I was thinking about how a status symbol of today
is those cell phones that everyone has clipped on.
I can't afford one, so I'm wearing my garage door opener.
Now everyone thinks that I'm cool, too.
I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans!
I was thinking about old age and decided that it is
when you still have something on the ball
but you are just too tired to bounce it.
I thought about making a fitness movie for folks my age and call it, "Pumping Rust".
I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease....
that's when your chest is falling into your drawers!
You know when people see a cat's litter box,
they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?"
Just once I wanted to say, "No, it's for company!"
Employment application blanks always ask who is to be notified in case of an emergency.
I think you should write, "A Good Doctor!"
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office?
What are we supposed to do . . . write to these people?
Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps
so the mail carriers could look for them while they delivered the mail?
Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?
Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use,
the bubbles are always white?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with the hopes
that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner,
then reach down, pick it up, examine it,
then put it down to give their vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end you first try?
Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup
is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
Why do old men wear their pants higher than younger men?
How come we never hear any "father-in-law" jokes?
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more
as they get older then it dawned on me,
they were cramming for their finals.
Contributed by Carolyn Richards
is those cell phones that everyone has clipped on.
I can't afford one, so I'm wearing my garage door opener.
Now everyone thinks that I'm cool, too.
I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans!
I was thinking about old age and decided that it is
when you still have something on the ball
but you are just too tired to bounce it.
I thought about making a fitness movie for folks my age and call it, "Pumping Rust".
I have gotten that dreaded furniture disease....
that's when your chest is falling into your drawers!
You know when people see a cat's litter box,
they always say, "Oh, have you got a cat?"
Just once I wanted to say, "No, it's for company!"
Employment application blanks always ask who is to be notified in case of an emergency.
I think you should write, "A Good Doctor!"
Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office?
What are we supposed to do . . . write to these people?
Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps
so the mail carriers could look for them while they delivered the mail?
Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?
Why is it that no matter what color of bubble bath you use,
the bubbles are always white?
Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with the hopes
that something new to eat will have materialized?
Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner,
then reach down, pick it up, examine it,
then put it down to give their vacuum one more chance?
Why is it that no plastic garbage bag will open from the end you first try?
Is it true that the only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup
is how close to the road the stuff is placed?
Why do old men wear their pants higher than younger men?
How come we never hear any "father-in-law" jokes?
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more
as they get older then it dawned on me,
they were cramming for their finals.
Contributed by Carolyn Richards
Soundtrack: The Entertainer (Sting)
What if the question is not,
“why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be”,
but “why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am”?
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer
“why am I so infrequently the person I really want to be”,
but “why do I so infrequently want to be the person I really am”?
~Oriah Mountain Dreamer
| Abbey file photo |
| There is in all visible things . . . a hidden wholeness. ~Thomas Merton |
| ~Ramblings Of A Retired Mind~ |
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