If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

--HH The Dalai Lama

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli

"A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take."-- Cardinal Mermillod

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success.- Dorothea Brande

My Day: 5/20/08

tried to clean up a bit at home. went to work at noon.

worked on tax deadline.

very bad storm - hail, 70mph wind, rain, we were in the car, terrified.

a friend called.

kids trained, chatted with my favorite people at the academy.

(mr. brooks is back...yey!)

housework, book.

store's back door was left open, nothing missing, neighbors watched the place.

need to chat with a friend from singapore...

need to bug a friend (har, har).

""i will see it when I believe it." - Dr. Wayne Dyer

My Day: 5/19/2008

Visited a friend. Trained new personnel.

Worked a bit. Trained hard in Muay Thai.

Worked on the book.

Slept.

Readings: Alan Greenspan's The Age Of Turbulence

The Art Of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama
Tomorrow: Do better than I did today.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

--James Allen

My Day:

Sunday.

Spent the day at Ocean Breeze Waterpark with the boys.

Worked with D on a science project.

Housework.

Bugged a friend (ha!).

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. ~Rod McKuen, Looking for a Friend (Thank you, Carolyn.)

My Day: Saturday 5/17

Boys trained. I joined them in Competition Training. Sparred.

Good day at Linxx.

May have found new friends.

Bugged a friend (Ha!)

the little things

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of LITTLE THINGS, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. - Sir Humphrey Davy

Funny how sometimes the little things we do -- get noticed, appreciated and missed (ha!)...to be continued...

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