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WIT & WISDOM - November 19, 1998 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. - Carl W. Buechner [1] ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: LETTING GO - Author Unknown (From a Charles Swindoll book) To let go doesn't mean to stop caring; It means I can't do it for someone else. To let go is not to cut myself off.... It's the realization that I can't control another..... To let go is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences. To let go is to admit powerlessness, which means the outcome is not in my hands. To let go is not to try and change or blame another, I can only change myself. To let go is not to care for, but to care about. To let go is not to fix, but to be supportive. To let go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being. To let go is not to be in the middle arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own outcomes. To let go is not to be protective, It is to permit another to face reality. To let go is not to deny, but to accept. To let go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but to search out my own shortcomings and correct them. To let go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day as it comes and cherish the moment. To let go is not to criticize and regulate anyone, but to try to become what I dream I can be. To let go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To let go is to fear less and love more. [2] ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: I was flying from San Francisco to Los Angeles. By the time we took off, there had been a 45-minute delay and everybody on board was ticked. Unexpectedly, we stopped in Sacramento on the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be another 45-minute delay, and if we wanted to get off the aircraft, we would reboard in 30 minutes. Everybody got off the plane except one gentleman who was blind. I noticed him as I walked by and could tell he had flown before because his Seeing Eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of him throughout the entire flight. I could also tell he had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached him and, calling him by name, said, "Keith, we're in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?" Keith replied, "No thanks, but maybe my dog would like to stretch his legs." Picture this All the people in the gate area came to a completely quiet standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with the Seeing Eye dog! The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, they also were trying to change airlines! - Author Unknown [3] ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: You may have heard of an incident that came out of the transportation strike in New York City a few years ago. Certain heavily traveled streets, one of them Madison Avenue, were made one-way. A man who was not completely in possession of all his faculties got onto Madison Avenue going the wrong way. An officer stopped him and inquired, "Where are you going?" "I don't know," the man replied. "But I must be late, because everybody's coming back." By George E. Vandeman, Signs of the Times, February 1972 [4] ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: A four-hundred-year-old tree crashed to the forest floor. Over the centuries it had been struck by lightning fourteen times, braved great windstorms, and even defied an earthquake. In the end, however, it was killed by little beetles. Boring under the bark, they chewed away its mighty fibers until the giant of the forest lay broken on the ground. - Bill Tucker with Pat Maxwell, Living a Power-filled Life [5] ~~~~~~~ CONTRIBUTORS: [1] (Monday Antidote [2] (Sue Archer) [3] (Carol, Gary Wimer) [4] (Dale Galusha [5] (Bob Edwards) |