A Few Thoughts
Crawfordsburn Country Park - March 2005
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“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” - Randy Pausch
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There’s a plan for everyone if you are open to it and ready to unlearn the rules set up by others.
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“Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” — General Douglas MacArthur
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The more you complain…. the longer God makes you live.
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“On your deathbed, will your final thought be I wish I cared more?”
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Crawfordsburn Country Park -August 2005
Nick said,
April 18, 2009 at 8:48 am
Ah yes, Crawfordsburn’s a lovely spot. Also the walk from there along Belfast Lough of course. I like the MacArthur quote. Enthusiasm and passion are definitely what spur you on and bring everything to life.
Annb said,
April 18, 2009 at 9:20 am
What a lovely way to start a Saturday - thanks Grannymar you always mange to make me smile. I’m currently working off the maxim that ‘No problem is too big that it can’t be run away from!!” from that great font of wisdom Charlie Brown of Peanuts cartoon fame. An under rated guru in my view!
Nancy said,
April 18, 2009 at 2:08 pm
“On your deathbed, will your final thought be I wish I cared more?”
Sometimes what we care about most gets all used up and goes away…never to return. So..while we have it..it’s best we love it..Care for it.. fix it when it’s broken..And heal it when it’s sick.
Anonymous
Nancy said,
April 18, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Having said that…Here is the story of other people who cared.
” The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000.
At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the sea amid cheers and applause from onlookers.
One minute later,in full view of everyone, a killer whale ate them both.”
rummuser said,
April 18, 2009 at 3:58 pm
This is just like our pre monsoon and post monsoon sights around Pune. We are in a sort of valley of the Western Ghats as they are called and the water streams start to dwindle by the time it is summer and from the first week of June, they start to flow again.
kenju said,
April 18, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I love waterfalls and quotes! Like the in-betweens, too.
Darlene said,
April 18, 2009 at 4:30 pm
“The longer you complain, the longer God makes you live.”
Now I know why I’m still here at nearly 84 years old. I think I will start complaining more loudly.
Grannymar said,
April 18, 2009 at 5:08 pm
@Nick - I have walked along the lough in various stages but never the whole walk in one go. Who knows…. perhaps one day.
@Annb - The problems I seem to run away from these days are the difficult physical chores I took in my stride a few years ago.
@Nancy - I totally agree with your first quote. As for the second… who are we to say that a whale’s life is less important than that of a couple of seals?
@Ramana - Our temperate climate and abundance of rain means we are seldom without water. Our water might be good for making tea, Guinness and whiskey but it plays hell with the rheumatism!
@Judy - I wonder who taught me about the in-betweens?
@Darlene - You and me both!
Ian said,
April 18, 2009 at 8:08 pm
I was told once that on your deathbed the thing you never say is, “I wish I had spent more time at the office”
Grannymar said,
April 18, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Ian,
I’ll let you know when I get there!
Magpie11 said,
April 18, 2009 at 9:47 pm
I love waterfalls….
Nancy…I think that’s the way the world is going….
Baino said,
April 19, 2009 at 4:56 am
Oh Nancy . .that reminds me of the time we used a ‘humane’ mouse catcher and caught three of them. We took them about 500metres down the road and released them only to see them scoffed by crows! Ah well . .at least we cared. Nice one Grannymar and I’m trying very, very hard to unlearn the rules set by others! Does that include having a chardy before the sun’s over the yardarm? Good . .
Grannymar said,
April 19, 2009 at 8:10 am
Baino,
You are learning!
wisewebwoman said,
April 19, 2009 at 8:27 am
The epitaph no one needs:
Died at 60, Buried at 80
I love the 2 mood of the waterfall.
XO
WWW
Oh, and another really sad one:
“99% of us die with our music locked within us.”
Grannymar said,
April 19, 2009 at 8:38 am
WWW,
Two very sad epitaphs. I hope they are not a reflection of your mood.
rummuser said,
April 19, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Did you know that WOGs are the only ones left that drink single malt whiskies with “branch water”? WOG incidentally means Westernized Oriental Gentleman. I used to be called that.
Just see http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1248/what-is-branch-water
Grannymar said,
April 19, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Ramana - My father always drank whiskey with a dash of water, alas it came from the tap and not as stream. In Dublin he would have died of thirst before he found a stream or waterfall!