“The purpose of life is to discover your gift.
The work of life is to develop it.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away.”
David Viscott
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Thoughts on Solitude
“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.”
Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and diplomat (1904–1973)
Fur Fun: Loves and Likes
Do what you love
or at least what you like
fishing is good
as is riding a bike
If you never have fun
All the should, could, woulds
your life they will run
Fur Fun: Buried Alive
When under ground
and no one’s around
it’s very dark before the dawn
or perhaps it’s dawn before the dark?
It’s sometimes hard to tell
So make sure you’re planted
at just the right depth
and not in some deep well
Fur Fun: Opportunity
The Fate of young ladies who “demurred”
with Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg
There once was a Miss
who declined a kiss
fearing the poor lad
would make her look bad
if the news leaked
about her and this geek.
There’s no mystery
The rest is history
This fearful honey
is out of the money
Fur Fun: Life Lessons from Noah’s Ark
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Don’t miss the boat.
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Remember that we are all in the SAME boat.
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Plan ahead. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
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Stay fit. When you’re 600 years old, someone may ask you to do something REALLY big.
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Don’t listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
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Build your future on high ground.
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For safety sake, travel in pairs.
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Speed isn’t always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
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When you’re stressed, float a while
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Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
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No matter the storm, when you are with God, there’s always a rainbow waiting.
However,
The woodpecker might have to go!
Fur Fun: Throw it Around
Throw kindness around like confetti
Sprinkle it slow, sprinkle it steady
Let it fall from the air
stick in the hair
get caught on the lips
sit on by hips
Throw kindness around without care
Show there’s more than enough to spare
Before you die, follow your heart with spirit
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart”. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005
Liberty of Life
You are already naked
to follow your heart
Elixir of Death
The powder that dries all wounds
return back to God
There was a time in my life when I couldn’t even hear the word death without bursting into tears,into painful, bone marrow deep fear. My father told me over and over as a child that when we die we are nothing. Our bodies shrivel into powder and we are nothing. I would lie awake agonizing over that impossible thought; That one day I would perish into a blackness so profound that I would no longer exist.
He also said that energy was never lost, it only changed form. I was too young to notice the discrepancy between his view of death and his view of life.
I no longer burst into tears. I no longer believe that we will not exist beyond this human life. It’s only taken about 60 years for me to embrace the scientific fact that matter never is lost, and the spiritual belief that the human spirit is never lost, that our souls simply transform as we grow spiritually, spiraling higher and higher, closer and closer to God.
“Know thou that every hearing ear, if kept pure and undefiled, must, at all times and from every direction, hearken to the voice that uttereth these holy words: “Verily, we are God’s, and to Him shall we return.” “The mysteries of man’s physical death and of his return have not been divulged, and still remain unread. By the righteousness of God! Were they to be revealed, they would evoke such fear and sorrow that some would perish, while others would be so filled with gladness as to wish for death, and beseech, with unceasing longing, the one true God–exalted be His glory–to hasten their end. …“ http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-82.html
Crab Cooker Quotes Covey
Crab looking up
“The main thing is to keep the main thing
the main thing.”
Was in Newport Beach, CA the other day. Passed by the Crab Cooker Restaurant and this quote was painted on the outside wall.
I read it twice. The first time thinking it was strange. ” The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing” and then the second time: “Whoa that’s profound!”
(Verrrrrrrrrrrrrry clever and very astute for a Crab Cooker. I knew that crabs were tasty but didn’t know that crabs were clever.)
I wanted to remember it, repeating to myself 3 times“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
I Only had to remember 6 different words.
Today I sat down to type a highly provocative essay on how to identify what YOUR main thing is so you could keep it.
Now what were those 6 words?
The main thing is the thing to remain the main thing? Mainly the main thing is the thing to remember? The main thing is always the main thing for the main thing? The thing that’s main is the main thing to be the main thing? The main thing is being the main thing of main things? Remember the Maine (I had long stopped counting the words) I looked up the Crab Cooker web-site — main courses, main dishes, main street, no main things.
Crab looking out
I googled “sayings, the main thing”
Wadda ya know Stephen Covey said it. THE Steven R. Covey who wrote The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®
I’ve never read the book fearing that I have none of the habits of Highly Effective People and I would have to get some.
So I think I’ll just stay with The Main thing is Mainly the Thing and only have to memorize 5 different words instead of 6.
Stay tuned for the provocative essay . . .
Crab looking tasty
