Blog entry
June 2024
June Thought of the Month
"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."
~ Michael Altshuler
The year is nearly half over already. While time moves pretty much at the same pace it always has, we perceive it as flying by. We spend too much of our present dealing with the future. This has made us hyperaware of time and its passing.
May 2024
May Thought of the Month
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's a sad fact of life that other people will try to pigeonhole us, telling us what life paths we should follow and which dreams aren't for us, all without bothering to take the time to know us. Our desires and preferences take a distant second place to their opinions. We waste time, in some cases years, trying to be what we aren't to make others happy.
April 2024
April Thought of the Month
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."
~ Proverbs 17:22
Have you ever wondered why the world seems so much worse off even if statistics say otherwise? The next time you watch a broadcast news show, compare the number of "bad" news and "good" news stories. The bad always outweighs the good. That old saw that if it bleeds it leads has become the standard. Since our news services fill our days with negatives, it's up to us to offset that with positives.
March 2024
March Thought of the Month
"Do not spend the best part of your life pursuing small ambitions."
~ Joseph Prince
I grew up in a city and will always remember the first time I saw a night sky beyond the reach of artificial lights. Thousands upon thousands of stars surround our planet and until that moment I'd had no idea they existed. Possibilities are like those stars. If you're in the wrong environment, you can't see them. And if you don't know they're there, it is impossible to make them realities.
February 2024
February Thought for the Month
"Drop the people who do not value you, respect you. Life has infinite horizons. Accept yourself, love yourself, and move forward."
~ Amit Ray
In February thoughts turn to Valentine's Day and celebrating the love and friendship we have for the people in our lives. I'd like to encourage everyone to give themselves a little love too.
January 2024
January Thought of the Month
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
~ Stephen Grellet
December 2023
December Thought of the Month
"How did it get so late so soon. It's night before it's afternoon. December before it's June. My goodness, how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
~ Dr. Seuss
November 2023
November Thought of the Month
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
~ Leo Buscaglia
October 2023
October Thought of the Month
"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."
~ George Horace Lorimer
September 2023
September Thought of the Month
"The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
~ James Whitcomb Riley
