Retirement Notes

 "One of the revelations of retirement is how long life can go on after you've completed your memoirs." 

"The older you get, the more you despair of the human race, possibly the result of llimiting your new acquaintanceships to people you meet in traffic.

"A continuing challenge in retirement is what to do when a police officer tells you to go about your business."

"I went to a seance the other day where we all sat around trying to communicate with spirits from the past.  Wait, that was my class reunion."

Obits and Pieces

As a general rule, your life story is more interesting the longer you can postpone the living happily ever after. 

If winning were everything, wouldn't your obituary say whether you won or lost?

Obituary -- an account that sums up your life's work in one line and goes on and on about how you loved the beach, dancing and eating breakfast out.

We are all born for a reason, life being a list of things we have to attend to first.

Somewhere amid life's endless distractions lies its purpose, each of us deciding for ourselves which distraction it is.

The Mother's Day Collection

 

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"Mom -- the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself."


"What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights."


"If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been."


"Ever wonder why someone would give up the leading role in her own life story to play the mom in yours?"


"There seems, early in life, to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up."


                                Hide and Seek

                  A mother always counts to ten,
                      And never, never peeks,
                 But always knows just where you
                          hide,
                     And there she never seeks,
                Until the very nick of time,
                     Lest tears run down your cheeks.



"I guess I have never doubted that we are each born to our guardian angel."


"Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we remember a lesson our mother taught us, just as on a cold winter's day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeves."


"Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance."


"A mother forgives you all your faults, not to mention one or two you don't even have."


"Eventually you realize that your mom knows exactly who you are and has been trying to break it to you gently all your life."


"It occurs to you one day that the reason God didn't always answer your prayers is that He was answering your mom's prayers."


"Your mom reads you like a book, and everywhere she goes, people read you like a glowing book review."

                                         Those Times

                  

Those times you could not see her tears,

Do you think she didn't cry?

Those times you could not bear the truth,

Do you think she didn't lie?

Those times you wished she loved you less,

Do you think she didn't try?

Five For The Road

 A best friend is that rare person who can reveal to us our capacity for fun.

I'm not sure what the measure of truth is, although I'm reasonably sure it's not a comfort index,

The first place to look for meaning in life is in something you've always been meaning to do.

We are all human beings, fallible and misunderstood, which is to say, often guilty but seldom as charged.

Do you suppose that evil ever worries that its efforts are too little, too late?

Behind The Mask

Sometimes we don't win another person's trust because we can't tell the lie it would take.

Life is not fair, a frequent observation of those responsible.

Never put yourself in the position where you consider someone telling the truth a traitor.

You are not a true hypocrite if you merely preach one thing and do another; you must also, simultaneously, deplore hypocrisy. 

Not all marriages prove to be true love, but all marriages serve to identify it.

It is easier to engrave it on a monument than to live it.

This, That And Happiness!

It's a curious thing, the School of Life, its graduates never known to have a class reunion or respond to an alumni appeal..

 One advantage evil has over good is its vastly greater ability to cite precedent.

We learn from our mistakes, especially the mistake of not learning from history.

The problem with self-improvement is that it's usually not completed early enough in life to affect evolution. 

Ah, happiness, lying unnoticed beneath the busyness of the moment, revealing itself only to the quiet of our recollection.

From Our Random Observer

In 1492, Columbus discovered America, which, up to then, had been minding its own business.

If there's a lesson in history, it is that you don't ever want to be discovered by a more advanced civilization. 

One thing you never get from love is a credible explanation of what it sees in you.

The chief cause of unemployment is getting the job done.  If you want steady work, merely show progress.  

 We get pretty much the happiness we arrange to have, the happiness mainly in the arrangements.

It is a difficult trade, comfort for happiness, and usually done over the loud objections of the body.