BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MARCH 20TH, 2006

TODAY'S THOUGHT

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings

Hodding Carter Jr.

TODAY'S ACTION

Listen for and enjoy the laughter of children

TODAY'S QUOTE

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless

Mother Teresa

HAPPY MONDAY! AND HAPPY SPRING !

We won’t have Spring here this week – weather wise it will be in the mid 30’s all week with a little snow sprinkled here and there. Our tulip , hyacinth and daffodil leaves are popping up out of the ground, but they won’t be blooming quite yet.

I talked with DS#1 yesterday and they had mid 50’s in central Ohio, so we know in a few weeks it’ll be here too!

Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !

TODAY IS...IT’S SPRING DAY

It's the vernal equinox - the time of year that symbolizes the change to spring. With the sun positioned right over the equator, the day and night are about equal in length around the world. (Equinox means "equal night".) From now until September, there will be longer and warmer days in the Northern Hemisphere, so.... Spring has sprung!

TODAY'S TRIVIA

Spring begins today at 1:26 p.m. EST in the Northern Hemisphere; autumn begins in the Southern Hemisphere.

Today is the day pigeons return to courthouse in Ft. Wayne, Indiana

1852: Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published. The book sold 300,000 copies in its first year. It was the first book to sell 1,000,000 copies

1896: The first computing scale company, Dayton Scales, was incorporated in Dayton, Ohio

1961: Ricky Nelson recorded Hello Mary Lou

TODAY'S SMILE

Sam Rosenberg decides to take the opportunity while his wife is away to paint the toilet seat. The wife comes home sooner than expected, sits, and gets the seat stuck to her rear. She is understandably distraught about this and asks her husband to drive her to the doctor. She puts on a large overcoat so as to cover the stuck seat, and they go.

When they get to the doctor's, the man lifts his wife's coat to show their predicament. The man asks, "Doctor Goldberg, have you ever seen anything like this before?" "Well, yes," the doctor replies, but never framed

one more…

One employee said to another, "When the boss' son starts work here next week, remember that he's not supposed to have any special privileges or authority. Treat him just like you would anyone, who is due to take over the whole company in a year or two

TODAY'S WORD

san·guine adjective.

1.a. Color. Of the color of blood; red. b. Of a healthy, reddish color; ruddy: a sanguine complexion. 2. Archaic. a. Having blood as the dominant humor in terms of medieval physiology. b. Having the temperament and ruddy complexion formerly thought to be characteristic of a person dominated by this humor; passionate. 3. Cheerfully confident; optimistic

TODAY'S REFLECTION

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews 11:1

Belief is a truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

Joseph Fort Newton

TODAY'S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC

Never put your hand out farther than you can draw it back again.

Irish proverb

90 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your Heart

Psalm 37:4

I Love You All !!!