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Generosity and Courage

Here are a few more little tidbits that caught my eye...

A monk who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day he met another traveler who was hungry, and the monk opened his bag to share his food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone in the monk's bag, admired it, and asked the monk to give it to him. The monk did so without hesitation.

The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the jewel was worth enough to give him security for the rest of his life.

It's been a while...

...since I've been here, but life goes on, and I've been running to keep up!

I stumbled across this today, and thought that it might help someone else refocus -- it certainly bruised a few of my own toes...:

... On Happiness

Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.

Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has some sorrow mixed in with the gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.

The Tale of the Two Monks

The Tale of the Two Monks and the Woman

In an attempt to NOT feed the trolls!!

A distinguished member of this website declared:

"Guns don't infuriate people. Unthinking attitudes about them do."

I *REALLY* wanted to respond -- however, I don't believe that this issue is a "Hangout" issue, so I'm doing my part to take the discussion elsewhere (namely, here.)

Trolls

I am a computer geek, who has been around since the infancy of the internet. I have endured 300-baud modems, online bulletin boards, BiTNET digests and pre-Email Email. I have witnessed the rise and fall of the <BLINK> tag, sliding content, and unformatted, 30-screen-long web pages. I saw the beginning of the Nigerian fake check scam, the phony money order scam, and spam mail. And with all of the bad things that have come and gone, the worst has come and stayed...

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