Smile for Today ~

We all know the feeling of love and anticipation when a child runs up to us and from their hand to ours presents us with a special bouquet of flowers ~ Nature hands us a bouquet everyday.

Reminder:  Today, 1:30 p.m., our guest is Jill Marshall, author of  To the Arctic and Home Again.

32nd President of the USA ~ FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (1882 - 1945)

"A Radical is a man with both feet firmly planted -- in the air.

A Conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A Reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

A Liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest, at the command, of his head."

      Radio address, October 26, 1939.

     

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.  That, in its essence, is Fascism ~ ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."

     Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938.

~  THE GREAT THOUGHTS...the ideas that have shaped the history of the world. Compiled by George Seldes, Ballantine, 1985.

Thursday, October 17 The Neat L'l Bookshop

From working in her pajamas (in her home office) to rescuing a "scrawny balding white chicken playing Russian roulette in the middle of the intersection," writer Jill Marshall has given us an insight into the Marshall family home-life.

On Thursday, October 17, 1:30 p.m.  Jill will be in The Neat L'l Bookshop.  Join us for what promises to be a fun afternoon.  (Note the change in time, 1:30 p.m., from our usual 1:00.)

 

GRATITUDE by Edgar A. Guest

Be grateful for the kindly friends
     That walk along your way;
Be grateful for the skies of blue
     That smile from day to day;

Be grateful for the health you own,
    The work you find to do,
For round about you there are men
     Less fortunate than you.

Be grateful for the growing trees,
     The roses soon to bloom,
The tenderness of kindly hearts
     That shared your days of gloom;

Be grateful for the morning dew,
     The grass beneath your feet,
The soft caresses of your babes
     And all their laughter sweet.

Acquire the grateful habit,
     Learn to see how blest you are,
How much there is to gladden life,
     How little life to mar!

And what if rain shall fall today
     And you with grief are sad;
Be grateful that you can recall
     The joys that you have had.

*Edgar A. Guest "The Poet of the People."  American poet.  His work first appeared in 1895 (age fourteen) in the Detroit Free Press ~ his column was syndicated in over three hundred newspapers.

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