Happy Our Day
Ray Mitchell
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here it is December already, the last month of the year, how time flies. Usually I start the month of with a list of U. S. holidays, mostly with tongue in cheek, but I think December deserves better, for this is the month that millions of us all over the world celebrate life. It is a time for reflection and hope and maybe if we all committed ourselves to peace on earth and goodwill towards man our hope for a better world might be realized.
So to each and all I wish that your Advent, Boxing Day, Christmas, Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Festivus, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Saint Nicholas Day, and Santa Lucia Day provide you warmth and comfort. If I missed a holiday special to you I am sorry.
How about us all declaring our own holiday and use it to celebrate our friendship with each other. We can do it without regard to where we are, what we believe, our ages or anything else that would define us as different from each other, for it is our humanity that truly defines us and we are brothers and sisters. Maybe if we embrace each other, even from the distances that separate us, we will demonstrate how goodwill is the foundation that must be laid if we are to have peace on earth.
Love,
Ray
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I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey.
I wish you peace in the world in which you live...
More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile.
Robert A. Ward
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After spending 3-1/2 hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the Department of Motor Vehicles, I stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for my son.
I brought my selection - a baseball bat - to the cash register.
"Cash or charge?" the clerk asked.
"Cash," I snapped. Then apologizing for my rudeness, I explained, "I've spent the afternoon at the motor-vehicle bureau."
"Shall I gift wrap the bat?" the clerk asked sweetly. "Or are you going back there?"
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Elections: Things that are held to see if the polls were right.
Yasha
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I used to work in technical support for a 24/7 call center. One day, I got a call from an individual who asked what hours the call center was open. I told him, "The number you dialed is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
He responded, "Is that Eastern or Pacific time"?
Wanting to end the call quickly, I said, "Uh, Pacific."
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“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed.”
Ray Goforth
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You are no longer "cool" when .....
- You find yourself listening to talk radio.
- You daughter says she got pierced and you look at her ears.
- The pattern on your shorts and couch match.
- You fondly remember your powder blue leisure suit.
- Your wife buys a flannel nighty and you find that sexy.
- You turn down free tickets to a rock concert because you have to work the next day.
- When jogging is something you do to your memory.
- Rocking all night means dozing off in your rocking chair.
- Getting a little action means your prune juice is working.
- All the cars behind you flash their headlights.
- You bought your first car for the same price you paid for your son's new running shoes.
- You actually ASK for your father's advice.
- You don't know how to operate a fax machine.
- When someone mentions SURFING you picture waves and a surf board.
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Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook.
It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.
Dalai Lama
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Driving to a new restaurant, Margaret took several wrong turns. When she finally found the right road, she asked her husband, "Why didn't you tell me I was lost?"
"I thought you knew where you were going," he replied. "You always know where you're going when I'm driving."
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
Henry David Thoreau
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A SECRETARY'S RULES FOR WORK
1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.
2. If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. Or even better, hover behind me, advising me at every keystroke.
3. Always leave without telling anyone where you're going. It gives me a chance to be creative when someone asks where you are.
4. If my arms are full of papers, boxes, books, or supplies, don't open the door for me. I need to learn how to function as a paraplegic and opening doors with no arms is good training in case I should ever be injured and lose all use of my limbs.
5. If you give me more than one job to do, don't tell me which is priority. I am psychic.
6. Do your best to keep me late. I adore this office and really have nowhere to go or anything to do. I have no life beyond work.
7. If a job I do pleases you, keep it a secret. If that gets out, it could mean a promotion.
8. If you don't like my work, tell everyone. I like my name to be popular in conversations. I was born to be whipped.
9. If you have special instructions for a job, don't write them down. In fact, save them until the job is almost done. No use confusing me with useful information.
10. Never introduce me to the people you're with. I have no right to know anything. In the corporate food chain, I am plankton. When you refer to them later, my shrewd deductions will identify them.
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace!
Where there is hatred let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.
Ray Mitchell
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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