Moods Warmth and Truth in Flowers

All things in life are temporary.
If going well enjoy it, they will not last forever.
If going wrong don't worry, they can't last long either.

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What did the carrot say to the wheat?
Lettuce rest, I'm feeling beet.
- Shel Silverstein

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Stutterers Living in the USA - from Howard D - added January 25, 2009

During the Buffalo conference, a busload of us went up to Canada. When we got to the border upon our return to the US, an immigration officer came on board the bus.

In a less than friendly, and far too authoritarian tone, he told us that all he needed to know from each of us was our country of citizenship. He then proceeded down the aisle, stopping at each row of seats, and pointing to each person. "Citizenship?" he said, as he pointed at each person.

Talk about performance anxiety! The first couple of "U...U...U...S's" seemed to go over his head, but after a few more, he started getting suspicious, curious, and concerned. Finally, someone explained to him who we were, and he relaxed.

But it was one of the funniest stuttering experiences of my life.

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Moods

Insane I walk on full moons beams

I know the path. I walk up streams.

They cool my feet while my soul burns

Like hot red coals on water steams

The embers flick off of my brain

And scatter quickly but refrain

From speaking out explaining why

It is they flicker, just to die.

So aimlessly and without cause

Like me, they circle up and pause

Then look around as though to see

IF someone else lurks round like me.

Then clouds surround and crowd the moon

My eyes they close, I start to swoon,

Oh blissful sleep, how long I've waited

The peace you bring is clearly understated.

The embers cool, my feet grow warm

Insanity departs in scorn

And leaves me all alone to lie

Till morrow brings a friendlier sky

Jan 29/1991

A Lady's Life

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Believe it or not.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

Generally speaking, half of all false teeth , have some form of radioactivity.

The European Space Agency's Olympus Satellite was the only one destroyed in 1993 by a meteor.

Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Your elbows get black when you have them on your morning paper because the paper does not have much starch and is therefore cheaper paper.

Sterling silver is not pure silver. Because pure silver is too soft to be used in most tableware it is mixed with copper in the proportion of 92.5 percent silver to 7.5 percent copper.

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

The Certifiable World.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.
Socrates

Thank God my husband is no philospher lol Thats my job lol

(oops?)

I have an aunt by marriage who is suffering from Epilepsy. She had a hard life struggling with this disease and recently had a brain hemorrhage.
Although she began to talk and answer questions, this morning the doctor said she was in deep sleep.
So what does this all mean Coma?
Is this the end? Well it would not be such a bad thing if God decided to take this poor woman and give her life everlasting where she could live in peace and tranquility.
My own Mom got Parkinsons and Alzheimers as a side effect from the pills they gave her.
The doctors over dozed her and damaged her brain and it went from there. She lived in the country and we had a plane fly by spraying the corn fields.
The water of course, came from under the ground.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you."
Rita Mae Brown

So as a matter of curiosity, I began to do a little search as to how many people have brain afflictions.If it is of interest to me it might be of interest to many.
First I found stats having to do with Schizophrenia.
Australia has around 285,000 cases
Britain has 280,000 cases,
Canada has 280,000 plus
the US has 2.2 million
India has4.3 - 8.7 cases,
china has 6- 12 million cases.
They say it can be triggered by many things like stress in pregnancy, genes, marijuana and other brain altering drugs,
People can begin having it from 15 years of age.
In the US , in 2002, 62.7 billion was spent dealing with the issue of Schizophrenia.Out of three million people, 21,000 could have this affliction.
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Parkinsons world wide 6 million cases and many undiagnosed
Canada has 100,000 cases of Parkinsons
The US has around 1 000 000 cases
Britain has 800,000 cases
China around 1,200,000

