REBUILD YOUR LIFE QUOTES

By Terry Orr

Here are some inspirational quotes that can help put everything into perspective:

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you can. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.  Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ~ Zig Ziglar

The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. ~ Michael LeBeuf

Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. ~ Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t limit yourself to the possible when you can reach for the impossible. Kim Trinh

One’s best success comes after his greatest disappointments. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

 (Photos from Google) 

A Different Perspective

Sharing an email

Maxine’s Perspective of 2012

By Terry Orr

(Thanks for the email Toni)

As we progress into 2013, I want to thank you all for your educational e-mails over the past year.  I am totally screwed up now and have little chance of recovery.

I can no longer open a bathroom door without using a paper towel, nor let the waitress put lemon slices in my ice water without worrying about the bacteria on the lemon peel.

I can't sit down on a hotel bedspread because I can only imagine what has happened on it since it was last washed.

I have trouble shaking hands with someone who has been driving because the number one pastime while driving alone is picking one's nose.

Eating a little snack sends me on a guilt trip because I can only imagine how many gallons of trans fats I have consumed over the years.

I can't touch any woman's handbag for fear she has placed it on the floor of a public toilet.

I must send my special thanks for the email about rat poo in the glue on envelopes because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.

ALSO, now I have to scrub the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I can't have a drink in a bar because I fear I'll wake up in a bathtub full of ice with my kidneys gone.

I can't eat at KFC because their chickens are actually horrible mutant freaks with no eyes, feet or feathers.

I can't use cancer-causing deodorants even though I smell like a water buffalo on a hot day.

Thanks to you I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward an e-mail to seven of my friends and make a wish within five minutes.

Because of your concern, I no longer drink Coca Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I no longer buy fuel without taking someone along to watch the car, so a serial killer doesn't crawl in my back seat when I'm filling up.

I no longer use Cling Wrap in the microwave because it causes seven different types of cancer.

And thanks for letting me know I can't boil a cup of water in the microwave anymore because it will blow up in my face, disfiguring me for life.

I no longer go to the cinema because I could be pricked with a needle infected with AIDS when I sit down.

I no longer go to shopping centers because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me..

And I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number for which I will get a huge phone bill with calls to Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore and Uzbekistan ..

Thanks to you I can't use anyone's toilet but mine because a big black snake could be lurking under the seat and cause me instant death when it bites my butt.

And thanks to your great advice I can't ever pick up a dime coin dropped in the car park because it was probably placed there by a sex molester waiting to grab me as I bend over.

I can't do any gardening because I'm afraid I'll get bitten by the Violin Spider and my hand will fall off.

If you don't send this e-mail to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhea will land on your head at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow afternoon, and the fleas from 120 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this will occur because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbors ex mother-in-law's second husband's cousin's best friend's beautician!

Oh, and by the way...

A German scientist from Argentina, after a lengthy study, has discovered that people with insufficient brain activity read their e-mails with their hand on the mouse

Don't bother taking it off now, it's too late.

P. S. I now keep my toothbrush in the living room, because I was told by e-mail that water splashes over 6 ft. out of the toilet.

NOW YOU HAVE YOURSELF A VERY GOOD DAY and a MERRY CHRISTMAS TOO!

Trying to put 9/11 into Perspective

As I sit here reflecting on the past decade since that horrible Tuesday morning - wondering what we have accomplished in making the world a safer place for all mankind.

What is the metric we use to measure how well or poorly we have done?

Does an all voluntary military force really make a difference in how they are treated or cared for upon their return home (alive or dead)?

Was/are Iraq and Afghanistan really necessary and worth it?

Have we Americans really taken a positive leadership role in peace and brining to justice those responsible for the events leading to, the act and events thereafter?

How do we put 9/11 into perspective – minus all the emotions? 

I have watch and read countless stories, interviews, studies, and reviews during the past decade.  

I worry for my grandchildren and wonder what kind of life they will have - clearly not the one I spend the past five decades supporting.

Is it possible that America can right itself?

Which Hand?

Today we celebrate Left Handed folks.  These are extraordinary people, I say this because there is only about 10 to 15% of the population that are left handed. After doing some researching you would think that left handed folks are afflicted with a disease.  Back in the old days people used to think being left handed was evil.  I have been told that I should have been left handed, but every time I went to use my left hand my mother would stop me.  If you could see my handwriting you would know something was wrong.  My friends at work would tell me I should have become a doctor instead of a nurse, because nobody could read my writing.  I would get U's (unsatisfactory) in penmanship, and one summer my father made me spend the whole summer writing, but still didn’t help. 

There are a few theories on why folks are left handed.  There are some that think the left hand was closest to the mouth while in the womb.  There are others who think that left handers have a little more testosterone than right handed folks.  Then there is the twin, or vanishing twin theory where one is right handed the other left handed.  Being left handed is definitely genetic.  Researchers believe they have located a gene that causes one to be left-handed.  The way the brain works is incredibly complex, but this simplified explanation will give you some understanding of where our left-hand dominance comes from. The brain is "cross-wired" so that the left hemisphere controls the right handed side of the body and vice-versa and hand dominance is connected with brain dominance on the opposite side - which is why we say that only left-handers are in their right minds!

Being left handed in a right handed world is not an easy task.  Southpaws, as they are sometimes called, adapt quite well.  Even though, there are still some products made especially for left handers.  Tools such as scissors, knives, musical instruments, gaming devices even guns.  One of the more difficult tasks for a left hander is writing.  As you write, your hand drags across the paper.  However for left handed writers, this would cause their hand to drag across the wet in, and smearing it.  That is why you will notice the unusual way they bend their hand while writing.

There are many famous left handed folks.  Some think that being left handed is an indicator of high intelligence.  In fact, of the past 7 presidents, 4 have been left handed, including President Obama.  Other left handed presidents include:  James A. Garfield, Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

To find more left handed folks visit this site: http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html

So today, as we celebrate left handers don’t think of them as strange, sinister, or handicapped, they have a unique ability to function in a different way.  Why not spend the day trying to do tasks with your left hand to fully appreciate their abilities.