Saturday, January 6, 2007 - Inspiring
"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
~William Butler Yeats
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Thursday, January 4, 2007 - Happy Thoughts
From an online calendar I got this year:
• a meringue of dense fog
• dunking a doughnut
• foresight
• a cozy hotel room
• bright red poppy petals
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Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - Quote of the Day
"There are three ways to get something done: Do it yourself; employ someone; or forbid your children to do it." ~ Monta Crane
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Sunday, July 23, 2006 - Quote of the Day
"I don't know any parents who look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, 'How can we screw this kid up?'"
~Educator Russell Bishop
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Sunday, June 25, 2006 - Kids Say the Darndest
Stuart and I teach the PreK-K Sunday School at our church. It's a real blessing and great fun to watch them learn and grow.
Today when Stuart was helping the kids reenact the triumphant entry, he had the children line up in two lines with a path between them. He talked about how the crowd shouted "hosannas" and waved palm branches at Jesus as he went by. Then he asked what they did next, hoping the kids would remember how the crowd lay down their coats on the street. One little boy called out, "Then they took off all their clothes!"
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Saturday, June 24, 2006 - Another Emily-ism
Another Emily-ism:
Upon singing the R.E.M. song "End of the World" with her father, Emily asked me, "Why does he have a hurricane?" I said, "Who?" "The guy singing the song. 'I have a hurricane.'" I laughed and explained the line as, "Eye of a hurricane." She was relieved and said, "I'm glad, 'cuz no one can own a hurricane."
(An aside: She used to sing that line as "I am a hurricane.")
Gotta love the way kids think.
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Friday, June 2, 2006 - An Emily-ism
After having her hair washed and dried the other night, Stuart told 8-year-old Emily how pretty she was. She thanked him and said sweetly, "Do you think the boys will fight over me?"
"Get thee to a nunnery." ~Hamlet
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 - Quote of the Day
Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.
~Robert Pollok, poet
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - Quote of the Day
"Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence." ~Lord Byron
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Saturday, March 18, 2006 - Quote of the Day
"Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness." ~St. John Chrysotom
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Thursday, March 9, 2006 - Fountain of Youth?
From my daily desk calendar:
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows,
let them not written upon the heart.
The spirit should not grow old."
James A. Garfield
I'm sure my kids have already figured out this one...their happy countenance is a constant reminder for me to see the "silver lining in the clouds" -- not the "clouds in the silver lining." How much they teach me....and how much I have yet to learn! 