Italy 407 out of 100,000 population
Nebraska, USA is very high 329.3 people/100,000

from highest to lowest/100.000 pop
Sweden 22.5/100,000 pop
Faeroe Islands 21.1
US 20.5/100,000 pop
Japan 16.9
Estonia 16.8/100,000 pop
Finland 16.6
Norway 12.6
England 12/100,000 pop
Bulgaria 11.6
Netherlands 11.5
Italy 10,4
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Alzheimers Dimentia
India 3-4 mill
US 4.5 mill
Canada 420,000 and by 2031 they expect 3/4 million people to have it
England 750,000
Iran 6% of 4,200,00 people or 250,000 people Is Khomeini one of them? How about Khadafi?
We know Reagan had it as President.
France 1.3 mill expected to have it by 2020
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Brain Tumors in US

On January 1, 2002, in the United States, there were approximately 105,960 people (56,865 men and 49,095 women) alive who had a history of brain cancer. This includes any person alive on January 1, 2002, who had been diagnosed with brain cancer at any point prior to January 1, 2002, people with active disease, and those who had been cured of their disease.

Race/Ethnicity	Men	Women
All Races	6.3 per 100,000 men	3.2 per 100,000 women
Caucasian	5.6 per 100,000 men	2.8 per 100,000 women
African American	12.8 per 100,000 men	6.3 per 100,000 women
Asian/Pacific Islander	11.2 per 100,000 men	6.8 per 100,000 women
American Indian/Alaska Native	7.3 per 100,000 men	4.1 per 100,000 women
Hispanic	9.5 per 100,000 men	5.3 per 100,000 women

Brain Cancer Statistics Article

The current estimated human population for the planet earth in 2010 is 6,865,300,000 by the United States Census Bureau. The United Nations estimates that world population will be over the 7,000,000,000 mark in 2011. Recent U.N. organized surveys performed in multiple countries have found the average percentage of people who suffer from some sort of cancer is 31%. The American Cancer Society has found similar numbers in its studies of North and South America.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_people_get_cancer_in_world#ixzz1ELaNwxmd

I know a lot of people who died from brain tumors but did not find any quick stats available.
I don't know why we sit worrying about wars etc. when most of the world is or will be insane pretty soon.
lol
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crazy quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Opinions are like feet. Everybody's got a couple, and they usually stink.
Jim Slattery

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen W. Hawking

Life is like a role of toilet paper; hopefully long and useful, but it always ends at the wrong moment.
Rudyh

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yup

We are all certifiable lol
We are all the same where disease is concerned and if the brain is diseased then there is not much hope for anyone. So George Carlin was right when he mentioned the planet being able to take care of itself.
People are dying from HIV. Germs know how to survive our antibacterial products. Cancer requires no oxygen to live . We destroy our planet and then sit rotting in hospitals where there are no answers.

It is scary that the world today is also controlled by people who we do not know, and especially if when we do not know if they are sane or not.

We probably wage wars because of insanity.
We require answers as why we get disfunctional brains and solutions to this problem , sooner rather than later.
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The psychology instructor had just finished a lecture on mental health and was giving an oral test.

Speaking specifically about manic depression, she asked, "How would you diagnose a patient who walks back and forth screaming at the top of his lungs one minute, then sits in a chair weeping uncontrollably the next?"

A young man in the rear raised his hand and answered, "A basketball coach?"
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Mary was having a tough day and had stretched herself out on the couch to do a bit of what she thought to be well-deserved complaining and self- pitying.

She moaned to her mom and brother, "Nobody loves me ... the whole world hates me!"

Her brother, busily occupied playing a game, hardly looked up at her and passed on this encouraging word: "That's not true, Mary. Some people don't even know you."

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From the Northwest Florida Daily News comes this story:

A Crestview couple who drove their car to Wal-Mart, only to have their car break down in the parking lot. The man told his wife to carry on with the shopping while he fixed the car in the lot. The wife returned later to see a small group of people near the car.

On closer inspection, she saw a pair of male legs protruding from under the chassis. Although the man was in
shorts, his lack of underpants turned private parts into glaringly public ones. Unable to stand the embarrassment, she dutifully stepped forward, quickly put her hand UP his shorts, and tucked everything back into place. She took a
deep breath and stood up boldly to face the crowd.

