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WITandWISDOM(tm) - May 6, 2005 ISSN 1538-8794 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt Source: Carol's Thought for Today, http://www.kalama.com/~carola/ ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: A Mother Somebody said that a child is carried in its mother's womb for nine months. Somebody does not know that a child is carried in its mother's heart forever. Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby. Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, normal is history. Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct. Somebody never took a three-year-old shopping. Somebody said being a mother is boring. Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit. Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good." Somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee. Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices. Somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window. Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother. Somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math. Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first. Somebody doesn't have five children. Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books. Somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose. Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery. Somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten, wave good-bye as you leave her at the college dorm, or watch her walk down the aisle. Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back. Somebody never organized a giggling birthday sleepover with 12 friends. Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married. Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings. Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home. Somebody never had grandchildren. Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her. Somebody isn't a mother. Sooo....I send this with an "I love you, Mom!" to my mom and to all the Moms in my life!! :-) Submitted by Sharon Hamel ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: Readers of William Safire's "On Language" column in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE were asked to give sports- related definitions for common words: Superficial: A really good referee Beleaguered: Stuck in the semipros Hermit: Girl's baseball glove Saturnine: Baseball team that plays on weekends Truncate: Tailgate party given by a compact-car owner Wrinkle: A small hockey arena Haiku: Signal to center from a Japanese quarterback Source: Pulpit Supply, mailto:pulpit-supply-subscribe@strategicnetwork.org ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: Tidbits of Wit My friend admitted she was forty but she didn't say when. Our marriage was a love match pure and simple; she was pure and I was simple. Love is the feeling that you feel when you feel a feeling that you never felt before. Life can be marvelous. Try not to miss it! Source: Smile a Day Newsletter (c), http://www.net153.com/best.htm ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Legislature is flush with good ideas. Sen. Al Lawson's latest involves a way to pay for wastewater treatment and help small towns and counties upgrade their sewer systems. The Democrat from Tallahassee is proposing a 2-cent-per-roll tax on toilet paper. "We've got 17 million people in this state and all of them can contribute to protecting our underground water supply," he said. Source: USA Today, http://www.usatoday.com