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Posted on 06/30/2008 10:26:42 PM PDT by JustAmy
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You’re welcome! I am glad you found it amongst all the other
things! Weekends are REEEEEALLY busy!
SWEET DREAMS, KITTY MITTENS!
oh.. LIKE THAT DITA!
now to find someone to share that sentiment with!!!
Came home for a short nap before watching Red Shoes (due back at library today)./ The short nap was all night.. so will get the movie again sometime.
Red Shoes was the first dance production I did that was not classic (like Swan Lake etc). I was only 13 & in the corps.. Lots of fun. The cast had a couple hot romances going which I only partly understood a the time.. Lots of rivalry & lots of drama (off the stage). I really cant say that I even know the story line of the musical. We just had our dancing roles & never saw the production as such. This was before the time of easy videos.
“The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.”
— Dostoyevsky
“Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get.”
— Draper L. Kaufman, Jr.
“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.”
— Harriet Rubin
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”
— Joan Baez
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An unemployed man applies for a job with Microsoft as a janitor. The manager arranges for him to take an aptitude test. After the test, the manager says, “You will be employed at minimum wage. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form and tell you where to report for work on your first day.”
Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, “Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed.”
Stunned, the man leaves. Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25-pound flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. In less than two hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100 percent profit. Repeating the process several times that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that night.
And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes. Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he can buy a pickup truck for his expanding business. In two years he has a fleet of pickup trucks and manages a staff of 100 formerly unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy life insurance. Consulting with an adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically. When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned, “What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be if you were connected to the Internet from the very start!”
After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied, “Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!”
Moral of this story:
1. The Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce do not need to rule your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, you may be closer to becoming a janitor than to becoming a millionaire.
4. If you do have a computer and e-mail, you may already have been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.
Someone to share “foever” with.... you bet.
Exquisite glasswing butterflies, I am fascinated by them. I remember when you posted these before, Dolly. They are to wonder at, how they are designed and how they survive, these delicate creatures.
A Blessed Lord’s Day to you and to all who stop by Amy’s Place.
Winston Churchill once said that he related to the church rather like a flying buttress: He supported it from the outside. (A flying buttress is an external support that reinforces the walls of old cathedrals.) I tried that strategy for a while, after coming to believe Christian doctrine sincerely and committing myself to God.
I am not alone. Fewer people attend church on Sunday than claim to follow Christ. Some feel burned by a former experience. Others simply “get nothing out of church.” Why bother?
Today, I could hardly imagine life without church. Church has filled a need for me that can’t be met in any other way. An early-church leader wrote, “The virtuous soul that is alone . . . is like the burning coal that is alone. It will grow colder rather than hotter.”
Christianity is not a purely intellectual, internal faith. It can be lived only in community. At a deep level, I sense that church contains something I desperately need. Whenever I abandoned church for a time, I found that I was the one who suffered. My faith faded, and the crusty shell of lovelessness grew over me again. I grew colder rather than hotter.
And so, my journeys away from church have always circled back to the church.
Oh, YEAH. Nice to see a quote from David Viscott in there, along with the others, a splendid production.
Everybody's beautiful to somebody
Oh, Amy, the poem you found for this is the most beautiful thing, and could not be more perfect. You have such a knack for putting together exactly the right combinations of poems and/or song lyrics with the Welcome graphics - not to mention the text colors that compliment.
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