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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:32:52 GMT -5
© 2008 by LadySkyeFyre
When you learn to dance, it is helpful to know the steps. The first faltering steps of any dance are done awkwardly. They are not graceful. There is beauty, but only a mother for her child would realize it. However, when a person keeps at their learning and continues through the awkward phase, they will eventually reach a place where grace becomes a part of what they do. These are the same steps that are taken no matter what you are doing whether it is pursuing a higher degree, making a quilt for the first time, painting your first picture or baking a cake.
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:34:50 GMT -5
Autumn is over the long leaves that love us, And over the mice in the barley sheaves; Yellow the leaves of the rowan above us, And yellow the wet wild-strawberry leaves.
The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.
.....The Falling of the Leaves by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:34:55 GMT -5
How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright, The effluence from yon distant mountain's head, which, strewn with snow smooth as the sky can shed, Shines like another sun--on mortal sight Uprisen, as if to check approaching Night, And all her twinkling stars. Who now would tread, If so he might, yon mountain's glittering head-- Terrestrial, but a surface, by the flight Of sad mortality's earth-sullying wing, Unswept, unstained? Nor shall the aerial Powers Dissolve that beauty, destined to endure, White, radiant, spotless, exquisitely pure, Through all vicissitudes, till genial Spring Has filled the laughing vales with welcome flowers.
.....November 1 by William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:36:40 GMT -5
She walks--the lady of my delight-- ...A shepherdess of sheep. Her flocks are thought. She keeps them white; ...She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, ...And folds them in for sleep.
She roams maternal hills and bright, ...Dark valleys safe and deep. Her dreams are innocent at night; ...The chastest stars may peep. She walks--the lady of my delight-- ...A shepherdess of sheep.
.....The Lady of the Lambs by Alice Meynell (1847-1922)
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:40:35 GMT -5
Two cowboys come upon an Indian lying on his stomach with his ear to the ground.
One of the cowboys stops and says to the other, "You see that Indian?"
"Yeah," says the other cowboy.
"Look," says the first one, "he's listening to the ground. He can hear things for miles in any direction."
Just then the Indian looks up. "Covered wagon," he says, "about two miles away. Have two horses, one brown, one white. Man, woman, child, household effects in wagon."
"Incredible!" says the cowboy to his friend. "This Indian knows how far away they are, how many horses, what color they are, who is in the wagon, and what is in the wagon. Amazing!"
The Indian looks up and says, "Ran over me about a half hour ago."
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:41:10 GMT -5
"I've just had the most awful time," said a boy to his friends. "First I got angina pectoris, then arteriosclerosis. Just as I was recovering, I got psoriasis. They gave me hypodermics, and to top it all, tonsillitis was followed by appendectomy."
"Wow! How did you pull through?" sympathized his friends.
"I don't know," the boy replied. "It was the toughest spelling test I ever had."
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:43:08 GMT -5
A man walked into a Doctor's office. "What do you have?" the receptionist asked.
"Shingles," he replied.
She told him to sit down. Soon a nurse called him and asked, "What do you have?"
"Shingles," he replied.
She took his blood pressure, weight, and complete medical history. Then she took him to a room and told him to remove all of his clothes. After a few minutes the Doctor came in and asked, "What do you have?"
"Shingles," the man told him.
The Doctor looked him up and down and said, "Where?"
"Out on the truck. Where do you want me to unload them?"
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:47:00 GMT -5
A New York man was forced to take a day off from work to appear for a minor traffic summons. He grew increasingly restless as he waited hour after endless hour for his case to be heard.
When his name was called late in the afternoon, he stood before the judge, only to hear that court would be adjourned for the next day and he would have to return the next day.
"What for?" he snapped at the judge.
His honor, equally irked by a tedious day and sharp query roared, "Twenty dollars contempt of court. That's why!"
Then, noticing the man checking his wallet, the judge relented. "That's all right. You don't have to pay now."
The man replied, "I'm just seeing if I have enough for two more words."
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:48:17 GMT -5
A driver tucked a note under the windshield wiper of his automobile saying, "I've circled this block for 20 minutes. I'm late for an appointment, and if I don't park in this no-parking zone I'll lose my job. Forgive us our trespasses."
When he came back, he found a parking ticket and this note: "I've circled this block for 20 years, and if I don't give you a ticket, I'll lose my job. Lead us not into temptation."
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:50:24 GMT -5
Ed Miliband walks into a bank to cash a cheque. “Good morning”, says Ed, “could you please cash this cheque for me?”
Cashier: “It would be my pleasure Sir, but could you please show me some identification?”
Miliband: “Truthfully… I did not bring my ID with me as I didn’t think there was any need to. But hang on! I’m Ed Miliband, Leader of the Opposition and of the Labour Party!!!”
Cashier: "Yes Sir, I know who you are, but with all the regulations and monitoring of the banks because of impostors and forgers etc, I must insist on seeing some identification”.
Miliband: “Just ask any of the customers here at the bank who I am and they will tell you. Everybody knows who I am!”
Cashier: “I’m sorry Sir, but these are the bank rules and I must follow them”.
Miliband: “I am urging you please, to cash this cheque for me”.
Cashier: “Look Sir, this is what we can do. One day Colin Montgomery came into the bank without any ID. To prove he was Colin Montgomery he pulled out his putter and putted a ball along the floor and into a small cup. With that sort of skill we knew it was Colin Montgomery and we cashed his cheque. On another occasion, Andy Murray came in without any ID. He pulled out his tennis racquet and lobbed a tennis ball straight into my teacup with such a spectacular shot that we all knew it was Andy Murray and we cashed his cheque. So Sir, what can you do to prove that it is you and only you, as the Leader of the Opposition?”
Ed Miliband stood there thinking and thinking and then finally says, “To be honest, there is nothing that comes to my mind. I can’t think of a single thing that I’m any good at.”
Cashier: “Will it be large or small notes you require Mr Miliband?”
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Post by monami on Feb 7, 2015 21:53:12 GMT -5
When the family was moving cross-country the Mom and Dad each needed to drive one of their two cars. Their eight-year old son worriedly asked, "How will we keep from getting separated?"
"We'll drive slowly so that one car can follow the other," the Dad reassured him.
"Yes, but what if we DO get separated?" the son persisted.
"Well, then I guess we'll never see each other again," the Dad answered back jokingly.
"Okay," the boy said. "I'm riding with Mom."
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Post by monami on Feb 9, 2015 17:26:19 GMT -5
Thought of the Day: Sir Richard F. Burton...The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Thought of the Day
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Post by monami on Feb 9, 2015 17:26:45 GMT -5
I dare not ask a kiss, ...I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, ...I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share ...Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air ...That lately kissed thee.
.....To Electra by Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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Post by monami on Feb 9, 2015 17:27:14 GMT -5
The night has a thousand eyes, ...And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies ...With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes, ...And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies ...When love is done.
.....The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Francis William Bourdillon (1852-1921)
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Post by monami on Feb 9, 2015 17:28:13 GMT -5
© 2008 by LadySkyeFyre
You might have had a lifelong fear of the opposite sex. You cannot seem to find yourself in a relationship that seems to satisfy the other partner, and they all seem to dump you quicker than they would a load of hot rocks. Well, we would say the key words in the above sentence is that you are tying to satisfy another. You cannot make another person happy. You can only make yourself happy. Try doing that for a period of one week. This does not mean that you step all over other people to ensure your own happiness. It means you pay more attention to your own needs.
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