Come again another day

I'm fairly surprised I haven't written about this yet.  While I've done some posts about weather, I have not done one about the little droplets of water that fall from the sky.  Today started off nice and chilly, but within a few hours, the rain clouds came and have not let up for long.  While looking for quotes on this, I started to love the dual meanings.  So here are three quotes to ponder.  Try to link them to aspects or people in your life.

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.” - G. K. Chesterton

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” - Roger Miller

Do you walk in the rain or get wet?

 

Tear down that wall

Language, cultural, political, geographical, technological...we come across barriers throughout our daily existence.  Within the past two days, 4 out of those 5 have created conflicts for me.  After reading the quote below and thinking about it, I do wonder if both sides need to create the barrier or if it is one sided at times.

“There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.” - Ronald Reagan

Have you put up any barriers lately?

Nighty night

My sleep patterns have been off a bit lately.  I get sleep, but at different intervals and with various results.  I'm still working on finding the right formula.

“Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can't help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won't want to worry.” - B. C. Forbes

How has your sleep been?

Gossip has it

True or false, I've been subject to my fair share of rumors throughout life.  We rarely are the cause of them and rarely have control of them.  And the speed at which they can be communicated is staggering.

“Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.” - Shana Alexander

Have you ever succesfully squashed a rumor?

 

Activity in the mind

I've seen two movies today where insanity is a theme in them.  In both, the heroes are not really insane or break beyond it.  So it seemed appropriate to find a quote for it.

“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Is your mind overtaxed?

Every which way

No theme for today.  Just an amusing one going into the weekend.

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche 

Which is your way?

 

Kind to all

A neighbor was having work done on their building at 7am this morning.  In my area, that is not uncommon.  The workers try to start as early as they legally can so they can move on to the next job and get home early to repeat the next day.  The problem was that the tenant of the building was not told by the landlord that work was going to be done.  Instead waking to the sound of their alarm clock, it was the sounds of a ladder being banged around and excessive cursing, and I do mean excessive, that stirred them.  Some times a little courtesy can go a long way.

“Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own” - John Wanamaker 

What lack of courtesy have you seen lately?