Another Book to Read

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This day belongs to me. I can do wonderful things with it, creative things, including the creation of order in my surroundings and in my mind. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 30 July)

Giving is the highest expression of potency. ... This expression of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness. (Erich Fromm in "The Art of Loving," found in The Art of the Possible by Alexandra Stoddard, p. 232)

It is always love's greatest tragedy to look upon some loved one who has taken the wrong way and to see what might have been, what could have been and what was meant to have been. That is life's greatest heartbreak. (William Barclay, The Gospel of Luke, p. 91)

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A week or two ago I went to the Monday 25% off sale at the thrift store. I found a hardback copy of Suzanne Somers' book, "Keeping Secrets." When I got home I didn't have the book. I didn't know if I decided I didn't want the book or I just set it down to look at something else and never picked it up. Yesterday we went to the Monday sale again. I looked at the books for quite a while before I found the same copy of the book again. I got it for sixty cents. I also found a, like new, copy of Lorrie Morgan's CD - Greater Need, for sixty cents. How can they sell a CD for sixty cents.

I urged my friend in Atlanta who recently had heart surgery to post a message on his Facebook page to let his friends know what happened and that he is at home recovering. It was nice to see how quickly his many friends responded by posting messages to his wall.

Last week I made several new Facebook friends. More of my Wichita, KS, Class of '57 classmates joined our Facebook group and some posted to The Wall and to the Discussion Boards. It's lots of fun when they post.

I learned from the September issue of Smart Computing that there is a new Google "profile." I spent time yesterday trying to learn how that application works. I made a good start but didn't learn everything I want to know about how it works with Picasa. I'll have to go back for more experimentation. It seems that none of my online Picasa photo albums are public. I can't remember whether that was my intention or not. When I checked the switches I didn't understand the "text" beside the little check-off boxes.

Mr. Dickie