Enjoy Your Life

Strawberry Festival - Kent Island, MD

... you might as well enjoy your life while God is in the process of changing things in the lives of people around you.
(probably Joel Osteen)

Dick Henthorn
31 Mar 2018

Who's At Fault

Washington, DC Cherry Blossoms

The more frightened you are, 

the more righteous you become, 

and the more others appear to be at fault.

(Gray Zukav and Linda Francis, Thoughts From The Heart of the Soul, p. 85)

Dick Henthorn

30 Mar 2018

Being Miserable

Words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

FDR Memorial Washington, DC

If you want to be miserable,

• think much about yourself, 
• about what you want, 
• what you like, 
• what respect people ought to pay you, and 
• what people think of you.

(Charles Kingsley in Flowers Along the Path by Esther Carls Dodgen, p. 192)

Dick Henthorn

29 March 2018

Looking Back

Lavender Iris in Our Backyard

When we look back, 

we realize that the things which came to us when we put ourselves in God's hands 

were better than anything 

we could have planned.

(As Bill Sees It, p. 2)

Dick Henthorn

28 Mar 2018

Moderation

Melva's Yellow Iris in the Backyard

... moderation is usually a good idea for most aspects of life.

(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, 13 September)

Dick Henthorn

27 Mar 2018

Doing What's Right

Melva's Backyard Iris

You can't make your spouse or your boss or your neighbor do what's right.

(Joel Osteen, Become A Better You, p. 275)

Dick Henthorn

26 Mar 2018

Do Nothing

Pink Azalea in Our Backyard

(Dick's Cellphone Photo)

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.

(Hippocrates, in The Art of the Possible by Alexandra Stoddard, p. 112)

Dick Henthorn

25 Mar 2018

Keeping the Past

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads.
It is considered unhealthy in America

• to remember mistakes, 
• neurotic to think about them, 
• psychotic to dwell on them.

(Lillian Hellman)

Dick Henthorn
24 Mar 2018

The Right Thing

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right thing.

(Steven R. Covey, First Things First, p. 44)

Dick Henthorn

23 Mar 2018

Limitations

When we accept our limitations and know that things will go wrong -- and we cannot always prevent it -- we are more able to cope with problems when they arise.
(Alexandra Stoddard, The Art of the Possible, p. 95)

Dick Henthorn
22 Mar 2018

Pay Attention

Pay attention to what you're feeding yourself.
Are you storing away more positive or more negative?
You cannot mentally brand everything as negative and expect to live a positive, happy life.
(Joel Osteen, Become A Better You, p. 226)

Dick Henthorn
21 Mar 2018

Life Stories

Each person's life stories are worth sharing, especially for the lessons learned.
(The Christophers, Three Minutes A Day, Vol. 41, 28 Sep)

Dick Henthorn
20 Mar 2018

Focus

When we aren't feeling well, it's much harder to think clearly, to relate in positive ways to others, to focus on contribution instead of survival.
Stephen R. Covey, First Things First, p. 47)

Dick Henthorn
19 Mar 2018
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Your Story

If you look at your story, there is probably a great deal you can use right now to move forward. When, however, you find yourself stuck on the details that break your heart, you are telling the story in the wrong way, for the wrong reasons.
(Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 8 January)

Dick Henthorn
18 Mar 2018

Awareness

... awareness is the first step toward change.

(Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 8 March)

Dick Henthorn

17 March 2018

Beware

Beware of words, beware of thoughts, beware of bad actions.

If you do this, you will walk the path of a wise man.

(Leo Tolstoy, Wise Thoughts for Every Day, 26 July)

Dick Henthorn

16 March 2018

Google Docs & Google Drive

Google Docs & Google Drive

Today I worked on a project trying to understand the relationship between Google Docs and Google Drive.

Here's the way I see it.

• Google Docs is an application where you can create and save documents.
• Google Drive is where files created in the various Google applications are stored.

Files stored in Google Drive count against your allocated "free" storage.

Creating folders in Google Drive can be a big help later on when you need to find a file. There are several ways to create folders and to move files into folders.

If you also use Google Sites you can create a special folder in Google Drive that will be accessible in Google Sites. That is to say, files stored in the special folder can be viewed via Google Sites in a Folder page that you create on Google Sites.

Dick Henthorn

15 Mar 2017

The President's Primary Problem

The President's Primary Problem

“The president's primary problem as a leader,” Peggy Noonan stingingly remarked,

is not that he is impetuous, brash or naive. It's not that he is inexperienced, crude, an outsider. It is that he is weak and sniveling. It is that he undermines himself almost daily by ignoring traditional norms and forms of American masculinity. He's not strong and self-controlled not cool and tough, not low-key and determined; he's whiny, weepy and self-pitying. He throws himself, sobbing on the body politic.

He's a drama queen.
(Quoted by David Frum, in Trumpocracy - The Corruption of the American Republic, p. 226-7)

Dick Henthorn
15 March 2018

Ambassador

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his county.

(Henry Wotton, 1568- 1639, written the album of Christopher Fleckmore in 1604)

Dick Henthorn

14 March 2018

Power

Power doesn't have to show off.
Power is

• confident, 
• self-assuring, 
• self-starting and self-stopping, 
• self-warming and self-justifying.

When you have it, you know it.
(Ralph Ellison)

Dick Henthorn
13 March 2018

Committee

A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.

(David Coblitz)

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

(Barnett Cocks)

Dick Henthorn

12 March 2018

Bill of Rights

What we are seeing is a grant of permission from millions of people to the president of the United States to diminish, discredit, corrode, and ultimately subvert what the authors of the US Bill of Rights listed among the very first freedoms necessary to their great experiment in self-government.

(David Frum, Trumpocracy - The Corruption of the American Republic, p. 123)

Dick Henthorn
11 March 2018

Self-Knowledge

Self-knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action.
Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made.
(Johann Goethe in The 8th Habit by Stephen R. Covey, p. 33)

Dick Henthorn
10 March 2018

First They Came For

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

(Martin Niemoeller)

(Reader's Digest - Treasure of Wit & Wisdom, p. 250)

Dick Henthorn

9 March 2018

Politics

Politics is not a bad profession. 

If you succeed there are many rewards,

if you disgrace yourself 

you can always write a book.

(Ronald Reagan)

(Reader's Digest - Treasury of Wit & Wisdom, p,. 236)

Dick Henthorn

8 March 2018

Victim Mentality

You can't have a victim mentality and expect to live in victory. You can't live in a perpetual pity party and then wonder why situations aren't improving in your life.
(Joel Osteen, Your Best Life Now, p. 32)

Dick Henthorn
7 March 2018

Anybody Can Be President

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.

I'm beginning to believe it.

(Clarence Darrow, 1857-1938: Irving Stone Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1941)

Dick Henthorn

6 March 2018

Emotional Awareness

Emotional awareness allows you to walk the earth awake instead of in a self-imposed trance.
(Gary Zukav and Linda Francis, Thoughts From the Heart of the Soul, p. 124)

Dick Henthorn
5 Mar 2018

Normal

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.
Ellen Goodman

Dick Henthorn
4 Mar 2018

Complexity

Complexity

There is no complexity that could arise today that cannot find its solution in spiritual inspiration.

(Day by Day, 1 November)

Dick Henthorn

3 Mar 2018

Sharing

Sharing

When a suffering is shared, its weight is divided. And when a joy is shared, the delight is multiplied. We need each other.

(Sue Monk Kidd, First Light, p. 66)

Dick Henthorn

2 Mar 2018