BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2006

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JUNE 14th , 2006

TODAY'S THOUGHT

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

TODAY’S ACTION

Look for an opportunity to make a positive difference

TODAY’S QUOTE

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not; a sense of humor was given to us to console us for what we are

Mack McGinnis

HAPPY WEDNESDAY !

Each day this week it has warmed up a little. Today was one of those perfect sunny blue sky kind of days. But we do need rain. I’ve started watering the flowers around the house and will continue to do so til we get a good soaking.

It’s ‘Over the Hump’ day and it will be a busy one at work. Yesterday I put in one of those long 10 hour days, hopefully today will only be 8.

Remember….Beautiful music filling your home and car keeps away the bad news.

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

TODAY IS PIG CALLERS DAY

Pig calling was once just entertainment at county fairs where you might win a cherry pie for your skills. Today, you can win the Pig Calling World Championship and end up on the late night talk shows. So, do you need to own a pig to be a world class pig caller? No, and here's the trick. Combine the best-known pig calling sound "Soooey" with your own unique twist - and practice, practice, practice.

Also warn the neighbors

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Flag Day - On this day in 1777, the Continental Congress resolved that the Stars and Stripes flag would be the national flag of the U.S

Our Nation's First Flag

The colors of the vertical stripes WHITE signifies purity and innocence, RED, hardiness & valour, and BLUE, signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice. The star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun.

1834 - While thoughts of summer sun and sand are upon us, we pause to take a short lesson about one of mankind’s greatest inventions. Isaac Fischer, Jr. of Springfield, Vermont decided that it was time to patent sandpaper. Mr. Fischer’s sandpaper changed the coarse of history didn’t it? Now, back to work!

1847: Bunson invents a gas burner

1948: TV Guide is first published

1953 - Elvis Presley graduated from L.C. Humes High School in Memphis, TN. Within three years, the truck driver-turned-singer had his first number-one record with Heartbreak Hotel

TODAY’S SMILE

BAD DAY?

I have a friend who filled his car with gas at a self-service gas station. After he had paid and driven away, he realized that he had left the gas cap on top of his car. He stopped and looked and, sure enough, it was lost.

Well, he thought for a second and realized that other people must have done the same thing, and that it was worth going back to look by the side of the road since even if he couldn't find his own gas cap, he might be able to find one that fit.

Sure enough, he hadn't been searching long when he found a gas cap. He tried it on, and it went into place with a satisfying click.

"Great," he thought, "I lost my gas cap, but I found another one that fits. And this one's even better because it locks...

The Monkey's Disgrace

Author Unknown

Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree,

Discussing things that are said to be;

Said one to the others,

"Now listen you two,

There's a certain rumor that can't be true:

That man descended from our noble race,

The very idea is a disgrace!

"No monkey ever deserted his wife,

Starved her babies, and ruined her life;

And you've never known a mother monk,

To leave her babies with others to bunk,

Or pass them on from one to the other,

Till they scarcely know who is their mother.

"And another thing you'll never see,

A monk build a fence round a coconut tree,

And let the coconuts go to waste,

Forbidding all other monks to taste;

Why, if I put a fence around a tree,

Starvation will force you to steal from me!

Here's another thing a monk won't do:

Go out at night and get in a stew,

Or use a gun, a club or a knife, T

o take some other dumb monkey's life!

Yes, they can theorize and they can discuss but,

brother, he didn't descend from us!

TODAY’S WORD

kludge • \KLOOJ\

noun : a system and especially a computer system made up of poorly matched components

TODAY’S REFLECTION

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin.

Matthew 6:28

Jesus said that the proper focus is the antidote for anxiety at any age. He told His followers to look at the birds and flowers, which are not defined by what they do, and yet God cares for them

You are one of a kind—designed to glorify God as only you can.

From Our Daily Bread

TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

Strawberries should be ripe now

7 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 !!!

Be Blessed !!!

MY HOMEPAGE

I believe we should live ‘ON THE BRIGHT SIDE’

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