Sylvia's world in thoughts and pictures
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Come play with us and the shadows!!
Your hosts are:Magical Mystical Teacher Rose (chubskulit) Gemma Wiseman |
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| Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier |
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| Weekend Reflections is hosted by James each week beginning Friday at 11 AM Eastern Standard Time. It's another wonderful way of opening your eyes to new and different kinds of beauty. Click on the web address under the blog title and sign up to play with us! |
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| Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. Gloria Steinem |
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| Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland |
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| You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere. Donella Meadows |
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| Time to share your skies, the beauty over your world, the clouds, the colors! Sky Watch is hosted each week by the Sky Watch team of Sandy and I. And this week as every week, we remember Klaus and know that he joins us in spirit! Join us and the many people from all over the world who share theirs with us each week! |
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| Dreams are necessary to life. Anais Nin |
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| People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. Dorothy Gilman |
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| When you cease to dream you cease to live. Malcolm Forbes |
My wonderful 90 year old lady friend does find some of the best pieces and I always like to share her stuff with you!
I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm too old to track down terrorists. You can't be older than 42 to join the military. They've got the whole thing ass-backwards.
Instead of sending 18-year olds off to fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join a military unit until you're at least 35.
For starters, researchers say 18-year-olds think about sex every 10 seconds. Old guys only think about sex a couple of times a month, leaving us more than 280,000 additional seconds per day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. 'My back hurts! I can't sleep, I'm tired and hungry.' We are bad-tempered and impatient, and maybe letting us kill some asshole that desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn't even like to get up before 10am. Old guys always get up early to pee, so what the hell. Besides, like I said, I'm tired and can't sleep and since I'm already up, I may as well be up killing somefanatical son-of-a-bitch.
If captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
Boot camp would be easier for old guys. We're used to getting screamed and yelled at and we're used to soft food. We've also developed an appreciation for guns. We've been using them for years as an excuse to get out of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
They could lighten up on the obstacle course however... I've been in combat and never saw a single 20-foot wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any pushups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy, too... I've never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him. He's still learning to shave, to start a conversation with a pretty girl. He still hasn't figured out that a baseball cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to learn a little more about life before sending them off into harm's way.
Let us old guys track down those terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a couple million pissed off old farts with bad attitudes and automatic weapons, who know that their best years are already behind them.
Send this to all of your senior friends...it's in big type so they can read it.
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| All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney |
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| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt |
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| A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore |
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No nursing home for us. We'll be checking into a Holiday
Inn!
With the average cost for a nursing home care costing
$188.00 per day, per person, there is a better way when we get old and
too feeble.
I've already checked on
reservations at the Holiday Inn. For a combined long term stay discount and
senior discount, it's $59.23 per night for two people. Breakfast is included, and some
have happy hours in the afternoon. That leaves $128.77 a day for lunch and
dinner in any restaurant we want, or room service,laundry,gratuities and
special TV movies.
Plus, they provide a spa, swimming pool, a workout room, a
lounge and washer-dryer, etc.
Most have free toothpaste and razors, and all have free
shampoo and soap.
$5 worth of tips a day you'll have the entire staff scrambling to help you.
They treat you like a customer, not a patient.
There's a city bus stop out front, and seniors ride free.
The handicap bus will also pick you up (if you fake a
decent limp).
To
meet other nice people, call a church bus on Sundays.
For
a change of scenery, take the airport shuttle bus and eat at one of the nice
restaurants there.
While you're at the airport, fly somewhere. Otherwise, the
cash keeps building up.
It takes months to get into decent nursing homes. Holiday Inn will take your reservation today.
And you're not stuck in one place forever -- you can move
from Inn to Inn, or even from city to city.
Want to see Hawaii ? They have Holiday Inn there too.
TV broken? Light bulbs need changing? Need a mattress
replaced? No problem.. They fix everything, and apologize for the
inconvenience.
The Inn has a night security person and daily room service. The maid checks to see if you are ok. If not, they'll call an ambulance . . . or the undertaker. If you fall and break a hip, Medicare will pay for the hip, and Holiday Inn will upgrade you to a suite for the rest of your life. And no worries about visits from family. They will always be glad to find you, and probably check in for a few days mini-vacation. The grand kids can use the pool. What more could I ask for? So, when I reach that golden age, I'll face it with a grin. AIDS WARNING ! To all of you approaching 50 or have REACHED 50 and past, this email is especially for you...... SENIOR CITIZENS ARE THE NATION'S LEADING CARRIERS OF AIDS! HEARING AIDS BAND AIDS ROLL AIDS WALKING AIDS MEDICAL AIDS GOVERNMENT AIDS MOST OF ALL, MONETARY AID TO THEIR KIDS! Not forgetting HIV (Hair is Vanishing) I love to see you smile. |
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Time for "Our World" again!
This is a wonderful way to find the
beauty, the fun, the good and even the bad
things about Our World and to share them! Hope
you will join us! Click on the link to
go to the Our World site and sign up!!
http://ourworldtuesdaymeme.blogspot.com/ |
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| We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha |
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| I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch |
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| Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. Jean de La Fontaine |
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| If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. Mother Teresa |
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| We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. William Hazlitt |
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| When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix |
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| Hey guys, get up off your tush and lets go see Bozo over at his pad in Mumbai! It's always a fun time when we all get together and talk about what's been happin', Bro! You know? Get your human to click on the Post Title, that'll take them to the website where you can sign up! I'll be waiting for you!! |
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| How much longer before we go to Portland??? I am going to have to have a hair cut before we go, aren't I?? They need to be able to see my eyes so they'll know how happy I am to be there -- right?? |
