Hello & Good Morning!

[Diane Amberg]

This sure is a busy birthday week. Debra, Rudy, Jesus, Jo, Janet, then DTW902, and tmm. Such distinguished company. Huge HAPPY BIRTHDAYS to you all!

[Rudy Taylor]

Wow, Diane.  You're giving our little birthday gang a lot to live up to.

[Jo McDonald]

WOW !!!  are we all the Kings-Queens of December or what?  Thanks Diane - you put us on the top of the totem pole.

   I have had a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY  many, many cards - telephone calls from family and friends, wishes from loved ones and from the forum family.....
Couldn't ask for any thing more.

Who said the "Golden Years" were not the very best???

[Teresa]

Who said the "Golden Years" were not the very best???

Molly Flory..
She said it...
She said that to live as long as she did was not all that great, because all your pals and best friends were already dead.

((Well?? you ask me))))

[Jo McDonald]

Well, maybe I did ask.....but, I didn't say that I wanted to know.. 


But a quote from Molly is one of the best ever.  That lady was one of my very favorites, but for that matter, there were a lot of ladies in that age catagorie that I loved dearly.  And when the word Ladies was used, they truly were just that.

[Jo McDonald]

               This is really good.

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.
During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.  Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups-porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:
"Notice that all the nice looking; expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.  While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate.  In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups.  They are just tools to hold and contain life.  The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have.  Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us.  God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything.  They just make the best of everything that they have.
Live simply.  Love generousl.  Care deeply.  Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate!

[Diane Amberg]

I'd have chosen the cheapest cup there, because knowing me, I'd have dropped it! 

[Joanna]

Me too, but because the oldest, cheaper cups  are usually the biggest!   

[Rudy Taylor]

I've always had an eye for the B and C cups!

(OK, OK, I'll go take my nap.)

[Teresa]

Don't forget your medication....