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waxing philosphical I amd...

Friday 13 November

Unlucky for some but not for me.

What some may perceive as bad luck may of course be an unfortunate set of circumstance, but luck well...

As Jonathan Bach wrote in his book about the reluctant messiah, and I'm working form memory here so I may not get it exactly right.

All the things in your life are there because you have drawn them there; what you choose to do with them is up to you.

By drawn I mean attracted them to us rather than putting pen to paper to create a picture.

On second thoughts, I guess it is a picture of sorts that we are drawing in our brains.

Those of you who know me may by now have realised that

I am eternal optimists. My glass is always half full.

I saw a great poster the other day that said something like You shouldn't mind stormy weather because it give you the opportunity to dance in the rain

Remember when you were a kid, how much fun it was when it was raining to put on the wet weather gear and jump in puddles. It's a pity that most grown ups seem to have forgotten the pure joy in simple things like splashing in puddles.

Then there was Sydney Freeman the psychologist from the TV programme M*A*S*H ( and yes I know he was the creation of somebody's imagination and not a real psychologist), anyway he said Ladies and gents take my advice pull down you pants and slid on the ice.

OK it would be a bit chilly, bit what I think he was saying was throw out your inhibitions and live life.

Some other wise person left instructions to Dance like nobody's watching'

So kick off your inhibitions and leave your cares where they belong, you may not have control of what is going on around you but you have total control over how you let it affect you and how you react to it....

Nelson Mandela is a prime example, the world would be a much better place if we all followed his example.

Where were you when the heard the news?

 John F. Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.

Of Irish descent, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. Graduating from Harvard in 1940, he entered the Navy. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, Kennedy, despite grave injuries, led the survivors through perilous waters to safety.

His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War II; before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.

The popular and charismatic president won many friends in the UK during his short term in office, and following his death an acre of land in Runnymede Meadow was dedicated to a memorial in his memory.

The inscription on the stone is from his inaugural speech

"Let every National know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and success of liberty"

Couldn't resist sharing this ...