Ray's Daily

“Many fine things can be done in a day if you don’t always make that day tomorrow”

 

 

It looks like my reduced life style may be a blessing in disguise since now I’ll have time to do things I have put off over the years. I will have time for that book I never read, the movie I never saw, the issue I never researched, and of the greatest importance time for the people I respect. The list is long and it might take me awhile before I get to that book or study that subject since there are so many people who I never should have drifted away from. So if you find me on your doorstep, in your mail box or on your computer in the days ahead it is only because I want you to know how much I value you.

I was going to write about something else today but I stumbled across the following poem that reminded me that I have not told too many people how important they are in my eyes.

 

Tomorrow

Tomorrow-I’ll tell him just what he means,

That living and loving with him is in my dreams

Tomorrow-I’ll give a big hug to mum,

Say a quick thank you for all that she’s done.

Tomorrow-I’ll call or even drop by,

I’ll say ‘I love you’ state all the reasons why.

 

Tomorrow-I’ll go about getting in touch,

With forgotten friends I miss so much.

Tomorrow-I’ll take the first step to my goal,

That I’ve always thought would make my life whole.

Tomorrow-I’ll count all my blessings in life,

Consider it privilege to be a midwife …

 

But what should I do if that day never comes,

And all good intentions come undone.

If life should spin a crazy dance,

All these things and you never got the chance.

If you woke up tomorrow to find that they’d gone,

Looked at your list, realized you’d done none.

 

All the things you were going to do today,

A million things you never got to say.

Would you be confident that you’d given your all,

Or guilty that you didn’t make that call?

Could you be at peace, content that they knew,

Just how much they all meant to you?

 

So, to avoid that nightmare never becoming real,

Love life, love others and show how you feel.

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“Too many times we stand aside and let the waters slip away, till what we put off till tomorrow has now become today. So don’t you sit upon the shoreline and say you’re satisfied. Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.”

Author Unknown

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Two lawyers went into a diner and sat down at the counter. They ordered two sodas, took sandwiches out of their briefcases and started to eat them.
The owner saw what was going on and approached the men. "You can’t eat your own sandwiches in here," he complained.
The two lawyers stopped, looked at each other, and then swapped their sandwiches.

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A rock <– me –> A hard place

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More of my plans for when I become overlord, notwithstanding what we have learned from the movies.

·      I will not have a son. Although his laughably under-planned attempt to usurp power would easily fail, it would provide a fatal distraction at a crucial point in time.

·      I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero’s rugged countenance and she’d betray her own father.

·      Despite its proven stress-relieving effect, I will not indulge in maniacal laughter. When so occupied, it’s too easy to miss unexpected developments that a more attentive individual could adjust to accordingly.

·      I will hire a talented fashion designer to create original uniforms for my Legions of Terror, as opposed to some cheap knock-offs that make them look like Nazi stormtroopers, Roman footsoldiers, or savage Mongol hordes. All were eventually defeated and I want my troops to have a more positive mind-set.

·      No matter how tempted I am with the prospect of unlimited power, I will not consume any energy field bigger than my head.

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I’m just moving clouds today. Tomorrow, I’ll try mountains.

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Three weeks after her wedding day, Joanna called her minister. "Reverend," she wailed, "John and I had a DREADFUL fight!"

"Calm down, my child," said the minister, "it’s not half as bad as you think. Every marriage has to have its first fight!"

"I know, I know!" said Joanna. "But what am I going to do with the BODY?"

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A customer called our airline’s reservation office to pay for his ticket with a credit card. My co-worker asked him, "Would you please spell the name as it appears on the card, sir?"
The customer replied, "V-I-S-A."

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Stress is when you wake up screaming & you realize you haven’t fallen asleep yet.

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Once upon a time there was a woman married to an annoying man named Steve. He would complain about everything. That day he went to their creek with his mule. He complained so much that the mule got annoyed and kicked him to death. At the funeral, when all the men walked by the wife she shook her head yes and every time the women walked by she shook her head no. The minister asked ”Why are you shaking your head yes for men and no for women?” Her response was, ”The men would say how sorry they felt for me and I was saying, ‘Yes, I’ll be alright.’ When the women walked by, they were asking if the mule is for sale . . . "

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Ohgreat,nowthedernspacebarwon’twork!

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A college physics professor was explaining a particularly complicated concept to his class when a pre-med student interrupted him. "Why do we have to learn this stuff?" one young man blurted out.

"To save lives," the professor responded before continuing the lecture.

A few minutes later the student spoke up again. "So how does physics save lives?"

The professor stared at the student for a long time without saying a word. Finally the professor continued. "Physics saves lives," he said, "because it keeps certain people out of medical school."

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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”

Melodie Beattie

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Stay well, do good work, and have fun.

 

Ray Mitchell

Indianapolis, Indiana

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