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SSA Blog #033 By Michelle
Drew December 19, 2005
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It's good to
be back in New England again. It's much warmer here than in Wyoming,
where Robert remains for another few days. This weekend he went ice
fishing with his friend Stub. He was so excited to that he seems he
forgot how much he dislikes being cold!! When we spoke last night, he
was headed to the hot tub to warm up a bit. It's always good to
see Robert take time for sports or hobbies, He works hard with little
time taken off for fun and adventure. This weekend when he took time
for himself, he got to remember again how much fun there was to be had.
How about
you? Do the stresses of life and the holidays have you in a frenzy? Be
sure to take some time for yourself and your family during this season.
This is the reason that you go to work each day. Take time to relax and
appreciate those who have been there for you all year. While you are
enjoying what you have, do take the time to make a charitable donation.
If you have
children, have them contribute in small ways like a pair of gloves.
Your family can collect food, money, or clothes for your local
charitable agencies. And don't forget the senior citizens in your
lives. Helping them out with decorating, shopping or paying a high
winter heating bill, will be welcome contributions to the seniors, but
a valuable lesson in taking care of the elderly and needy at this time
of year.
All
Good Thoughts
The greatest
pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and
to have it
found out by accident.
Charles
Lamb
The most valuable things in life are not measured in
monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands,
stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust,
confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.
Bertrand Russell
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The
fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what
harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
Reader Contribution
Here are a few "factoids" sent in by Scott
Nov 19, 2004 - Japanese researchers using the Subaru Telescope have
found a large galaxy caught in the act of consuming a smaller companion
galaxy. It's a messy eater; there's a wispy trail of stars over 500,000
light-years long, which is the longest astronomers have ever seen.
Examples of this kind of galactic destruction are hard to find because
the consumed are usually dim dwarf galaxies. We have only indirect
evidence of digested galaxies in our own Milky Way, like groups of
stars traveling in an unusual trajectory.
In 4000 BC Egypt, men and women wore glitter eye shadow
made from the crushed shells of beetles.
In M&M candies, the letters stand for Mars and Murrie,
the developers of the candy in 1941.
In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion
by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" actually made with
the poison
Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
Most lipstick contains fish scales.
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