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RE: Old age

Your Dad sounds wonderful

What a lovely thread !!!

the thought of getting old terrifies me - I really never want to be a burden on anybody and figure the best time to start working on a solution is now - I eat at least one apple a day (to keep the doctor away) and try to do my three mile walk as many times a week as possible

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haha - I bet the weeds you refer to are the really expensive ones in the flower shops here

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I was hoping you had got back from your walk BB - Thank you too

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haha, great quotes yourself - thank you

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Why, thank you kind sir

Ive been meaning to post them for days

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They are good Bubbly - What did Grace Hansen write? I havent heard of her but like the quote

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awww Nightingale, Im touched - Thank YOU

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so true Matt

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I thought you had already done the Greece trip - silly me - I cant keep up with your travels

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BUBBLY - oh how brilliant to see you
I have been meaning to write back - not been around much myself of late

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We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.
–William E. Gladstone

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.
–Leo Buscaglia

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
–George Bernard Shaw

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.
–Dan Millman

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
–Thomas Carlyle

Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbons.
–Ann Ruth Schabaker

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
–George Bernard Shaw

A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
–Albert Einstein

When I take on a new problem, I'm not interested in how it's been done before. I only want to know, of all the constraints people tend to assume, which ones are actually fundamental and which ones are just habit?
–Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems

There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side.
–Clement of Alexandria

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.
–William Adams

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
–Eleanor Roosevelt

You can never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
–Buckminster Fuller

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
–Jonathan Winters

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
–Harold B. Melchart

Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait... and peace will appear.
–Guy Finley

"The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy."
–Benjamin E. Mayes

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."

"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can be aroused by two things: first, an idea which takes the imagination by storm; and second, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that idea into action."
–Henry Miller

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."
–Henry Miller

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp

RE: Deja Vu Variants...

haha - these are ringing bells somewhere in my tired little brain

RE: Not Half Bad

haha - yes, go for the before and after I suppose there must be lots of beautiful wildflowers where you live - hows about taking a drink in a flask and making it a long, long walk? as you say, tough life

The sun in trying its best here though autumn is beginning to show in the trees, it will be pretty spectacular in about three weeks or so - great for walking hereabouts too.

Im happy the mat is on its way

RE: Uncle Block's Writer's Block I

maybe this is why the race is on to get to other planets - they will promptly open social security offices there and close them down on earth - problems solved!

maybe this will also reduce the armies as most of the cannon fodder also comes from these high birth rate areas - just a thought

RE: Not Half Bad

Oh Im great thanks - hows bout you? - if your words didnt already say it haha - did you ever get one of those mats?

RE: Not Half Bad

WoW - one of your best methinks - I can so 'feel' this one

RE: III

yeah, I guess they have the censorship thing much worse in places like China

RE: III

shame, what was the essence of it? cos Im not entirely sure why Manc1's was pulled either

RE: why have my threads been pulled?

I agree - talk about it first hey

RE: Does anyone really enjoy domestic stuff.......cleaning etc?

my iron broke about two months since - as yet i havent replaced it - my whole wardrobe is planned around minimum ironing these days

It isnt a fond memory of doing all the ironing for three children for so many years - my rebellious nature is in its element at the moment now that they are grown and flown

well, ok, a teensy bit of me misses it all - but now I have the tee-shirt - hahahahaha

RE: horoscopes for real?

shame - that was a good one - am just sending you another

RE: Anybody know the answer

one - they shot the same one

RE: Anybody know the answer

Maybe he didnt stay long enough to eat any party snacks

RE: Happy Birthday Smiles.......

Happy Days Smiles

RE: horoscopes for real?

Chinese Wooden Horse at that

RE: horoscopes for real?

Hi BB

Thats what I like about it too, the exploring self knowledge area. The East West combinations are great - I am a Piscean Horse - Neigggghhhhh

RE: horoscopes for real?

You have mail

RE: Who Will Get The Answer?

explode?

RE: Who Will Get The Answer?

implode?

RE: Who Will Get The Answer?

erm........ King Neptune has lookouts for this kind of thing. They collect them all together from the whole world over and he builds pretty little houses with them for all our mermaid sisters