Don't count time, make time count.

                          "Slow down to a human tempo and things will begin to take shape by themselves."
                          Thomas Merton

                          "It's not how much time you have; it's what you choose to do with it."
                          From movie: 'Spy Kids: All the Time in the World'

jedi jokes

There’s a priest, a rabbi and a jedi attending a charity bingo function. The priest requires 2 numbers to complete his card, the rabbi only one, and the jedi requires 5 numbers before he can shout ‘Bingo!’ The priest and the rabbi have large smiles for they feel they’re sure to win. The jedi is not worried though. He takes a quick look at the numbers the other two require and then turns his focus to the tumbling balls in the plastic barrel on the stage. The next number that comes out is one of his, and so is the next and the next. The rabbi and priest lose their smiles and become suspicious. The priest voices their concern, ‘You aren’t using the force are you, because that would be cheating!’

The jedi waves his hand, ‘These aren’t the numbers you’re looking for; you can carry on playing.’

The priest and the rabbi repeat the words and look at their own cards while the next number is drawn. ‘Bingo!’ shouts the jedi knight.

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Q. Where do baby jedi bikers go for body art?

A. Tatooine

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Q. How many Jedi's does it take to screw in a light bulb?

A. Just one but he/she must contemplate the amount of force required for the job.

This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Finding the courage

"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do.

There is no courage without being scared.
To see what you are to do but not to do it, is lack of courage."

[Note: This was written by someone who is terribly weak and afraid.]

"We are all essentially good and powerless in the face of events."
Donn Ingle

Hospital torture

Let us see more coagucheck devices and fewer needles in hospitals.

Prayer against self-pity

'I pray – because it is no easy thing to do – that no matter what happens to me, I may never feel sorry for myself.'

'May I also never be full of myself.'

Dack (Luke’s gunner): “Right now I feel like I could take on the whole Empire myself!”

Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

‘We are lambs but we are also lions and Spartans, and we will fight to the end and die roaring!’ 

[See movie ‘300’ (2006)  for King Leonidas’ death-roar]

Taking Risks

“He who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing; for the greatest hazard in life is never taking any risks.”

The above quote is what I remembered. A little googling seems to have furnished the real McCoy:

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Leo F. Buscaglia (American, 1924-1998)

‘But take the right risks, dare the right things, chase the right person.’

“He who dares wins.”

“Fortune favours the bold.”
Virgil (Roman poet, 70 B.C. - 19.B.C.)

Mozart and Maple syrup

There is a Chinese proverb which goes something like this:’ Enjoy yourself, it is later than you think.’

So, play the Mozart or music every day, if you can, and treat yourself to Maple syrup and expensive stuff (don’t break the bank though).