How Short Life Is

How short is life, and how full of trouble! 

Like a flower, we blossom for a moment and then wither. 

Like the shadow of a passing cloud we quickly disappear. 

(The One Year Book Of Bible Readings, 25 April) 

30 June 2013

Creativity

Creativity is not just about making fascinating inventions or great works of art. It has to do with shaping your life and cultivating your very soul. (Thomas Moore, Dark Nights Of The Soul, p. 199) 29 June 2013

I Think I Can, I Think I Can

Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already. (Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, American Writer and Minister, in Pocket Positives, no page numbering) 28 June 2013

Molding

We may guide or inspire by our example, but we cannot cast another person, however close to us, into the mold that we choose. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 15 June) 27 June 2013

Coming Or Going

You can tell a lot about which direction your life is heading by looking at the people with whom you've chosen to spend your time and share your ideas. Their values and priorities impact the way you think and act. (John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 11 April)

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I've been working on a genealogy project. I'm using the project to help me learn more about how to use version five of my genealogy program, RootsMagic, which is installed on my laptop computer. I rekeyed most of the information in the 1959 genealogy document, The Amos Tree, of Roy Lee and Norma (Latham) Henthorn into the program. Then I added information from the PAF 2.31 version of my William Henthorn file. I prepared and posted to the Internet a Register report for Robert Henthorn, the father of Amos Henthorn. I'm pleased with the payback from the project.

26 June 2013

Waiting

Often, in a crisis, it is better to wait patiently for a problem to work itself out through a natural, inevitable process, than to constantly input our own, perhaps misguided control into it. (after One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 13 June) 25 June 2013

Time

Time is swiftly flying by, and pages are blowing off the calendar like leaves in the wind.
(David Jeremiah, Journey, 9 June) 24 June 2013