She looked across the hood and found herself staring at her husband, who had been standing idly by. The mechanic, however, had to have three stitches in his forehead…

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We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Have a good one folks :)

Portrait Sketch

I love doing portraits
This is a sketch I did of my son this morning

It's amazing how your children take on features that are a mix of not only your
husband and yourself but also of grandparents and even great grandparents.
You get to see this a lot more clearly when you begin to draw them.

How they change from 2 - 10 -17 is amazing, and you wish that they'd stay small
cause they don't let you kiss their chubby cheeks anymore after they are grown.
lol

And well.... cheeks aren't chubby any more either. lol
Overnight, they become young men and women you don't recognize anymore.

And yet.......through pictures you see traces from the past.
Traces from faces which now are both deja vous and the future.

It gives you a funny feeling inside.
:)

Wanna know more about Christmas??

What do elves learn in school?
A: The Elf-abet!

Q: If athletes get athletes foot, what do astronauts get?
A: Missletoe!

Q: Why was Santa's little helper depressed?
A: Because he had low elf esteem.

Q: Why does Santa have 3 gardens?
A: So he can ho-ho-ho.

Q: Where do polar bears vote?
A: The North Poll.

Q: What do you get when you cross an archer with a gift-wrapper?
A: Ribbon hood.

Q: Why do birds fly south for the winter?
A: Because it's to far to walk.

Q: What was wrong with the boy's brand new toy electric train set he received for Christmas?
A: Forty feet of track - all straight!

Q: What kind of bird can write?
A: A PENguin.

Q: How does Al Gore's household keep Christmas politically correct?
A: On Christmas morning, they give the presents TO the tree.

Q: What do you call a cat on the beach at Christmas time?
A: Sandy Claus!

Q: How do sheep in Mexico say Merry Christmas?
A: Fleece Navidad!

Q: What nationality is Santa Claus?
A: North Polish.

Q: Why does Santa's sled get such good mileage?
A: Because it has long-distance runners on each side.

Q: What do you call a bunch of grandmasters of chess bragging about their games in a hotel lobby?
A: Chess nuts boasting in an open foyer!

Q: What do you get if you deep fry Santa Claus?
A: Crisp Cringle.

Q: What did the ghosts say to Santa Claus?
A: We'll have a boo Christmas without you.

Q: What did Santa shout to his toys on Christmas Eve?
A: Okay everyone, sack time!!

Q: What do snowmen eat for breakfast?
A: Snowflakes.

Q: If Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus had a child, what would he be called?
A: A subordinate claus.

Q: Why did the elf push his bed into the fireplace?
A: He wanted to sleep like a log.

Q: Why did Santa spell Christmas N-O-E?
A: Because the angel had said, "No L!"

Q: What goes Ho, Ho, Swoosh, Ho, Ho, Swoosh?
A: Santa caught in a revolving door!

THe French Baguette

Fall is a great time to begin making home made bread.

As a student my husband used to come home and put a batch of dough to rise while he studied and then bake a few loaves
before going to bed at night. He always loved the smell of dough in the house.

(Or maybe he was hungry .lol
He’ll never tell.)

Baking bread in cold weather gives the house this cozy feeling and I also love the smell and especially French baguettes.

Well, one thing I learned about yeast dough may be of interest to some people.

After making a batch of dough and letting it rise, you have to punch it down to let out the gas, and knead again to make your loaves to leave to rise again.

Well when you punch it down to begin to knead, you can take out a small portion of dough and remix it with new flour to let rise again.
It becomes sour dough.
You can continue doing this over and over with the same yeast as the yeast will continue to work multiplying itself.

Then every day you can have your children come home to freshly baked buns and a nice smelling home.
There was trouble at the bakery last night!
Yes, I heard - two stale buns tried to get fresh.
A good baker will rise to the occasion. It’s the yeast he can do.
Old bakers never die, they just keep making lots of dough.

The gingerbread man thought he couldn't be caught, until he met his baker.

The father who worked as a baker was a real breadwinner.

A baker always put too much flour in his bread because he was a gluten for punishment.