29-01-2013, 11:08 AM
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keepers' in your life?
From our latest batch...
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'keepers' in your life?
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.
Their best friends lived barely a wave away.
I can see them now,
Dad in trousers, work shirt and a hat;
and Mom in a house dress,
lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other.
It was the time for fixing things:
a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door,
the oven door, the hem in a dress.
Things we keep.
It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy .
All that re-fixing, re-heating leftovers, renewing;
I wanted just once to be wasteful? Waste meant affluence.
Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.
But when my mother died,
and I was standing in that clear morning light
in the warmth of the hospital room,
I was struck with the pain of learning
that sometimes there isn't any more.
Sometimes, what we care about most
gets all used up and goes away...
never to return.
So..... While we have it, it's best we love it...
And care for it... And fix it when it's broken...
And heal it when it's sick.
This is true: For marriage... And old cars...
And children who misbehave at times...
Dogs and cats with bad hips...
And aging parents...
And grandparents.
We keep them because they are worth it,
because we are worth it.
Some things we keep,
like a best friend that moved away
or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important,
Like people we know who are special...
And so, we keep them close!
those people that are 'keepers' in your life?
Good friends are like stars ... You don't always see them,
but you know they are always there!
.
.
'keepers' in your life?
Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.
Their best friends lived barely a wave away.
I can see them now,
Dad in trousers, work shirt and a hat;
and Mom in a house dress,
lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other.
It was the time for fixing things:
a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door,
the oven door, the hem in a dress.
Things we keep.
It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy .
All that re-fixing, re-heating leftovers, renewing;
I wanted just once to be wasteful? Waste meant affluence.
Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.
But when my mother died,
and I was standing in that clear morning light
in the warmth of the hospital room,
I was struck with the pain of learning
that sometimes there isn't any more.
Sometimes, what we care about most
gets all used up and goes away...
never to return.
So..... While we have it, it's best we love it...
And care for it... And fix it when it's broken...
And heal it when it's sick.
This is true: For marriage... And old cars...
And children who misbehave at times...
Dogs and cats with bad hips...
And aging parents...
And grandparents.
We keep them because they are worth it,
because we are worth it.
Some things we keep,
like a best friend that moved away
or a classmate we grew up with.
There are just some things that make life important,
Like people we know who are special...
And so, we keep them close!
those people that are 'keepers' in your life?
Good friends are like stars ... You don't always see them,
but you know they are always there!
29-01-2013, 09:46 PM
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Re: keepers' in your life?
Originally Posted by Aerolor
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Thats lovely Michael and so very true.By the way what do you mean by "from our latest batch?"
I send out and receive multiple emails almost on a daily basis.
Many on the listing are based overseas and consequently not all of them are suitable for this type of forum.
I do try to post a reasonable cross section and hope that some members will enjoy them?
I believe it was Lincoln who said...
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“You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
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We receive some great PowerPoint Presentations from time to time.
I have not seen any on here and I guess the site does not support PowerPoint?
That is the end of my rambling for now.
30-01-2013, 12:16 AM
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Re: keepers' in your life?
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”― Abraham Lincoln
30-01-2013, 05:51 AM
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Re: keepers' in your life?
Originally Posted by Michael
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I believe it was Lincoln who said...
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“You can please some of the people some of the time all of the people some of the time some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
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)I must say that personally I detest these mindless homilies which circulate over the internet, they're just another form of spam. Friends have learned not to send them to me, I just wait for them to pass on one of the half witted, xenophobic and/or patently false statements which they inevitably have to pass on. They never send any more.
But that's just me...
30-01-2013, 10:31 AM
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Re: keepers' in your life?
Well, we learn something new every day. Abraham Lincoln did indeed adapt from the words of the poet John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451).Interestingly, it seems there is nothing new under the sun. viz
Ecclesiastes 1:9
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
The Book of Ecclesiastes was likely written approximately 935 B.C.
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