QUOTES from the Sandbox ~ Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019

 Michael Jacobs ,  I recall asking one of my nine children a few years ago what he felt was his Mission in this lifetime...what he felt was his sacred contract with God.  His very serious reply: " To do better this time than I did before." 

Myrl Jeffcoat, you know I often think about this -- that people absolutely do not realize, how much a little act of kindness helps another...how far even a smile goes.  In fact, yesterday a few of us were at a new construction site and before we left the woman site manager reached in our car to give me a hug.  Myrl, I was not one of the key parties in our group but it left an impression. Our buyer had already signed the contract a few days before.  Her very respectful hug was thoughtful and perhaps a little thing, but I still think of it today.  

 Carol Williams ,  happy Saturday in Wenatchee, Wa.  Thinking of you way across our nation to the West Coast  and wishing for you and your family a wonderful weekend.

James Dray,  I wish I would have seen more light bulbs go on in Washington DC this past week and seen our representatives be more civil and be prepared to ask more serious and wiser-constructed questions.  I definitely did not feel
the necessity to lower oneself to being uncivil in sentences, remarks, phrases such as:  Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire.   I felt that was left back in 3 and 4 year old
Day Care :)  Going back to the theme I chose for the day, what a contrast:
"A Life that Touches Others Goes on Forever."  

Hi dear Brian England!  I have picked up from your posts and even in reading between the lines of your writing that you understand and live the quotes and the theme ---- the story of the Good Samaritan.  You live your life reaching out to help and love others.  Very noticeable. 

Roy Kelley, how nice of you to share one of the quotes on Facebook today.   I wish for you and Dolores a wonderful Saturday and a relaxing and fun weekend.  Hey, where are the three of us meeting for Happy Hour today?

Debb Janes EcoBroker and Bernie Stea JD, I also love the works  of Kahlil Gibran.  I once took a Saturday plane from Chicago O'Hare Airport to North Carolina. My purpose:  research on Kahlil Gibran at the University of North
Carolina library archives.

At the library,  I was directed to a lonely and isolated basement and given a 'huge' box of Gibran's personal items:  personal mail (even the love letters  between him and Mary Haskell) in their original
envelopes...his notes...his writings...his poetry...his thoughts...and all kinds
of knickknacks - like things we decorate our bookcases and shelves, etc.  I
was surprised beyond words that anyone would be allowed to go through such a personal box in a quiet, solitary library basement archives.  Debb, I noticed 100's of other such boxes on the many shelves in the basement. Evidently donated to the University of North Carolina Library ....Amazing how they carry the box to the table and then leave the researcher all alone with such very important stuff.  It still amazes me even today.  Debb, when I was through with my work, I walked up the steps and reported to the research desk to thank them.  Again I was amazed...I thought I would have to go through cameras and screening, but no, they just let me walk out the door.  That amazed me!  I have another special memory of that afternoon so many years ago...

I felt so great with my 4 hour research - work on a College paper in Chicago.  It was 4:00 PM, raining very softly and as I walked across the beautiful, large  and empty University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus to my lonely car parked on the street far away,, a few squirrels scampered across the lawns and I heard the university's Chapel Hill bells toll '4'...I bent down to pick a few little white flowers growing wildly on the grass. I remember thinking:  I will always remember this day.

Hi Will Hamm, thank you for stopping by.  Sending you wishes for a beautiful Sunday, be it R and R fun or a happy and successful business day.