What good is accomplished by being brutally honest? Is it really worth the risk of destroying a relationship with a co-worker, friend or loved one? It doesn't matter if you are 100% right. Once you act like a jerk, you have already lost the fight. Sometimes, it's best to just let it go.

Since July 30, 2008, I have received 40 units of blood during 21 transfusions of red blood cells. During the same time period, I received 15 transfusions of platelets which may have come from as many as 60 individuals. It is probable that over 100 unknown donors have been keeping me alive. Knowing that the end may be near, I have treasured each precious day of life. I filled them with music and books, Nature walks and kayaking, family and friends. When I finally kick that proverbial bucket, I can say that it has been a wonderful life - thanks in no small measure to all those who made the last 12 months possible.

God cannot make a peaceful world unless we, His children, help Him by rooting out hatred from our hearts, the prejudice from our mind, the injustice from our society...
God cannot build a happy home unless husband and wife work with Him by bringing to it a spirit of sharing, mutual respect, a binding loyalty, constancy and compassion. - Sidney Greenberg

Today is the Day

There are many fine things which you mean to do someday, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life... significant and worth while. The present is yours to do with it as you will. - Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1935)

The clock of life is wound but once,

And no man has the power

To tell just when the hands will stop -

At late or early hour.

Now is the only time you own;

Live, love, work with a will.

Place no faith in tomorrow, for -

The clock may then be still. - George H. Candler