Archive for August, 2008
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I'm not so sure I'd call this a law, it is more a recipe, I think. I am not a believer in Karma, but I am a believer in doing unto others what we would have done unto us.
A LAW OF SUCCESSFUL LIVING
I am impressed by an incident that ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
This from Steve is a piece I can identify with and can endorse wholeheartedly. What else is tomorrow for?
GETTING READY FOR TOMORROW
You heard about the sign posted on a rancher's fence? On the other side of the fence resides the biggest, meanest looking bull you can imagine. The sign ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I've barely written at all this month, I know. And it isn't because I've been reading, I've not been doing that either. It is that life itself has intervened. Many things, many of those momentous, have gone on this month, I'll not be airing dirty laundry, or ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Two wonderful little essays, with a touch of my own thoughts on them. :^)
THE WAY WE SEE IT
The eye doctor instructed her patient to read a chart on the wall. He looked at it and read, "A, B, F, N, L and G."
The doctor turned the light back ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
In this piece, Steve shares a wisdom deeper even than he knows I think.
WHAT I PRAY FOR
Many years ago I found a short story about Mahatma Gandhi that I have gone back to several times. It has given me hope and courage. Even if you are not one ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
EVERYTHING COUNTS
Early 20th Century African-American poet Countee Cullen spent the summer of his eighth year in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after he arrived he noticed a little white boy staring at him. Countee smiled,
but the little boy did not smile back. Instead, he stuck out his tongue and called him a ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
Another of Steve's masterpieces, about the truth of us, our essence, and the light we all are within.
THE REAL YOU
One woman describes herself as "Five feet, three inches tall and pleasingly plump." After she had a minor accident, her mother accompanied her to the hospital emergency room. The admitting nurse ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
And I can't exactly promise that it will be better soon, or more frequent I should say. I AM still reading but that isn't the reason I've not been writing. I'm putting two or three of Steve Goodier's newsletters in here today, for a reason. Each speaks ...
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