Saturday, August 27, 2011
Meeting Life Challenges
Life is a constant challenge. They are a part of what we are. It is a given. We can wear them or carry them silently. Most challenges accepted take us to places that were never expected. I don't doubt for a moment the expressed joy and gratitude of this family for having accepted what was put to them. They are fortunate indeed.
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Funny a friend just gave me similar advice just the other day. Not in those exact words but the meaning was still the same.
ReplyDeleteIn the South, why is a hurricane like getting a divorce?
ReplyDeleteEither way, you know somebody's gonna end up losing a trailer.
:)
ReplyDeleteBob rules
An Idaho County, Idaho divorce is an extra-legal proceeding that saves the court and attorney's fees.
ReplyDeleteBob rules
Heh
ReplyDeletejust shot myself in the leg with my 20 guage.
Heh. owww
Bob ru..............
Why is divorce so expensive?
ReplyDeleteBecause it's worth it.
West-Running Brook
ReplyDelete‘Fred, where is north?’
‘North? North is there, my love.
The brook runs west.’
‘West-running Brook then call it.’
(West-Running Brook men call it to this day.)
‘What does it think it’s doing running west
When all the other country brooks flow east
To reach the ocean? It must be the brook
Can trust itself to go by contraries
The way I can with you — and you with me –
Because we’re — we’re — I don’t know what we are.
What are we?’
“Young or new?
“We must be something.
We’ve said we two. Let’s change that to we three.
As you and I are married to each other,
We’ll both be married to the brook. We’ll build
Our bridge across it, and the bridge shall be
Our arm thrown over it asleep beside it.
Look, look, it’s waving to us with a wave
To let us know it hears me. ”
“Why, my dear,
That wave’s been standing off this jut of shore –”
(The black stream, catching a sunken rock,
Flung backward on itself in one white wave,
And the white water rode the black forever,
Not gaining but not losing, like a bird
White feathers from the struggle of whose breast
Flecked the dark stream and flecked the darker pool
Below the point, and were at last driven wrinkled
In a white scarf against the far shore alders.)
“That wave’s been standing off this jut of shore
Ever since rivers, I was going to say,’
Were made in heaven. It wasn’t waved to us. ”
“It wasn’t, yet it was. If not to you
It was to me — in an annunciation. ”
“Oh, if you take it off to lady-land,
As’t were the country of the Amazons
We men must see you to the confines of
And leave you there, ourselves forbid to enter,-
It is your brook! I have no more to say. ”
“Yes, you have, too. Go on. You thought of something. ”
“Speaking of contraries, see how the brook
In that white wave runs counter to itself.
It is from that in water we were from
Long, long before we were from any creature.
Here we, in our impatience of the steps,
Get back to the beginning of beginnings,
The stream of everything that runs away.
Some say existence like a Pirouot
And Pirouette, forever in one place,
Stands still and dances, but it runs away,
It seriously, sadly, runs away
To fill the abyss’ void with emptiness.
It flows beside us in this water brook,
But it flows over us. It flows between us
To separate us for a panic moment.
It flows between us, over us, and with us.
And it is time, strength, tone, light, life and love-
And even substance lapsing unsubstantial;
The universal cataract of death
That spends to nothingness — and unresisted,
Save by some strange resistance in itself,
Not just a swerving, but a throwing back,
As if regret were in it and were sacred.
It has this throwing backward on itself
So that the fall of most of it is always
Raising a little, sending up a little.
Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
The brook runs down in sending up our life.
The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
And there is something sending up the sun.
It is this backward motion toward the source,
Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in,
The tribute of the current to the source.
It is from this in nature we are from.
It is most us. ”
“To-day will be the day….You said so. ”
“No, to-day will be the day
You said the brook was called West-running Brook. ”
“To-day will be the day of what we both said.”
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100 bushel straw, 10 bushel wheat, renewed loan
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With my luck, It'd be Rufus, aka Mr. Ethanol, and we'd be falling-down drunk most of the time, and ultimately burn to death in a cellulosic still accident.
ReplyDeleteHere we go again, another illegal-loving GWB clone wrt the border:
ReplyDeletePerry does not think the U.S. should build a wall spanning the entire Mexican border.
Perry has been criticized by some fellow conservatives as being too lenient on illegal immigration issues. Unlike fellow GOP presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann, Perry does not think the U.S. should build a wall spanning the entire Mexican border. Perry also has supported discounted tuition rates for the children of illegal immigrants at Texas universities, and he has said Arizona's tough-on-immigration law wouldn't be right for Texas.
As governor, Perry was one of the first to talk about immigration by breaking out the issue of border security, a move that has won him support from conservative Hispanics. But he angered Hispanic leaders in June by endorsing legislation that would have prohibited cities from adopting "sanctuary" rules for handling suspected immigrants.
Perry is all hat, no cattle. All he's got is some rugged good looks and a great ability to remake himself. He was campaign manager for Ozone Al, for Christ's sake.
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Perry - 100 bushel straw, 10 bushel wheat.
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With luck, all those billboard advertisements asking all women that have had sex with Perry to come forward will pay dividends.
ReplyDeleteWhat have we come to - the democrats are shameless, but hell, they used to be Perry's people.
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Simply don't know what to say about those two kids, and their parents. I do remember another case like that not so long ago where the doctors were able to separate the two kids, successfully as I recall.
ReplyDeleteAll four here seem to be doing remarkably well in a really tough situation.
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I do know what to say - they are providing a standard of conduct for us all.
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"Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness, which is the swiftest of all things, all were eternal torment"
ReplyDeleteWilliam Blake
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I hope the production chief opened the loading hatches above and the service door below on that grain bin last night to let the cool in or we'll all be bacon by 9:30 when the play ends.
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