Month: August 2004

  • Think

    Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Forgiveness

    Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.Oscar Wilde

  • You betcha

    My friend Tommy was talking with his son about the final T-ball game of the season.  This is the game where the kids play the parents.Grady said, “We’re gonna beat you guys.”“Why is that?” Tommy asked.To which Grady replied, “Because you haven’t practiced.”Why can’t life continue to be that simple?  We always try to complicate…

  • Well adjusted

    A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.Alexander Hamilton

  • Love

    Love is not blind – it sees more, not less.  But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon

  • The 23rd-1/2 Psalm

    The Lord is my sponsor!  I shall not want.He maketh me to go to many meetings.He leadeth me to sit back, relax, and listen with an open mind.He restored my soul, my sanity, and my health.He leadeth me in the paths of sobriety, serenity, and fellowship for mine own sake.He teacheth me to think, to…

  • The telephone game

    A new young monk arrives at the monastery.  He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand.  He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript.  So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to…