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Point to Ponder: 03/08/10

Randy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:00:53 +0000

“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be deprived of a crutch.”

- James Baldwin

Point to Ponder: 03/01/10

Randy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:00:47 +0000

If you watched The Vancouver Olympics, you know this is Canadian skater Joannie Rochette, whose indomitable will and courage provided us with a fresh perspective on this week’s Point-To-Ponder.

“Often men can see farther through a tear than through a telescope.” - Lee J. Muir

That’s Not My Mickey

Randy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:35 +0000

While on vacation in Florida, it happened again. My brother played a video of the Ting Tings for my daughter and me, and immediately, as before, I thought to myself, “this is very familiar.” A few edits later…and voila! Another mashed-up single for your MP3 player.

Point to Ponder: 02/22/10

Randy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:59:08 +0000

“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruitation.”

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

(This is an interesting quote, especially considering the author uses the word fruitation which does not exist in the two dictionaries that I checked, and that includes dictionary.com. Perhaps if we substitute the word “growth,” the paragraph may be read a bit more correctly, though I suspect the meaning we derive will have changed little.)

Point to Ponder: 02/15/10

Randy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:00:45 +0000

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.”

- Victor Hugo

Point to Ponder: 02/08/10

Randy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:59:17 +0000

“Statistically, the probablility of any one of us being here is so small that you’d think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.”

- Lewis Thomas, The Lives of A Cell: notes of A Biology Watcher

Point to Ponder: 02/01/10

Randy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:07:08 +0000

“You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.”

- J. Askenberg

Point to Ponder: 01/25/2010

Randy — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:53:30 +0000

The soul’s journey, is a sole journey, but encouragement from the sidelines is strongly encouraged, and that is why I’m cheering for YOU!

- R.J.S.

Point to Ponder: 01/18/10

Randy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:49:32 +0000

“Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. “

- Wayne Dyer

Point to Ponder: 01/11/10

Randy — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:40:56 +0000

“The power that makes the grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”

- Anizia Yezierska, Red Ribbon on a White Horse