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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:25:17 -0800

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradoxical_Commandments
From the page:
The Paradoxical Commandments�

1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

4. The good you do today, will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

6. The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

7. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

9. People really need help, but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.

10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:50:40 -0700

To the father that never cared (revised):

A young girl of five cried, tears blurring her vision, as she stared out the back window of the car that headed to Colorado, when would she see her Dad again? she was only five, she didn't understand why they where going away.

A young girl the age of 7 cried, tears choking her words, as she asked her Dad not to leave her at these strangers house. "You got the toy horse in exchange for staying here tonight" he said. With that he left to attend his new years eve party leaving her in a strange place with strange people. She was only seven, visiting him on holiday, she didn't understand.

A girl now in 5th grade, and 10 years old, cried and said, "I want my Daddy, why doesn't he write back". Her mom's boyfriend full of compassion for the child said "you're Dad's not here any more, but I'm here, and I can replace him" he tried to comfort her, but in a short time he was gone, leaving the hole in her heart bigger.

A girl the age of 13, wrote her father again. You see she didn't fit in and was applying for a private school, a music school. Unfortunately her Mom was raising three kids on her own and couldn't afford such a thing. So she applies for a scholarship, but needed her father's financial information as well in order complete the forms. She mails it off hoping to hear from him, and yes the forms are returned filled out, with barley a word or two at the bottom of a paper and signed not dad, not father, but with his first name. She didn't get the scholarship to that school, but he never knew, and never asked.

A young woman of 17, gets drunk. She wonders as she drinks if her father ever thinks of her. For her, while drinking is the only time she can allow herself to feel emotions. She drinks a lot and thinks about death a lot, and then she loses herself in her music, only there can she make the world go away.

A young woman of 21 hands her newborn to his new parents. The child's father, says he's not the father, and she an emotional mess. She wont do that to a young innocent child. A child needs a mother and a father, to grow up strong and confident, and now this child will have that. But the hole in her heart has gotten bigger again.

A women at the age of 26 visits her Aunt in California, they get to know each other. They visit her Grandmother, and another Aunt. It is a wonderful time, but her heart wonders why her father has shown no signs of wanting to see her.

A woman of 28 starts planning a move, back to where she was born. She needs to see where she would have grown up, needs to meet her father's side of the family, and give him a chance to meet her. The move will be hard and she knows it, but to have peace inside she must try.

A woman of 30 waits at the Bart station for her Aunt to pick her up, she's nervous, her father will be at the Christmas gathering today. Her only expectation is that he acknowledges who she is, his daughter. He acknowledges that, but keeps his distance.

A woman of 32 prepares herself to go to her grandmothers. Her partner drives, because it takes all she can do to keep her stomach calm. She knows that her father will be there today, and today will be the first time many of them meet her partner. Things go well, and she looks forward to their next encounter.

A woman at the age of 35, for some reason she reaches out to her father and his wife "please help me get out of here". They arrange for a flight to where her mother is, there she slowly begins to heal from a relationship that had gotten abusive. They want her to keep in contact, and tell her they plan to help her with schooling once they receive the money they are to inherit. Thrilled that they would bring up the possibility of help, and that they want to keep in contact she emails on a regular basis.

A woman at the age of 36, is told that she will not receive help for school, and then shortly after they stop replying to email. At first she wonders if they are okay, maybe someone is sick. But as time passes she realizes that they don't want to be in contact with her any longer.

So 31 years after the tears blocked her view of him as they drove away, she struggles to keep the tears inside, after all why would she want to cry one more time over this man who never cared. She reflects back, not regretting the attempts shes made to get to know her father and his family. Only regretting allowing herself to feel that he wanted to get to know her Only regretting allowing herself to think that someday she might better know this man, that was supposedly her father, that had for so long left a hole that she didn't know how to fill. It appears things will end with the woman still feeling the pull of the little girl inside her...that just wants her daddy. But he will never know how much she tired as a child or as an adult to know him, because in his eyes.....she didn't keep in contact with him.

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Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:26:42 -0700

To the father that never cared:

A young girl of five cried, tears blurring her vision, as she stared out the back window of the car that headed to Colorado, when would she see her Dad again? she was only five, she didn't understand why they where going away.

A young girl the age of 7 cried, tears choking her words, as she asked her Dad not to leave her at these strangers house. "You got the toy horse in exchange for staying here tonight" he said. With that he left to attend his new years eve party leaving her in a strange place with strange people. She was only seven, visiting him on holiday, she didn't understand.

A girl now in 5th grade, and 10 years old, cried and said, "I want my Daddy, why doesn't he write back". Her mom's boyfriend full of compassion for the child said "you're Dad's not here any more, but I'm here, and I can replace him" he tried to comfort her, but in a short time he was gone, leaving the hole in her heart bigger.

A girl the age of 13, wrote her father again. You see she didn't fit in and was applying for a private school, a music school. Unfortunately her Mom was raising three kids on her own and couldn't afford such a thing. So she applies for a scholarship, but needed her father's financial information as well in order complete the forms. She mails it off hoping to hear from him, and yes the forms are returned filled out, with barley a word or two at the bottom of a paper and signed not dad, not father, but with his first name. She didn't get the scholarship to that school, but he never knew, and never asked.

A young woman of 17, gets drunk. She wonders as she drinks if her father ever thinks of her. For her, while drinking is the only time she can allow herself to feel emotions. She drinks a lot and thinks about death a lot, and then she loses herself in her music, only there can she make the world go away.

A young woman of 21 hands her newborn to his new parents. The child's father, says he's not the father, and she an emotional mess. She wont do that to a young innocent child. A child needs a mother and a father, to grow up strong and confident, and now this child will have that. But the hole in her heart has gotten bigger again.

A woman of 28 starts planning a move, back to where she was born. She needs to see where she would have grown up, needs to meet her father's side of the family, and give him a chance to meet her. Her only expectation is that he acknowledges who she is, his daughter. He acknowledges that, but keeps his distance.

A woman of 36 reflects back, not regretting the attempts shes made to get to know her father and his family. Only regretting allowing herself to feel that he wanted to get to know her. Only regretting allowing herself to think that someday she might better know this man, that was supposedly her father, that had for so long left a hole that she didn't know how to fill. It appears things will end with the woman still feeling the pull of the little girl inside her...that just wants her daddy. But he will never know how much she tired as a child or as an adult to know him, because in his eyes.....she didn't keep in contact with him.

So 31 years after the tears blocked her view of him as they drove away, she struggles to keep the tears inside, after all why would she want to cry one more time over this man who never cared.

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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:35:37 -0700

This was emailed to me:
THOSE born 1920-1979

READ TO THE BOTTOM FOR QUOTE OF THE MONTH BY JAY LENO. IF YOU DON'T READ ANYTHING ELSE---VERY WELL STATED

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

The quote of the month is by Jay Leno:

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?