Dry, Sly And Wry

As reported in Genesis, the Creator surveyed His handiwork and saw that everything was good, not great, which pretty much squares with my own assessment. 

The thing I like best about keeping my own company is that I can usually sense when it's time to leave.

Nothing last forever, which is not to say it cannot seriously overstay its welcome.

If I distrust people different from me, it is because they are not different enough.

According to recent psychological studies, the need to own a dozen cats is really a suppressed desire to own two dozen cats.

A Few Things I Want (And Don't Want)

I don't want any living thing to live in fear of me.

I don't want anyone to feel that there is a truth that cannot be uttered in my presence.

I want never to see another person's honest ambitions as a personal threat.

I want never to claim that I am anyone's conduit to the Word of God.

I want never to judge or be judged by first impression.

I want to share what I've learned, not proselytize what I've always believed. 

I want never to exert power over anyone merely to demonstrate that I can.

I want never to think that people just instinctively know when they are valued or loved or appreciated.

I want, now and then, to say to those I love what I would say to them if they had just died in my arms.

Potpourri

Trouble is, well-intentioned people often make things worse, but ill-intentioned people rarely make things better. 

Somewhere amidst life's endless array of distractions lies its purpose, although it is often a challenge to decide which distraction it is.

To correct someone's bad grammar and be accused of semantics is like correcting someone's bad arithmetic and being accused of mathematics. 

Happy people are more often happy in spite of something than because of something.

Who Be These Strangers From My Past?

We are all in the course of a lifetime many different people -- strangers to us now, shadows in our past, but their battle scars remain ours to carry, their sins ours to atone, their promises ours to keep. How do you reconcile this person you are with these people you once were? 

Who be these strangers from my past 

These ghosts who haunt my day,

Whose battle scars I carry still,

Whose debts I must repay,

Whose trinkets fill my attic space,

Whose idle thoughts my brain,

Whose sins reside upon my soul,

Forever to remain.

How came this mortal coil to be

My final residence,

This house forever haunted by

Its previous occupants? 

But What If...

We think of Doomsday as when everything will end, but what if Doomsday is when everything began? 

We speculate on there being a parallel universe, but what if there's a perpendicular universe?

Science and Religion have this in common -- that they see everything as true or false.  But, see, what if it's multiple choice?

The Daily Grind

 "There are days when you feel that if you walked down the street in a clown costume, no one would recall seeing anyone in a clown costume."

 

"There is no actual law that says you can't get locked into a daily routine that makes you happy."

"Whatever you're trying to prove, it's good occasionally to spend a day not trying to prove it."

"Never let anything ruin your day that is not on the list of things you will let ruin your day."

~~ from Reflections 

A Few Personal Observations

We learn from our mistakes, which explains the education level of those who claim they have never made one.

Life is an exercise in the pursuit of happiness, the actual experience of happiness confined to brief pauses in the pursuit..

If you are to succeed in life, you must ignore the advice of those who dearest desire is to keep you from being disappointed.

No one ever entered their teen years with a well-thought-out exit strategy.

The most basic requirement of a job interviewer is to distinguish the skills needed to do the job from the skills needed to pass the job interview.