As you may recall, I
introduced January, 2013
with Advice and
Philosophies
from my collection of
yearly calendar quotes.
Excellence: Doing
the common things uncommonly well.
(Orison Swett Marden)
Patience: The
slow rhythm of waiting. (Adrian Cowell)
Devotion: The
way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.(Gilbert Chesterton)
Life: I
try to take life one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me
at once.
(Anonymous)
Winners expect to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. (Anonymous)
All Things are difficult before they are
easy. (John Norley & Thomas Fuller)
Faith is necessary for victory. (William Hazlitt)
From my 2013
Motivation Calendar with Invitation to Action:
Learn: It is a good thing to learn caution
from the
misfortunes of others. (Publilius Syrus)
(picture of a lone
scuba diver among underwater reeds;
lurking above him
is a mammoth gray shark!)
Are you familiar with
these special event days this month?
* February 2 ~ Groundhog Day and World Wetlands
Day
February 10
~ Chinese New Year
February 12
~ Shrove Tuesday
February 13
~ Ash Wednesday
February 14
~ Valentine's Day
February 15
~ National Flag of Canada Day
February 18
~ Family Day (celebrated in British Columbia,
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario)
February 25
~ Full moon
“Pearl of
Wisdom”
Picture 3 skiers
excitedly jumping off moguls
on a brisk winter
day:
One cannot
consent to creep
when one feels
an impulse to SOAR!
(Helen Keller)
* A Few Whimsical Thoughts ~ Did you know?
The Groundhog is a member of the squirrel family?
The first official Groundhog Day was on February 2, 1887
at Gobbler’s Knob
(PA) about 65 miles
northeast of Pittsburgh.
“Punxsutawny Phil” (United States), the world’s most
famous Groundhog has his
origins with German settlers in the 18th century. Canada’s version stars
“Wiarton Willie” whose home is
near the Bruce Peninsula (Ontario).
What happened when the Groundhog met the dog catcher?
He
became a “pound dog”!
A Most Wonderful Groundhog Day!
Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband,
“I bet you don’t know
what day this is!”
what day this is!”
“Of course, I do!” he answered indignantly as he slammed
the door and drove
to his office.
At 11 am the doorbell rang. There at her front door, was an UPS driver;
in his hand was a box containing a dozen red roses. Later at 2 pm there was
another knock at her door; this time it was a deluxe box of Belgian chocolates.
in his hand was a box containing a dozen red roses. Later at 2 pm there was
another knock at her door; this time it was a deluxe box of Belgian chocolates.
Eventually, her husband came home, tired after a hard
day’s work.
His wife greeted him by saying, “First the flowers, then
the chocolates.
I’ve never had a more wonderful Groundhog’s Day in my
life!”
Merle Baird-Kerr...written January 24,
2013
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