5 Sep 2024, Thursday

 5 Sep 2024, Thursday

Prioritized Daily Task

9:30 A.M. - Miracle-Ear follow-up appointment

7:00 PM - Porter's football game at Cottonwoods Heights

Park City Condo.

Debbie and I were up at 6:30 AM, we had prayer, ate a little breakfast, and drove to Lehi on a follow-up to see if my hearing aids needed to be adjusted.  We arrived early and filled the SUV with gas at Costco.  We went back to the Miracle-Ear office and had the volume turned up on the hearing aids.   I have another follow-up on Nov. 14th at 10:30 AM in the Lehi office.  Afterward, we went home.  Debbie worked on cleaning the house and I cut the grass and took all the garbage and recycle containers to the street for pick up next Monday.  I got a text from Alex inviting us to a birthday party for her mother tomorrow at her Grandfather McEwin's home.  I tried to call her but the call went to her answering machine.  I left a message and Debbie tested her.  I called and talked to Autumn.  She will be here in Utah for a week or two.  She and Michael will be staying at the cabin.   She wants to stay at the house next weekend but Tony, Jody, and the children and grandbaby will be there.  We drove back to the condo in Park City stopping in Little Cottonwood Canyon at a pizzeria for dinner.  we got to the condo and read while Debbie worked on a Thanksgiving Garland to hang on the mantle at the house.  I read and we watched TV before having prayer and going to bed at about 10 PM.

Notes:  Quotes are from a book I read, Great Words of our Time, a Hallmark Editions. (I have added a few extras of mine I have collected.)

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday, but I love today. William Allen White

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.  Edith Wharton

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  Eleanor Roosevelt

It is not work that wears a person out it is worry.  Worry to man is like friction to a machine. (another take on worry and work) The reason why worry kills more people that work is that more people worry than work.  Robert Frost 

I’ve never been poor, only broke.  Being poor is a frame of mind.  Being broke is only a temporary situation. Mike Todd                                                There is nothing wrong with being poor.  It is just inconvenient.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty.  Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.  Franz Kafka

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  Martin Luther King, JR.

Some men see things as they are and say why.  I dream things that never were and say, why not.  Robert F Kennedy

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is Love.  Thornton Wilder

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.  Jimmy Durante

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.  Winston Churchill

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.  Louis Nizer

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity.  But we now face a task of which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.  Alen Gregg

Older men declare war but it is youth that must fight and die.  And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.  Herbert Hoover

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it.  Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.  Fulton Sheen

We cannot negotiate with those who say, “What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable,” 

John F. Kennedy

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.  John F. Kennedy

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.  Robert Frost

Nothing in the world is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.  Winston churhill

The story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love.  It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.  Helen Hayes

Cherish all your happy moments, they make a fine cushion for old age.  Booth Tarkington

God gave us memories so that we might have roses in the December of our lives.  James M. Barrie

To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.  Bernard M. Baruch

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.  Coco Chanel

Beauty is only skin deep, but old ugly goes all the way to the bone. Grandma Thrash, the quote can be traced back to the 1600s.

There are tones of voice that mean more than words.  Robert Frost

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words cannot hurt me. GF Northall, published in 1894 

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never give in! Never give in!  Never, never, never, never—in nothing great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.   Winston Churchill

Never grow a wishbone, where your backbone ought to be.  Clementine Paddleford

In war, there is no substitute for victory.  Douglas Mac Arthur 

We write our own destiny…we become what we do.  Madame Chiang Kai-shek

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.  Russell

Having witnessed the carnage of the first battle at Bull Run, Andrew would later say ” War must become as obsolete as cannibalism”. Andrew Carnegie .......Prince of Steel

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.  Andrew Carnegie, born 1835, and his wife, Louise Whitfield, 1857, of New York City, supported her husband's philanthropy and signed a prenuptial marriage agreement stating Carnegie's intention of giving away virtually his entire fortune during his lifetime. He promised his mother he would not marry until she passed.  His is wife was 22 when they married.  They had one daughter  Margaret Carnegie, born in 1897.

Dale Carnegie wasn't related to the Carnegie family. In fact, his initial last name wasn't even Carnegie — it was Carnagey. He only changed his name to Carnegie after he sold his first book, in an attempt to associate himself with the Carnegie family. Carnegie also thought the name would be easier to remember.