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WITandWISDOM(tm) - April 9, 1998 THOUGHTS: I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind. - George Bernard Shaw (Shared by Keith's Mostly Clean Humor & Weird List KSullivan@worldnet.att.net) SPECIAL THOUGHTS: Another Easter coming and no new dress, I thought peevishly as I did my chores. I was ll, and looking good at Easter services seemed all important. Then I walked into the kitchen and there was Mama ironing her old navy dress with the frayed white collar. She had worn it to church every week for as long as I could remember. Mama never complained, even though she and Daddy struggled to support six kids. We didn't have fancy clothes, but we never lacked. that year my brother and sisters and I pooled our piggy-bank savings, just enough to buy Mama a corsage of her favorite flowers. On Easter morning Mama pinned those pink carnations to her dress as if putting the finishing touch on an evening gown. It made me prouder than any new outfit I could ever own. - Mary Chandler (Shared by Sharon Unger) THIS & THAT: Solve these word puzzles by saying them out loud, over and over, faster and faster, repeating the phrase, until you "hear" the answer. Example: LAWN SAND JEALOUS (place) Answer: Los Angeles 1. SHOCK CUSSED TOE (person) 2. SAND TACKLE LAWS (fictional character) 3. MY GULCH HOARD UN (person) 4. MOW BEAD HICK (book) 5. TALL MISCHIEF HER SUN (person) 6. CHICK HE TUB AN AN US (product) 7. THOUGH TIGHT AN HICK (thing) 8. AISLE OH VIEW (phrase) 9. TUB RAID HEAP HUNCH (TV show) 10. CARESS TROUGHER CLUMP US (person) 11. DOCKED HEARSE WHOSE (person) 12. THUMB ILL KEY WAKE OWL LICKS HE (place) 13. AGE ANT HUB BLOWS HEAVEN (fictional character) 14. THESE HOUND DOVE MOO SICK (movie) 15. BUCK SPUN HE (fictional character) Answers: 1. Jacques Cousteau 2. Santa Claus 3. Michael Jordan 4. Moby Dick 5. Thomas Jefferson 6. Chiquita Banana 7. The Titanic 8. I love you 9. The Brady Bunch 10. Christopher Columbus 11. Doctor Seuss 12. The Milky Way Galaxy 13. Agent 007 14. The Sound of Music 15. Bugs Bunny (Shared by Mark Short via Bill's Punch Line tcmrtalk@airmail.net) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either. Just leave me alone. (Shared by via Keith's Mostly Clean Humor & Weird List KSullivan@worldnet.att.net) TRIVIA: C. S. Lewis died at 5:30 p.m. at The Kilns, one week before his 65th birthday on Friday, November 22, 1963, the same day on which President Kennedy was assassinated and Alduous Huxley died. His grave is in the yard of Holy Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford. Warren Lewis (his brother) died on Monday, April 9, 1973. Their names are on a single stone bearing the inscription "Men must endure their going hence." Warnie had written, "...there was a Shakespearean calendar hanging on the wall of the room where she [our mother] died, and my father preserved for the rest of his life the leaf for that day, with its quotation: 'Men must endure their going hence'." - W.H. Lewis, "Memoir," in Letters of C.S. Lewis (Shared by Chris Williams) |