[Lady Jane]

Originally Posted by Esteban

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

-Mary Poppins

Actually...

Actually...

When as as a toddler and teething, my Mum would rub my gums with Ambusol® and dip my soother in honey to help with the pain and keep me quiet. To no avail...

My Dad would dip my soother in his Guinness foam. Touch down! ZZZZZ

And the rest is history.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

Actually...

When as as a toddler and teething, my Mum would rub my gums with Ambusol® and dip my soother in honey to help with the pain and keep me quiet. To no avail...

My Dad would dip my soother in his Guinness foam. Touch down! ZZZZZ

And the rest is history.

Dad wins... again!

[Joekerr]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Dad wins... again!

I totally used a little dab of scotch to rub my sons gums with when he was teething. Worked like a charm.

[Lady Jane]

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[floridaorange]

The intellect should simplify things, not make them more cerebral. We often don't get what we want because we quit early or we didn't take the necessary risk to get it. We are all made for every moment we encounter. If we stay in process and within the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

[cooolone2]

There is nothing like the sight of an amputated spirit!

There's no prophylactic for that...



Scent of a woman!

[M_Six]

"Never resist the urge to keep your mouth shut."

Don't know who said that, but it's sage advice.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by M_Six

"Never resist the urge to keep your mouth shut."

Don't know who said that, but it's sage advice.

Robert Peck?

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Robert Peck?

Close. I found this:

“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”

(same meaning)

-Robert Peck

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Close. I found this:

“Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.”

(same meaning)

-Robert Peck

There it is. Good advice.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by M_Six

There it is. Good advice.

Glad you approve.

[Lady Jane]

" I wasn't big enough and strong enough to work on the construction site. So I gave them my too weak notice."

~Unemployed.

[Lady Jane]

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[Lady Jane]

" How could I forget you? The faces you had
and the faces you didn‟t have. Some of you
came back so many times to haunt me
with your faces blown off. For some of
you there was so little we could do...
The despair and hopelessness I felt....
I remember changing your dressings
and the roaches that came crawling
out of the wounds of your stumps. The
roaches that were eating you alive
and you didn‟t know it. They were
difficult days for me too. I remember
your screams when they had to
amputate your legs. I had compassion
for you and cared about your recovery.
I held your hand then, too. I
cleaned the blood up in the operating
room and then had to carry your
amputated leg to the laboratory and
prepare the room for the next case,
all day and sometimes all night. There
were so many of you....."




The author of this passage committed suicide several years after working as a nurse in a military
hospital in Japan.
In The Trauma of War: Stress andRecovery in Vietnam Veterans
Stephen M. Blank, Arthur S. Blank, and John A. Talbott, editors
Washington: American Psychiatric Press, 1985, 313.

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Lady Jane

[I]" How could I forget you?


The author of this passage committed suicide several years after working as a nurse in a military
hospital in Japan.
In The Trauma of War: Stress andRecovery in Vietnam Veterans
Stephen M. Blank, Arthur S. Blank, and John A. Talbott, editors
Washington: American Psychiatric Press, 1985, 313.

Among the many things I would like to forget, I can still clearly visualize a young Vietnamese soldier sitting in a make-shift wheel chair. He was among his ARVN soldier buddies at our crude base near the Cambodian border. The young soldier had lost both of his arms just below the elbow and both of his legs just below the knee. His faithful friends lashed a stick to his right arm stump, then tied a cigarette to the stick for his enjoyment - probably one of his few enjoyments in life.

Even after 52 years I still wonder what became of him.

[vanguard8]

"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."

Comedian Mort Sahl

[vanguard8]

"The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing."

Writer Sebastian Junger

[vanguard8]

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."

Mark Twain

[vanguard8]

"Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares."

Doris Lessing

[vanguard8]

"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

George Burns

[hubbahubba]

Like this one.

[Esteban]

Here's one I'd like to live by. I try but I am a work in progress.