4April2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
Thoughts On Being A Cowboy…
Someone called me a “COWBOY”. It bothered me for a while, but the more I think about it, the more glad I am. You see, when I was a kid, cowboys were my heroes. There was Bill Picket, Nate Love, Tom Mix, Buck Jones, Johnny Mack Brown, Hopalong Cassidy, Red Ryder, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, John Wayne, Marshal Matt Dillon, The Rifleman, and many others. Personally I think Roy Rogers could beat them all up and then sing a song afterward to his girlfriend. He was my favorite.
What made the cowboys so special? What were the common attributes of these legendary men? Here are a few.
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3April2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
** HANDBOOK FOR LIFE **
Health:
1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a
beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food
that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s — Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy
5. Make time to pray.
6. Play more games
7. Read more books than you did in last year .
8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
9. Sleep for 7 hours.
10.Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily and, while you walk, smile. Read the rest of this entry »
1April2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
Always remember to love yourself,
For the person that you are,
Put all doubts and fears upon the shelf,
And from them you’ll go far.
Seek out positive people for friends,
That you enjoy to be around,
For true bonds of friendship never ends,
Once it has been found.
Learn to forgive yourself,
As well as friend and foe,
Mistakes we make is how we learn,
And from them we can grow.
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30March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
Keeping Faith
is knowing that life is a gift,
and each day we have
on earth is precious;
Keeping faith
is climbing above the clouds
and dancing on stardust;
Keeping faith
is knowing the value of
friendship and love;
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28March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
DON’T LEAVE IT ON THE DESK
There was a certain Professor of Religion named Dr. Christianson, a studious man, who taught at a small college in the western United States. Dr. Christianson taught the required survey course in Christianity at this particular institution. Every student was required to take this course his freshman year, regardless of his or her major.
Although Dr. Christianson tried hard to communicate the essence of the gospel in his class, he found that most of his students looked upon the course as nothing but required drudgery. Despite his best efforts, most students refused to take Christianity seriously. Read the rest of this entry »
23March2010
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If you think today’s teachers exhibit elements of technophobia, try on for size these quotes that we imagine might have been spoken in the past…
“Students today depend too much on hand-held calculators.” (Anonymous, 1985)
“Ballpoint pens will be the ruin of education in our country. Students use these devices and then throw them away. The American virtues of thrift and frugality are being discarded. Business and banks will never allow such expensive luxuries.” (Federal Teacher, 1950)
“Students today depend upon these expensive fountain pens. They can no longer write with a straight pen and nib, (not to mention sharpen their own quills). We parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to the detriment of learning how to cope in the real business world, which is not so extravagant.” (PTA Gazette, 1941)
“Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or ciphers until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education.” (The Rural American Teacher, 1929)
“Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil.” (National Association of Teachers, 1907)
“Students today depend upon paper too much. They don’t know how to write on slate without chalk dust all over themselves. They can’t clean a slate properly. What will they do when they run out of paper?” (Principal’s Association, 1815)
“Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate their problems. They depend upon their slates, which are more expensive. What will they do when their slate is dropped and it breaks? They will be unable to write!” (Teachers Conference, 1703)
21March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
Watch Yourself Go By
By: Strickland Gillilan
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by;
Think of yourself as “he” instead of “I.”
Note, closely as in other men you note
The bag-kneed trousers and the seedy coat.
Pick flaws; find fault; forget the man is you,
And strive to make your estimate ring true.
Confront yourself and look you in the eye-
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
Interpret all your motives just as though
You looked on one whose aims you did not know.
Let undisguised contempt surge through you when
You see you shirk, O commonest of men!
Despise your cowardice; condemn whate’er
You note of falseness in you anywhere.
Defend not one defect that shames your eye-
Just stand aside and watch yourself go by.
And then, with eyes unveiled to what you loathe,
To sins that with sweet charity you’d clothe,
Back to your self-walled tenement you’ll go
With tolerance for all who dwell below.
The faults of others then will dwarf and shrink,
Love’s chain grows stronger by one mighty link,
When you, with “he” as substituted for “I,”
Have stood aside and watched yourself go by.
### source: www.artofmanliness.com
9March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Humor.
A friend and I were visiting Annapolis. On a tour of the U.S. Naval Academy, we noticed that a handful of students were in the courtyard, on their hands and knees, with pencils and clipboards in hand.
“What are they doing?” my friend asked our tour guide.
“Each year,” he replied with a grin, “the upperclassmen ask the freshmen how many bricks it took to finish this courtyard.”
“So what’s the answer?” my friend asked him when we were out of earshot of the freshmen.
The guide replied simply, “One.”
3March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
“If God granted 60 Minutes an interview, what would he say? When asked what surprises him most about mankind, He says it’s that people are in a rush to grow up and then long to be children again; that they lose their health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health. When asked what are the most important lessons of life, he says he’d like people to learn that it takes years to build trust and only a few seconds to destroy it. That a rich person is not the one who has the most but who needs the least. That it’s not enough to forgive others. People must also learn to forgive themselves.”
2March2010
Posted by Ed Conti under: Uncategorized.
Each morning we are born again.
What we do today is what matters most.
-Buddha
This is the beginning of a new day.
You have been given this day to use as you will.
You can waste it or use it for good.
What you do today is important
because you are exchanging
a day of your life for it.
When tomorrow comes,
this day will be gone forever;
in its place is something
that you have left behind…
…let it be something good.
-unknown
