Tuesdays Direction

Good Morning Friends,

I hope Monday went in the direction you had hoped, today offers us many choices to continue driving life in the current direction or change it to where you need to go. The point is that life is short to waste time, So do what makes you happy and brings your Soul to life. Enjoy the quotes and inspiration!

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

~Erica Mann Jong 

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." 

~ George Eliot 

A Car Accident

Author: Byron Pulsifer

Catherine and I were on our way to our nephew's birthday party one rainy Saturday morning driving along what some people call moose alley. It was early, few other cars on the road and we were looking forward to a good day spent with family. It wasn't that we hadn't driven this road before, in fact, many, many times through the bush-laden countryside.

A moose darted out across our path. Fortunately, a quick swerve to the other lane prevented a full impact with only a collision on the right side of our car ripping off the mirror and embedding moose hair down the side of the car, and knocking the moose to the pavement.

By the time I stopped and looked back in my rear view mirror, the moose was getting up and then ran into the bush. Shaken but fine, we both looked at each other with a stunned expression. We both knew that moose accidents had claimed many lives throughout the years, and we knew we had been very fortunate to escape with only slight vehicle damage and no personal injury or worse. After a quick check of our vehicle, we started off again.

It took only a few seconds from start to finish in our moose accident but those few seconds in our lives have reverberated through time to this day. Why?

We had often talked about the frailty of life, the here today and gone tomorrow potential we all face but it had never been so personally realistic before. And, it wasn't that we haven't had friends, relatives, and colleagues die before, it was now much more personal. In the matter of seconds, lives can be irreversibly altered; death could have easily been the result.

The value of that one near miss with death has been a positive, a reawakening to the value of each day. Each one of us has only a limited time on this earth; no one can predict when your time will end. But, the time between life and death is a time to give thanks for each day, to see the sun rise again, to know that you can accomplish, can help, can assist others to appreciate their life if they are caught in the poor-me syndrome.

Seize each day as if it is your last because that just might be the case. Take each day for the real gift it is; enjoy each day and add a joyful thought or a laugh or a simple appreciation to sit for a moment and enjoy the expression of freedom that it entails. You have a gift, a gift that is immeasurable in its own right. You can make each day a day of value, or you can choose to complain where you have to right to. What kind of day will you have now?

Tuesdays humor..

Mayonaise

There are many stories related to the sinking of the "Titanic."

Some have just come to light due to the success of the recent

movie. For example, most people don't know that back in 1912

Hellman's mayonnaise was manufactured in England. The

"Titanic" was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled

for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico which was to be the next port

of call for the great ship after New York City.

The Mexican people were eagerly awaiting delivery and were

disconsolate at the loss. So much so that they declared a

national day of mourning which they still observe today.

It is known, of course, as...

[ This is pretty bad ]

[ I don't make these up...I'm just the messenger ]

[ Are you sure you're ready? ]

Sinko de Mayo