Weekend Reflections





I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou

   


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. 



Sky Watch!!

The mind is everything. What you think you become.  –Buddha

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein



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 led by Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia. 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!  http://skyley.blogspot.com/ 



One Quiet Moment



Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost



Need a Laugh??

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.

The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.

Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.

The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'.

The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah went to hell?'

The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'.


A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work.

As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.

The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.'

The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like.'

Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute.'


A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.

After explaining the commandment to 'honour' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?'

From the back, one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.'

One Quiet Moment





I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the
challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet
them all.
-- Myrlie Evers

  

Tom's Scrotum

The best story of the year doesn't give the proper praise and credit  for this painful but understandable story as told by a loving  wife......

The pastor asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express  praise for answered prayers.

Suzy Smith stood and walked to the podium. She said, "I have a praise report.  Two months ago, my husband, Tom had a terrible bike  accident and his scrotum was completely crushed.  The pain was excruciating and the doctors didn't know if they could help him."

You could hear a muffled gasp from the men in the congregation as they  imagined the pain that poor Tom must have experienced.

"Tom was unable to hold me or the children," she went on, "and every  move caused him terrible pain.  We prayed as the doctors performed a delicate operation, and it turned out they were able to piece together  the crushed remnants of Tom's scrotum, and wrap wire around it to hold  it in place."

Again, the men in the congregation squirmed uncomfortably as they  imagined the horrible surgery performed on Tom.

"Now", she announced in a quivering voice, "thank the Lord, Tom is out  of hospital and the doctors say that with time his scrotum should  recover completely."

All the men sighed with unified relief.  The pastor rose and  tentatively asked if anyone else had something to say.

A man stood up and walked slowly to the podium.  He said, "I'm Tom  Smith."  The entire congregation held their breath.  "I just want to  tell my wife the word is sternum."



Our World!!

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!  

Well, actually my post for today is my "new" world in Portland. Things aren't completely finished, but I'm getting there!

One Quiet Moment





Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
 Karl A. Menninger



Enjoy the Beauty Around You!!

The earth laughs in flowers.
                                                       Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a lovely Sunday with lots of love and laughter -- and flowers!!

Shadow Shot Sunday!!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

Your hosts are:
Magical Mystical Teacher
Rose (chubskulit)Gemma Wiseman

http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/



If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
 Jennifer James





Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
 Karl A. Menninger

Weekend Reflections!

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. 

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
                  Lao Tzu

PONDERISMS -- (something to think about for the weekend)

1- I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.

2- There are two kinds of pedestrians . . . The quick and the dead.

 

3- Life is sexually transmitted.

 

4- Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

 

5- The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

 

6- Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

 

7- Have you noticed since everyone has a cell phone these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to?

 

8- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

 

9- All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

 

10- In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

 

11- How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

 

12- Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze these dangly things and drink whatever comes out'? Hmmmmm, How about eggs ? . . .

 

13- If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

 

14- Why does your OB-GYN leave the room when you get undressed if they are going to look up there anyway?

 

16- If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?

 

17- Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

 

18- Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

 

19- Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Sky Watch!



Well, I don't have the unobstructed view of the skies that I had in Seattle, but we have had beautiful colors lately!!
I want to wish all of you a very Happy 4th of July!! Enjoy!!

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 led by Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia. 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!  http://skyley.blogspot.com/ 

The silence of nature is very real.   It surrounds you . . . you
        can feel it.  Ted Trueblood

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson





One Quiet Moment

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

No One Says it Like Kids!!

 

While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went to the receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent. Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair. Placing his hand on the man's, he said, I know how you feel. My Mom makes me ride in the stroller too..'*****As I was nursing my baby, my cousin's six-year-old daughter, Krissy, came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before, she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was doing.
After mulling over my answers, she remarked, 'My mom has some of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them..'*****Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old Granddaughter, Carolyn, I got a little wistful. 'In ten years,' I said, 'you'll want to be with your friends and you won't go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.
Carolyn shrugged. 'In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things anyway.'******
Working as a pediatric nurse, I had the difficult assignment of giving immunization shots to children..
One day, I entered the examining room to give four-year-old Lizzie her needle. 'No, no, no!' she screamed. 'Lizzie,' scolded her mother, 'that's not polite behavior.' With that, the girl yelled even louder, 'No, thank you! No, thank you!******
On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said to my son, 'Dad, I know babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do they get there in the first place?' After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in disgust, 'You don't have to make up something, Dad It's okay if you don't know the answer.'
*****Just before I was deployed to Iraq , I sat my eight-year-old son down and broke the news to him. 'I'm going to be away for a long time,' I told him. 'I'm going to Iraq ..' 'Why?' he asked. 'Don't you know there's a war going on over there?'*****Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children stricken with cancer, AIDS, and blood
Diseases. One afternoon, he and is wife, Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids. A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients wouldn't know Newman was a famous movie star, explained, that's the man who made this camp possible. Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing bottle?' Blank stares. 'Well, you've probably seen his face on his lemonade carton.' An eight-year-old girl perked up. 'How long was he missing?'*****... And my personal favorite ..God's Problem Now:
His wife's graveside service was just barely finished, when there was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of lightning, accompanied by even more thunder rumbling in the distance. The little, old man looked at the pastor and calmly said, "Well, she's there."

