Monday, January 30, 2006

With SB XL this week, BASEBALL not far behind

       Yes the 2006 baseball season is close at hand. I think of the times when I was able to play the game all day long every day during summer vacation from school. How the game is a parrell to life. The number of times when you are all alone in the game doing something, but if you look around there are others to help you out.

       I enjoy watching the GAME at any level. I have remained a fan of baseball since Dad introduced me to it in 1964. I have been through the strikes, bad trades, and last years scandle and remain a fan of it. The NFL had a strike in 1981 and within a couple of years I don't have the love for it like I do baseball. Heck I would ratter watch a college game then a NFL game. On Super Sunday I go bowling as I know the alleys will be empty. seems like every one but me and those that have to work are watching it.

       I always look forward of comong up the ramp and seeing that green grass for the first thim during a season or my first visit to the ballpark. Some of the ball parks I have been to include some of the places no longer there. I have been to Baltimore's Memorial Stadium and Camden Yard. Boston's Femway Park, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, Detroit"s Tiger Stadium, to New York for Yankee and Shea. I have enjoyed many a game in a minor league baseball park when on vacation.

Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.
5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
10. You will forget all this.

A pear Tree shows Lessons on Life

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So, he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.

When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen.

The first son
said "That the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted".

The second son said "No, it was overed with green buds and full of promise."

The third son
disagreed; he said "It was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen."

The forth and last son
disagreed with all of them; "He said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment."

The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but only one season in the tree's life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.

If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall.

Moral:
Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of
all the rest. Don't judge life by one difficult season.
Persevere through the difficult patches and better
times are sure to follow.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Just thinking Back on Things & People