Posted: under Inspirationals.
Tags: attention, experience, focus, heart, listening, love, man, power, value, wisdom, woman
by: Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom
I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. And especially if it’s given from the heart. When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they’re saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don’t value ourselves or our love enough to know this. It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simple saying, “I’m so sorry,” when someone is in pain. And meaning it. Read More
Aug 30 2008
Posted: under "A Slice Of Life", Inspirationals.
Tags: advice, attention, bliss, earth, friends, habit, happiness, inspiration, joy, life, man, memories, moment, photos, seasons, spirit, tips, truth, woman, world
Have you ever noticed that you do not remember days, you remember
moments?
A strange story about immortalizing moments comes from the book
SPIRITUAL LITERACY (Touchstone Books) by authors Frederic and Mary
Ann Brussat. It is about a Brooklyn cigar store manager named Oggie
Rand. Oggie has an unusual habit — at precisely eight o’clock each
morning, he photographs the front of the store. Always at exactly the
same time and from exactly the same spot. Every morning. Oggie
collects his daily snapshots in photograph albums, each labeled by
date. He calls his project his “life’s work.” Read More
Aug 30 2008
Posted: under Daily Quotes.
Tags: care, kindness, life, quotes, reward, today, understanding
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going
to be
dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and
understanding
you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life
will
never be the same again. - Og Mandino
Aug 30 2008
Posted: under Short Funny Jokes.
Tags: age, doctor, elderly, era, eyes, funny, granny, humor, jokes, laughter, Mathematics, mother, mother-in-law, physician, seniors, short, smiles, specialist, surgeon, time
When a grandmother was in her late eighties, she decided to
move to Israel. As part of the preparations, she went to see
her doctor and get all her charts. The doctor asked her how
she was doing, so she gave him a litany of complaints –
this hurts, that’s stiff, I’m tired and slower, etc.
He responded, “Mrs. Siegel, you have to expect things to
start deteriorating. After all, who wants to live to 100?” Read More
Aug 29 2008
Posted: under Short Funny Jokes.
Tags: age, bishop, church, cow, designer, earth, elderly, era, excitement, farmer, fashion, fire, flame, food, funny, history, jokes, land, language, man, minister, morning, pants, pastor, period, pope, preacher, priest, reverend, seniors, sermon, service, short, style, suit, Sunday, thought, time, words, youth
On Sunday, the new young pastor arrived at church and found
only an old farmer had shown up.
After waiting a while, the disappointed pastor remarked
to the old farmer, “Well, it appears no one else is coming,
so we should probably cancel service today” Read More
Aug 29 2008
Posted: under Funny and Hilarious Jokes.
Tags: baby, beauty, child, couple, father-in-law, funny, hilarious, husband, jokes, man, marriage, parents, redneck, spouse, wife, woman
“An extraordinarily handsome man decided he had the responsibility to marry the perfect woman so they could produce beautiful children beyond compare.
With that as his mission he began to search for the perfect woman.
Shortly thereafter he met a Redneck who had three stunning, gorgeous daughters that positively took his breath away. So he explained his mission to the Redneck and asked for permission to marry one of them. Read More
Aug 29 2008