 

 

 

One Quiet Moment

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
 Oscar Wilde

A New Look at Home Schooling -- At Least in Some Ways!!

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning." 2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet." 3. My father taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" 4. My father taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why." 5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC . "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." 6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." 7. My father taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." 8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS . "Shut your mouth and eat your supper." 9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!" 10. My mother taught me about STAMINA . "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone." 11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it." 12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!" 13. My father taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.." 14.. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOUR MODIFICATION . "Stop acting like your father!" 15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do." 16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home." 17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING . "You are going to get it when you get home!" 18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way." 19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?" 20. My father taught me HUMOUR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me." 21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT . "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up." 22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father." 23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?" 24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand.   25. My mother taught me about JUSTICE . "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you !" =============

  

To All the Wonderful Followers of Our World!

I've been unable to get out with the camera to get photos of My World this week and I will miss participating and hope to join in again soon. In the meantime I'm sharing some wise words with you! Wishing all of you a wonderful week with lots of joy and laughter and beautiful places and things to photograph!!

  Law of  the Garbage Truck

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, 'Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!' This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, 'The Law of the Garbage Truck.'

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.

As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally.

Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.

Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets,

so ...  Love the people who treat you right.

Pray for the ones who don't .

Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

Have a garbage-free day!

One Quiet Moment

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must
     carry it with us or we find it not.
     Ralph Waldo Emerson

May You Have a Beautiful, Summer Sunday!!

Flowers are like human beings . . . they thrive on a little
        kindness.

           Fred Streeter



Shadow Shot Sunday!!

Come play with us and the shadows!!

Your hosts are:
Magical Mystical Teacher
Rose (chubskulit)Gemma Wiseman

http://shadowshotsunday2.blogspot.com/

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.      Ralph Waldo Emerson







The world will never starve for wonder, but only for want of
     wonder.
     G.K. Chesterson



Weekend Reflection



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. 



The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.
                                          Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sky Watch!!

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 led by Yogi, Sandy and Sylvia. 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!  http://skyley.blogspot.com/ 

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our
        understandings and our hearts.
             William Hazlett

After a thundershower, the weather takes a pledge and signs
        it with a rainbow.
    Thomas Bailey Aldrich



Each moment of the year has its own beauty . . . a picture
        which was never before and shall never be seen again.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson



One Quiet Moment

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And  today?
Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babtundi Oltunji

New Addition to the Kitchen!!!

One Quiet Moment



One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca



Having a Bad Day??

So you think you're having a bad day...

then you step outside of your house...

look up into

the Beautiful blue sky...

and see this !!!!!

 

All of a sudden, that smile comes back to your face and you say to yourself

Now that's a big ass balloon !!!

and things don't seem quite so bad !!!

One Quiet Moment

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
Markus Zusak

Ah! At Last! Blonde MEN Jokes!!

A friend told the blonde man: “Christmas is on a Friday this year.”

The blonde man then said, “Let’s hope it’s not the 13th.”

Two blonde men find three grenades, and they decide to take them  to a police station.

 One asked: ”What if one explodes before we get there?”

 The other says: “We’ll lie and say we only found two.”

A woman phoned her blonde neighbor man and said: “Close your curtains the next time you and your wife are having sex. The whole street was watching and laughing at you yesterday.”

 To which the blonde man replied: “Well the joke’s on all of you because I wasn’t even at home yesterday.”

A blonde man is in the bathroom and his wife shouts: “Did you find the shampoo?”

He answers, “Yes, but I’m not sure what to do…it’s for dry hair, an I’ve just wet mine

A blonde man goes to the vet with his goldfish. “I think it’s got epilepsy,” he tells the vet. The vet takes a look and says, “It seems calm enough to me”.  The blonde man says, “Wait, I haven’t taken it out of the bowl yet”.

A blonde man spies a letter lying on his doormat. It says on the envelope “DO NOT BEND”. He spends the next 2 hours trying to figure out how to pick it up.

A blonde man shouts frantically into the phone, “My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only to minutes apart!”

“Is this her first child?” asks the Doctor.

“No” he shouts,, “this is her husband!”

A blonde  man was driving home, drunk as a skunk. Suddenly he has to swerve to avoid a tree, then another, then another. A cop pulls him over, so he tells the cop about the trees in the road. The cop says, “That’s your air freshener swinging about.”

A blonde man’s dog goes missing and he is frantic. His wife says “Why don’t you put an ad in the paper?”

He does, but two weeks later the dog is still missing.

“What did you put in the paper?” his wife asks.

“Here boy!” He replies.

A blonde man is in jail. Guard looks in his cell and see him hanging by his feet. “Just WHAT are you doing?” he asks.

“Hanging myself,” the blond replies.

“It should be around your neck” says the guard.

“I tried that,” he replies, “but then I couldn’t breathe”.

(This actually makes sense)

An Italian tourist asks a blonde man: “Why do Scuba divers fall backwards off their boats?”

To which the blonde man replies ”If they fell forward, they’d sill be in the boat.”