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SSA Blog #48 By Michelle
Drew February 8 2006
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Reader
Contribution
A
Wish For You
By Mike Franklyn
1-23-06
If I could find
the words I’d take you to an evening
where you would see purple hills against an orange sky Where once again
you can
spin on the soft cool grass until you dizzily and merrily keep falling
down until
Mama calls you to supper
If I could find the words I’d take
you where you would
hear bats beeping in the
growing dusk and the cooling night air amid the cries of your
playmates
calling out, ally, ally in free If
I could find the words
I’d take you to a pond where
the water is warmer than the night air and you sink into a blanket of
this
delicious warmth so that you float there and
never
wish to leave.
If I could find the
words
I’d take you where you could
smell the sweet aroma of new cut grass intermingled with the musty
smell of the
dark and nearby woods and the pungent odor of the dairy farm beyond.
If I could find the words I’d take you to the shimmering
road ahead on an August Dog day that evokes the thought of a tall
crystal clear
and cold glass of well water or a random wisp of cool air that relieves
you
with it’s caress
If I could find the words I’d take you where your nose
would twitch at the acrid smell of burning leaves on a sunny crisp
afternoon
that also makes you itchy to jump into a crunchy pile of these leaves
before
they’re gone.
If I could find the words I’d take you where you would
hear the crump and swish of your boots on a new fallen snow and you’d
feel the
tingle of the cold clean flakes you bestirred on your cheeks.
If I could find the words
I’d take you to a cardboard box
castle where you’d arm yourself with a mighty swift sword made of a
wooden
stick. Where you and your imaginary friends would defeat your imaginary
enemies.
If I could only find the
words.
@ Copyright 2006 By
Mike Franklyn All Rights
Reserved
All Good Thoughts
No trumpets
sound when the important decisions of our life
are made.
Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes De
Mille, Dancer
It is better by
noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to
half the evils
we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness
for fear of
what might happen.
Herodotus
There is
no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent or
hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Do not be too
timid and squeamish about your actions. All
life is an
experiment. The more experiments you make the
better. What if
they are a little course, and you may get
your coat
soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get
fairly rolled
in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall
never be so
afraid of a tumble.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Inspirational
Reading
ADVICE THAT
RINGS TRUE
An efficiency
expert once concluded his lecture with the comment,
"Please don't
try these techniques at home."
"Why not?" he
was asked.
"I used to
watch my wife prepare breakfast and wondered why she made
so many trips
to the table carrying only one item at a time," he
replied. "One
day I asked her, 'Wouldn't it be quicker and more
efficient if
you organized yourself to carry several things to the
table at
once?'"
"Did it
work?" he was asked.
"Oh, yes, it
worked," the expert replied. "It used to take my wife
twenty
minutes to prepare breakfast. Now I do it in seven."
Not all
advice is readily received. And sometimes it is not heard the
way it was
intended. But neither should all advice be followed;
rather,
wisdom learns to separate kernels of truth from weeds.
Some advice
worthy of consideration, though, comes from one of the
richest
people in the United States, offered to 380 high school
students in
Omaha, Nebraska. Here are five suggestions
multi-billionaire
Warren Buffett gave his audience:
1. Avoid
credit cards. If you are going to make progress, you will not
do it by
borrowing at 18 to 20 percent interest.
2. Develop
integrity, which guides intelligence and energy. Buffett
said he looks
for these three qualities in hiring people. "If they
don't have
the first one, integrity, the other two will kill you."
3. Establish
good habits, picking people to admire and following their
example,
while learning to weed out attributes that are not admirable.
"If you do
that," he admonished, "two or three years from now you'll
find out the
person you admire most will be yourself."
4. Learn
about companies before investing in them; do not rely on
someone
else's advice.
5. Choose
professions for love of the work, not money.
My "Internet"
friend, Alan Hillman, who sent this list, adds an
excellent
comment: "I believe the same advice is true for all of us,
even someone
like me who is about to enter my sixth decade of life.
Seven years
ago I decided to do what I loved most - loving people.
Since that
time my cup has slowly been filled and is now flowing over
the brim with
love. Simultaneously, while seeking humility and
significance,
I lost pride and prominence. In the meantime, I became
debt-free and
have a high six-figure net worth.
"During those
seven years I have had several mottoes. Probably the
most
significant one is: If you are not loving life, you are not
living love."
Some advice
just rings true. The wise will follow.
Steve Goodier
www.lifesupport.com
