SWL
January 17, 2009
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Teacher
January 16, 2009
“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth.”
- Cicero
I think of my great teachers almost everyday. The one’s who made learning fun and the one’s who could see the good things in me. Somewhere I learned
to show up, sit up close and pay attention, it helped to have an awesome teacher. Those three rules even got me through college. There’s a somewhat new idea
that not everyone has to go to a four year University, I say we need to focus on letting young people know their dreams are possible no matter what.
JMD
A friend
January 14, 2009
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Present Darkness
January 13, 2009
“In order for the light to shine so brightly,
the darkness must be present.”
- Francis Bacon
Someone once said, the better question to ask is why do good things happen to bad people
and not why do bad things happen to good people. Makes sense to me. JMD
The 3 R’s
January 12, 2009
“You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightaway follow it with a criticism.”
- Mark Twain
Follow the 3 R’s
Respect for self
Respect for others
and Respect for all your actions.
- Dalai Lama
Resentment
January 11, 2009
“Don’t carry a grudge.
While you’re carrying the grudge, the other guy’s out
dancing.”
- Buddy Hackett
Quiet
January 10, 2009
“If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.”
- Judith Martin “Miss Manners”
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
- My mom
Growing up with rules requiring me to be polite taught me how to bite my tongue. As a result, I am sometimes called Jamie, the silent one. On a bad day when
I’d speak out of turn, it was clearly explained how I had opened my mouth and inserted my foot. For these lessons I am most grateful. JMD
Sing
January 9, 2009
“I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry.
No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t we?”
- Rose Kennedy
Glory
January 8, 2009
“Our greatest glory is not in never
failing, but in rising up every time we
fail.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action
January 8, 2009
“When thinking won’t cure fear, action will.”
- W. Clement Stone
