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daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
I ran across this poem on the web, and I think it really has a good message for everyone: Slow Dance
Have you ever watched kids On a merry-go-round? Or listened to the rain Slapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight? Or gazed at the sun into the fading night? You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. ~ Do you run through each day On the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply? When the day is done Do you lie in your bed With the next hundred chores Running through your head? You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. ~ Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow? And in your haste, Not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, Let a good friendship die Cause you never had time To call and say,"Hi" You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is short. The music won't last. ~ When you run so fast to get somewhere You miss half the fun of getting there. When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away. Life is not a race. Do take it slower Hear the music Before the song is over It's stop and smell the roses put in a fresh new way.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
I've always been impressed by this summary of life's journey:
When they add up your points on your dying day, the day your last river is crossed, and they give you a point for each good deed that you did a point for each time that you flossed, and points for your gifts to the sick and afflicted and your service to church and the school, and they take away points for the cat when you kicked it and the times that you peed in the pool, and it's all added up, the plusses and minuses, your deeds and your great rectitude, with a penalty for the time that you cleared your sinuses when you mom had a mouthful of food, and they take off a point for the friends you estranged, the pals that you suddenly dropped, and they give you a bonus for the diapers you changed and the messes you cheerfully mopped, and your work on committees task forces and boards and your work as a scholar and poet, and they take away points for those great big awards that you didn't deserve, and you know it, but in the final ****ysis, when all that is hidden is seen, just one thing matters, and that is this: was his or her underwear clean? GARRISON KEILLOR |
rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
Aaaargh! The darned board software did it again! Censored "a*n*a*l*ysis!"!
I'm such a pottymouth! |
daffydoug Eternal Order Look mom! I've got 14077 Posts |
It'll get ya' every time!
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
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