“quantum entanglement”

A Lifelong Bond

Scientists tell us that there is a most amazing, and thus-far inexplicable, phenomenon called “quantum entanglement.” If two particles of energy are kept in close proximity to each other for a long time, they form a relationship, a kind of bond, that defies the imagination. The connection between these two particles is so strong that if you take one particle to a laboratory in Los Angeles and remove the other one to a lab in New York City, whatever you do to the particle in L.A. will instantly happen to the one in New York, too.

Einstein called it “spooky.” It also defied his theory that nothing can travel faster than light. Somehow, however, once particles form this kind of bond, it cannot be severed no matter how great the distance between the two becomes.

A similar but opposite thing happened between Mary and Elizabeth. In this case, two separate people formed a relationship across a great distance, a relationship that finally drew them together. . . . Mary and Elizabeth also did not live terribly close by each other. But something remarkable, something filled with holy mystery, happened to both of these women and so despite their geographic and chronological distance from each other, these two formed a bond across that distance—a bond that would last the rest of their lives.

~ Scott Hoezee, comments and observations on Luke 1:39-55

"Sometimes you miss so much that you forget you are better without them."

"Sometimes you miss so much that you forget you are better without them."

~ attributed to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.quotesbycelebrities.com/marilyn-monroe-quotes/sometimes-you-miss-so-much-you-forget-you

Look like a girl, act like a lady . . .

Look like a girl,
act like a lady,
think like a man and
work like a dog.

~ traditional


Look like a girl,
act like a lady,
think like a man and
work like a boss.

~ attributed to Marilyn Monroe
http://www.quotesbycelebrities.com/marilyn-monroe-quotes/look-girl.-act-lady.-think

"What God loved about Mary was her willingness."

"What God loved about Mary was her willingness."
~ Truthful Grace
(Mary the mother of Jesus)

what God could do with one person wholly committed to his will

"I heard an evangelist say one night: This century has yet to see what God could do with one person wholly committed to his will."
Moody said in his heart of hearts, "By the grace of God, I'll be that person."
~ Baptist preacher D. L. Moody

Joy Rooted in Obedience

Hannah Whitall Smith's classic, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, contains a line that goes to the heart of the issue of joy in the life of faith. "Perfect obedience would result in perfect happiness if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying."
The joy of our celebration is rooted in the obedience of Mary and Joseph and then of Jesus whose heart's desire was to honor God and obediently carry out the work God gave him to do on our behalf.
John P. Jewell, Lectionary Sermons, www.eSermons.com

Employees come first

"Clients do not come first.
Employees come first. 
If you take care of your employees,
they will take care of the clients."
~ Richard Branson

Plan A to Plan Z

"In the start of the season we have Plan A and in the middle we have Plan Z, and then we go around the alphabet like three times."

~ ESTER LEDECKA, on juggling her schedule as she tries to become the first athlete to compete in both skiing and snowboarding at the Olympics.

New York Times quote of the day, November 27, 2017 email

"Not One Expected Me!"

Surprise in Heaven

I dreamt death came the other night
And Heaven’s gate swung wide.
An angel with a halo bright
Ushered me inside.

And there! To my astonishment
Stood folks I’d judged and labeled
As “quite unfit”, “of little worth”,
And “spiritually disabled”.

Indignant words rose to my lips
But never were set free,
For every face showed stunned surprise --
Not one expected me!

~ Anonymous

"Civilized behavior, I believe, is more often measured by what a person restrains himself from doing than by what he does."

Somebody Else's Kids, by Torey L. Hayden
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York
Copyright © 1981 by Torey L. Hayden

quotes, p. 214, regarding Dr. Boom’s “expert” view of Torey’s career lovingly and effectively helping “the slowest children” as a special education resource teacher:

Dr. Boom:
“You are a gifted teacher, you know that.  Why are you wasting yourself here?” . . .
“Here with these children who’ll never amount to anything. . . .
You ought to get yourself into university teaching or some other place where you can do some real good.  You shouldn’t waste yourself here.”

Torey:
I did not answer.  Civilized behavior, I believe, is more often measured by what a person restrains himself from doing than by what he does.

Having Close Friends in Old Age Brings Well-Being

quote from Time Magazine, June 26, 2017, p. 19

IT'S HEALTHIER TO BE CLOSE WITH FRIENDS THAN FAMILY
"A report in Personal Relationships that included 270,000 people worldwide found that having close friends in old age was a stronger predictor of physical and emotional well-being than close family connections."
--J.Z.

Melania Trump tweet about Charlottesville

"Our country encourages freedom of speech, but let's communicate w/o hate in our hearts. No good comes from violence. #Charlottesville.”

