Saturday, March 31, 2018

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

Friday, March 30, 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

Thursday, March 29, 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

Wednesday, March 28, 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

Tuesday, March 27, 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

Monday, March 26, 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

Sunday, March 25, 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

Saturday, March 24, 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

Friday, March 23, 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

Thursday, March 22, 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

Wednesday, March 21, 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

Tuesday, March 20, 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

Monday, March 19, 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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Sunday, March 18, 2018

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

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Awareness


... awareness is the first step toward change.
(Iyanla Vanzant, Until Today! 8 March)

Dick Henthorn
17 March 2018

Friday, March 16, 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

Thursday, March 15, 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

Wednesday, March 14, 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


Tuesday, March 13, 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

Monday, March 12, 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

Sunday, March 11, 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

Saturday, March 10, 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

Friday, March 9, 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

Thursday, March 8, 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

Wednesday, March 7, 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

Tuesday, March 6, 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

Monday, March 5, 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

Sunday, March 4, 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

Saturday, March 3, 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

Friday, March 2, 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