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QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 13, 2020

Destiny is a mysterious thing, sometimes enfolding a miracle in a leaky basket of catastrophe.
Francisco Goldman

When Ribble was closing down and moving out of town in the early 1990s
redundancies , sackings , and lay offs became came thick and fast , month
by month . As the troops dwindled poetry on toilet walls was commonplace
this was wrote in large letters and couldn't have been truer , some words have
been changed to protect the innocent

If you graft and do your best you'll
be up the road with all the rest
but if you skive and muck about
youll stay to see the job right out


by one who has skived

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 14, 2020

Don't wish for it to happen.
Don't wish for it not to happen.
Just watch it happen.
Let the wonder of life unfold.
Susan Jeffers

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 15, 2020

There is great adventure in the unknown that propels us to discover powerful parts of ourselves that we didn't know were there.
Susan Jeffers

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 16, 2020

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 17, 2020

The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 18, 2020

I feel a responsibility as a scientist who knows the great value of a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, and the progress made possible by such a philosophy, progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought.
Richard Feynman

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 19, 2020

When it starts to rain...let it!

Unknown

Never give up on yourself...........

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 20, 2020

When I un-set my heart upon something I breath more deeply and feel more free. Narrow escape.
Barry Stevens

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 21, 2020

Instead of seeing the rug being pulled out from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
Tom Crum

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 22, 2020

Logic is death to that part of you that is the miracle maker.
Stuart Wilde

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 23, 2020

Barn’s burnt down—now I can see the moon.
Zen Master Masahide

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 24, 2020

As for the battle that ends tonight, I do believe as my father once said, that no matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out.
Al Gore

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 25, 2020

Bad is how we see those experiences whose part in our growth we do not yet understand.
Wingate Paine

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 26, 2020

Freedom is like a gem which shines with equal brilliance in all surroundings; it gleams as well in mud as on velvet.
Alan W. Watts

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
May 27, 2020

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms--to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Viktor Frankl

A man and his dog were walking along a road.
The man was enjoying the scenery when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.
He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead for years.
He wondered where the road was leading them.
After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of the road.
It looked like fine marble.
At the top of a long hill, it was broken by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.
When he was standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the arch that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate looked like pure gold.

He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as he got closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.
When he was close enough, he called out,
‘Excuse me, where are we?’
‘This is Heaven, sir,’ the man answered.
Would you happen to have some water?’ the man asked.
Of course, sir. Come right in, and I’ll have some ice water brought right up’.
The man gestured, and the gate began to open.
‘Can my friend,’ gesturing toward his dog, ‘come in, too?’ the traveller asked.
‘ I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t accept pets.’
The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and continued the way he had been going with his dog.
After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came to a dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never been closed.
There was no fence.
As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree and reading a book.
‘Excuse me!’ he called to the man. ‘Do you have any water?’
‘Yeah, sure, there’s a pump over there, come on in..’
‘How about my friend here?’ the traveller gestured to the dog.
There should be a bowl by the pump.’
They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned hand pump with a bowl beside it.
The traveller filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then he gave some to the dog.
When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was standing by the tree.
‘ What do you call this place?’ the traveller asked.
‘This is Heaven,’ he answered.
‘Well, that’s confusing,’ the traveller said.
‘ The man down the road said that was Heaven, too.’
‘Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope. That’s hell.’
‘Doesn’t it make you mad for them to use your name like that?’
‘No, we’re just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave their best friends behind.’...