Lets Jump Together

While I was driving in the car today, I listened to NPR as I usually do.
At noon today, they had on the This American Life program, and it was centered around money and just “what” it was.
I found it more interesting than I thought it was going to be, and it really had me thinking.
When [...]

It is always hard to let go of the summer.
We cling to it as autumn slowly begins to creep in.
The leaves slowly change until one morning you look out and it seems as if it happened overnight.
Then you get a glorious day like today - 81 degrees and bright sunshine everywhere.
The leaves are practically glowing [...]

Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg

How easy it is to let others decide things for us sometimes.
And sometimes that is just what is [...]

If you don’t think every day is a good one, just try missing one.
-by Cavett Robert

I read this one and had to share it.
Quite often it is too easy to get drawn into a bad attitude and let it ruin the day for yourself and the others around you.
Not being able to experience a [...]

I am not one to preach and hound about many things, but after an experience I had today, I thought I had better pass along a reminder.
Times are tight everywhere which makes desparate people even more desparate.
They do stupid and dangerous things which may involve you.
Don’t be a victim, use your common sense, and don’t [...]

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough..

- by Randy Pausch

This quote is part of the the Last Lecture by [...]

A young boy said to his mother, ‘How old were you when I was born?’ His mother replied, ‘23.’ ‘Wow, that’s a lot of time we missed spending together.’

-author unknown

I thought this was a sweet one for Mother’s Day.

Our children are in our hearts forever.

Happy Mother’s Day blessings!