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Serving Lemonade: Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive. If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.". We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.". Alfred E. Neuman. The goodness factor: moral excellence; virtue; kindness; generosity; excellence of quality. What is goodness? That subtle shift makes all the difference and determines the goodness quotient of our results - the quality of the lemonade we make.
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Serving Lemonade: January 2013
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013. I love mankind, it's people I can't stand." Linus in Peanuts. Did you know that today, January 29, 2013, is National Curmudgeon Day in honor of the birthday of that great American curmudgeon W. C. Fields? And yet, could there be a redeeming value to being a curmudgeon? Wielding the sword of truth is a delicate matter. Used with just the right degree of irony it can cause a slight irritation that brings a sudden release of insight and a burst of laughter. Used with too m...To ad...
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Serving Lemonade: May 2013
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Thursday, May 9, 2013. As You Like It". All the world's a stage,. And all the men and women merely players:. They have their exits and their entrances;. And one man in his time plays many parts. I have come to see the appearance of lemons as the heralds of yet another coming production. Depending upon how consciously I deal with the lemons determines the extent of the upcoming production. I. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. In his blog o...
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Serving Lemonade: September 2013
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Thursday, September 26, 2013. What part of no do you not understand? I pause to let that sink in - the fierceness of their nature to defend and destroy is balanced by the word no that is respected and listened to. Obviously, they do understand all parts of no. How different would the "civilized" world be if we listened to a well reasoned no, enough, stop. I have often wondered how much is enough - is your first billion enough? How about your second? Has enough concrete been laid down for subdivisions?
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Serving Lemonade: Alchemy - Dross into Gold
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Thursday, September 25, 2014. Alchemy - Dross into Gold. It is not an easy thing to embrace ugliness with the sole motive of hope that in some unknown way a transformation into beauty might occur thereby. But the myth of kissed frogs turning into princes remains.". M Scott Peck, M.D. Ugliness invokes such a current of strong emotions that it puts us in a flight or fight mode. Embrace it? It is counter- intuitive. How exactly does one embrace it? Peck, in his book, quotes an old priest, "There are dozens ...
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Serving Lemonade: June 2013
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013. Goodness Gracious Sakes Alive. If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.". We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.". Alfred E. Neuman. The goodness factor: moral excellence; virtue; kindness; generosity; excellence of quality. What is goodness? That subtle shift makes all the difference and determines the goodness quotient of our results - the quality of the lemonade we make.
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Serving Lemonade: Ding Dong! The King Is Dead!
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Sunday, July 14, 2013. The King Is Dead! But we have to verify it legally to see.If "he" is morally, ethic'lly, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably and reliably dead." Wizard of Oz. My apologies to lyricist, Harold Arlen, for altering the "she" to "he" but it is hard to improve on perfection when extrapolating the wicked witch's death in the Wizard of Oz. And relating it to what is happening on today's world political, economic front.). Or are we at a point of history where we are...
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Serving Lemonade: March 2013
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Saturday, March 23, 2013. Complexity,Thy Name is Woman. The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple." Alice Munroe. I do not wish for women to have power over men; but over themselves." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met." Farrah Fawcett. Ny men were worrying about the same thing." Gloria Steinem. With all due res...
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Serving Lemonade: A Waffling We Shall Go
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014. A Waffling We Shall Go. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." Victor Frankl. There is a difference between being wishy-washy and flexible. Wishy-washy stands for nothing. It comes from fear and avoidance of making a decision because you are afraid you might be wrong. So what? Check out what research on the ability to change your mind. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A Waffling We Shall Go. Are you – Nobody – too?