“God gave you a gift of 86,400
seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?”
William A. Ward
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
May 11, 2021
EVERY DAY
Every day every sort of thing happens. That's what good movies are good for. They can reveal so much about pretend and love. Relationships are all about pretend and love. Watch kids watch adults not watching kids. When they do they miss out on so much reveal. But when they do, when they really love each other, when they avoid pretend, they can see the love story - the reveal movie - of their lives.
“The secret of life isn’t what
happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.”
Norman Vincent Peale
Monday, May 10, 2021
BICYCLE
BUILT FOR TWO
As they made the bike, the bicycle built for two, the bike makers minds' were elsewhere. They didn’t imagine the couple, now grey, who would rode that bike together for 46 years now. They once told their kids those Saturday and Sunday rides kept them together all these years, but their kids like the bike makers -
Driving down the roads I see all these lines on the road. Right lane – left lane – some right down the middle. Then there are the off ramps and on ramps. Walking down the street, I see all these people on both sides of me. When to stop, when to listen, when to talk, when to move on. I guess those lines are hard to see at times.
“The best years of your life are
the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them
on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control
your own destiny.”