Wednesday, August 15, 2007
A quick way to help the environment
https://www.environmentillinois.org/action/protect-lake-michigan/no-bp-gas
Monday, August 13, 2007
One day...
.. this guy was sitting at this bar in Chicago and looks over and sees this guy that looks exactly like him. He says to the guy, "Hey you look just like me!"
The other man agrees and asks, "Where are you from?"
The first guy answers, "Chicago."
"Me too!" says the second guy, "What street do you live on?"
"Forty-Ninth Street," answers the first guy.
"Me too!" says the second guy, becoming increasingly excited. "What's your address?"
''951."
"Me too! Wow, this is incredible! What are your parents' names?"
"John and Cathy," says the first guy.
"Me too!" shouts the second guy. "I wonder if we're related!?"
Meanwhile, the bartenders are changing shifts and the guy coming on asks if anything is new.
"No," says the first bartender, "just the Smith twins, drunk again."
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I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. --Sean O'Casey
The other man agrees and asks, "Where are you from?"
The first guy answers, "Chicago."
"Me too!" says the second guy, "What street do you live on?"
"Forty-Ninth Street," answers the first guy.
"Me too!" says the second guy, becoming increasingly excited. "What's your address?"
''951."
"Me too! Wow, this is incredible! What are your parents' names?"
"John and Cathy," says the first guy.
"Me too!" shouts the second guy. "I wonder if we're related!?"
Meanwhile, the bartenders are changing shifts and the guy coming on asks if anything is new.
"No," says the first bartender, "just the Smith twins, drunk again."
_____________________
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other. --Sean O'Casey
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
What today taught me
While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give. --James Joyce
"For the past five years, Dr. Stephen Post has been funding research projects that test how altruism, compassion, and giving affect people's lives and well-being. He has sponsored more than 50 studies by scientists from 54 major universities. In a wide range of disciplines – from public health to human development to neuroscience, sociology, and evolutionary biology – the studies have demonstrated that love and caring expressed in doing good for others lead people to have healthier, happier, and even longer lives. "
I had a terrific, terrific day today. I got a chance to do something really above and beyond for someone I love, which led to a mess of great people wanting to help, which led to a lot of people becoming happy by association when the pieces finally fell into place. The whole process made the entire day glow.
I want to try to be ridiculously unselfish. I want to be more like Hardee when I grow up.
"For the past five years, Dr. Stephen Post has been funding research projects that test how altruism, compassion, and giving affect people's lives and well-being. He has sponsored more than 50 studies by scientists from 54 major universities. In a wide range of disciplines – from public health to human development to neuroscience, sociology, and evolutionary biology – the studies have demonstrated that love and caring expressed in doing good for others lead people to have healthier, happier, and even longer lives. "
I had a terrific, terrific day today. I got a chance to do something really above and beyond for someone I love, which led to a mess of great people wanting to help, which led to a lot of people becoming happy by association when the pieces finally fell into place. The whole process made the entire day glow.
I want to try to be ridiculously unselfish. I want to be more like Hardee when I grow up.