Thursday, June 28, 2007

Carpe Diem!

                                   

 

If

Rudyard Kipling (1910)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master;
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run--
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!

Sunday, June 17, 2007

YOU'RE THE MAN!

               HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!

                   

 

High from the earth I heard a bird

                                                       Emily Dickinson (1896)

High from the earth I heard a bird;
He trod upon the trees
As he esteemed them trifles,
And then he spied a breeze,
And situated softly
Upon a pile of wind
Which in a perturbation
Nature had left behind.
A joyous-going fellow
I gathered from his talk,
Which both of benediction
And badinage partook,
Without apparent burden,
I learned, in leafy wood
He was the faithful father
Of a dependent brood;
And this untoward transport
His remedy for care,—
A contrast to our respites.
How different we are!

You are the best FATHER ever!

Friday, June 8, 2007

Summer Lovin'

101 Reasons Why I Love Summer: Flowers, flowers, flowers... (repeat flowers 98 times)  

 

10 THINGS I LEARNED FROM GARDENING
 
1. SUNSHINE AND RAIN MAKES ONE PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY FIT.
2. FEED BUT DO NOT OVERFEED.
3. SOME WEEDS AND WILDFLOWERS GROW UP TO BE BEAUTIFUL AND BENEFICIAL.
4. SHARE YOUR BOUNTY. THAT PESKY SQUIRREL USUALLY GOES AWAY WHEN HE HAD HIS FILL.
5. WORMS AND BEES ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
6. TAKE CARE OF THEM AND THEY WILL THRIVE AND PRODUCE.
7. MUSIC IS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY AND ANYBODY.
8. NO CHEMICALS, PLEASE. 
9. TO EACH HIS/HER OWN.
10. GARBAGE IN, ORGANIC AND HEALTHY PLANTS OUT.