Fun Stuff

 "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Willa Cather

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Links

If you have some links that you’d like to share, please pass them over and I’ll put them here for everyone to see.

• Burlington County Library - - Mom volunteers at this library on Tuesdays. Mom says, “books have always been a love in my life - I enjoy the time there.”
• Recording for the Blind - Dad has been a volunteer chemistry reader and editor for over 15 years for RFB. He’s a past member of the NJ Unit Board of Directors.
• Miographies - Moe’s web site - “honoring the stories of a lifetime.”
• The Tyler Lewke Team - Tyler’s Prudential First Realty site.
• Employee Health Consultants - Rick’s web site which includes the monthly EHC newsletter.
• Leo Kottke - See where Leo is playing next and tell him that Jackie says “hi.”
• Tim Sparks - One of my favorite acoustic guitarists.
• LA Consulting - Check out my personal web site and see some of the other sites I’ve designed!
• Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan - This is the Tai Chi style that I teach and practice.
• Cicadas in Princeton - My neighbor put this site together with photos of the 17-year cicada invasion in Princeton.

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Light Hearted Thoughts...

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?

Answers called out ranged from 8oz. to 20oz.

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. "If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance."

“In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes." He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work/life down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy!

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

1. Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
2. Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
3. Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
4. Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their Maker.
5. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
6. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
7. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
8. Never buy a car you can't push.
9. Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
10. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
11. Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
12. The second mouse gets the cheese.
13. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
14. Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
15. You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
16. Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
17. We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some  have weird names and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
18. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

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