius

I like all the ones I read here.

Rest easy, all.

T.G.I.F. The weekend's upon us, yippee!!!

Friday Thought for the Day:

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Boy, is that true around here. Occasionally, I have to hide the duct tape!


"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man." ≈ Samuel Houston

Scars remind us where we’ve been, they don’t have to dictate where we’re going.

An ounce of prevention, is worth a pound of cure.
Benjamin Franklin

Duct tape is wonderful, my second favorite fastener after clothes pins. It's amazing stuff.
Interesting analogy, DP! Liked the one about scars too. Aren't they like wrinkles? They prove you've lived your life.
KC, I am hoping that if I don't teach my kids anything else, there is nothing more important that honesty and integrity. Good One! : - )
WIB!
SW

Question to pose to your kids: "What do you think your mother/father and I would rather have you become - happy, successful, rich, or good?"
This comes from my favorite radio talk show host, Dennis Prager. It provokes some good conversations.

Very good conversation starter K.

It's probably a good idea to have your own answer to that before you ask it though.