Ain't Nothing You Can Do ...

Jewish humor has it that a rookie recruit for the

New York City Police had passed all of his examinations

except public health. The police surgeon said,

"Well, Murphy, you've done very well.

I'll ask you one question and if you do all right on that,

you can become a cop."

He wanted to ask him how he would respond

if a rabid dog bit somebody; for instance, what does he

 know about the disease,how would he treat the victim, whom would he call and so forth.

The doctor said, "Now, tell me, what is rabies,

and what are you going to do about it?"

"Well, Captain," Murphy replied, "rabies is Jewish priests,

and there ain't nothin' you can do about it."

There "ain't nothin' you can do" about quite a

few situations!  And it's true with people, too.

There ain't nothin' you can do about the
way they are, so it is fruitless to try to change

them into something else.

You are wise to learn to accept them

without conditions,
understand them the best you can and

love them anyway.

For they probably won't change much and there

just ain't nothin' you can do about it.

Sam Keen Christine said, "We come to love,

not by finding a perfect person,

but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

" It's all about acceptance."

from

You Life Support

~Steve Goodier

Let me touch you for a while by Alison Krauss

Family and Friends

Rhonda and I

Aventures

First night in Athens

Picture Perfect Friday ~ Collective

A big thank you once again, Heather.

It is my weekend and week to work so will not be able

to get around to all and that is always a disappointment ~ may

just have to do some catching up next week!

I enjoy everyones blogs so much!

Several ways to go with collective ~ I decided on a

collective noun or name, that being

a wing of fighter jets.

I, too, now have streched the rules (that is a nice way of

saying I have broken the rules) as I did not make this picture

BUT I did not get it off the net ~ it was made for me, as of

course, I had no way to be thousands of feet above the earth

to capture it. This is a photo of two F4 fighter jets. The F4's

and their pilots touched a big part of my life and are very dear

to me. I appriciate and respect the pilots and navagitors of

each of these jets as I do all our men that put their life

on the line for us everyday!

It touches me to see a wing of fighter jets.

So many times I've heard the collective engine roar

soaring thousands of feet about the earth.

Like brave eagles they are far above the ground.

Collectively they are wing to wing

on a mission for our nations right from birth,

to have it's freedom ring from every corner.

Of this there is no doubt:

Jet noice ~ it's the sound of Freedom

Wishing each and everyone

a wonderful weekend!

Love & Compassion

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

~Bertrand Russell

adapted

How far you go in life depends

on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and

tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in life

you will have been all of these.

~George Washington Carver

...when we finally know we are dying,

and all other sentient beings are dying with us,

we start to have a burning,

almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility

and preciousness of each moment and each being,

and from this can grow

a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

~Sogyal Rinpoche

May you each

have a week full of

joy, love, & compassion!