(Snopes confirmed that the claim that Melania's tweet copied from a Michelle Obama speech was a bogus spoof, not true.  There is no record of Michelle saying these or similar words.)
http://www.snopes.com/melania-tweet-charlottesville/

Taylor Swift's "sharp, gutsy and satisfying" testimony

New York Times - "Today's Headlines" email
Friday, August 11, 2017

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"I'm being blamed for the unfortunate events of his life that are a product of his decisions. Not mine."

TAYLOR SWIFT, the pop superstar who is being sued by a radio host on claims that she falsely accused him of groping her.

quotes from the trial:

On Mueller's firing Swift said “I am not going to allow your my client to make me feel like it is anyway my fault because it isn’t.”

Comment:

"Just wonderfully stated. Had you kept your hand away - you'd have a job and would not be in court right now."

Swift’s attorney, Douglas Baldridge, said that the star is asking for a $1 verdict because she’s “not trying to bankrupt this man.”
“She’s trying to tell people out there that you can say no when someone puts their hand on you,” added Swift’s counsel. “Grabbing a woman’s rear end is an assault, and it’s always wrong. Any woman — rich, poor, famous or not — is entitled to not have that happen.”

quotes from BBC News:
www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40885437

Taylor Swift wasn't backing down in court

By Mark Savage BBC Music reporter, 11 August 2017

Taylor Swift has been praised for her "sharp, gutsy and satisfying" testimony over allegations of sexual assault.
The pop star claims former radio DJ David Mueller groped her while posing for a photo at one of her concerts in 2013 - a charge which he denies.
"Just like her expertly crafted lyrics, Taylor Swift was precise, self-assured and direct," said Billboard magazine.

Speaking in court, Swift refused to back down or give ground to the DJ's lawyer.
Asked if she was critical of her bodyguard, Swift replied: "I'm critical of your client sticking his hand under my skirt and grabbing my ass".

. . .

According to the reporter, the star bristled when she was asked why she hadn't called off the meet-and-greet following the alleged incident.
"Mueller's attorney said, 'You could have taken a break,' and Taylor Swift responded: 'And your client could have taken a normal photo with me.'"

Swift's testimony was "sharp, gutsy and satisfying," said Slate magazine's Christina Cauterucci.
"For young fans of Swift's, hearing a beloved artist speak candidly about the emotional damage of sexual assault and stand up to a courtroom of men trying to prove her wrong could be a formative moment for their developing ideas of gender, sex, and accountability."

Following Swift to the witness stand on Thursday was radio station boss Robert Call, who fired Mueller two days after the alleged incident, acting on a complaint from Swift's radio publicist.
Call said Mueller had initially denied touching Swift, but when shown the photo in question, he responded: "Well, if it did happen, it was accidental."
Call said he fired the DJ because of his shifting accounts of the incident, and because the photo showed that Mueller's hand was "not where it was supposed to be".

Greg Abbott - overcame being crushed by a tree

New York Times
Monday, June 5, 2017
NYTimes.com

Your Monday Evening Briefing  (email)
By INYOUNG KANG AND SANDRA STEVENSON
Good evening. Here’s the latest.

How conservative is conservative enough in Texas?
Greg Abbott is looking for the answer as the first new governor of the state in 14 years. He’s also the first to use a wheelchair. (A tree crushed him in 1984, while he was out for a jog.)
As he navigates battling factions of fellow Republicans, he takes their criticism in context: “When you have your life broken in half and realize that you’re going to be able to piece your life back together and overcome that, everything else in life is pretty easy to deal with.”

Self-will is choosing to Not Love

"God always chooses to love.  Self-will is choosing to Not Love."

~ Truthful Grace

Avoiding Stress

"I probably missed some opportunities to make more money.  But those opportunities generally bring more stress, which I've always tried to avoid."

"I'm sort of like a rock in the ocean.  The waves are crashing against me, but I just stand there."

~ Jens Voigt, German Professional Road Racing Cyclist, author of Shut Up Legs: My Wild Ride On and Off the Bike (with James Startt, published by Rodale, 2016)

"root for the pilot of the plane you are on"

Kasich finds it hard to rule out 2020
Ben Kamisar - The Hill - Sunday, April 30, 2017
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBAyMao?m=en-us
quotes:
Ohio Gov. John Kasich returned to the national spotlight this week with criticism for the GOP and President Trump, raising questions about the former Republican presidential candidate's political future. . . .
John Weaver, a longtime aide to the governor and an outspoken GOP critic of Trump, told The Hill that Kasich is not looking toward 2020 or having internal meetings to discuss the prospect. . . .
"The governor has said you root for the pilot of the plane you are on," Weaver said. "That doesn't mean you want the same pilot for the next leg."
"You want this pilot to land the plane safely and get the hell out of there."

Expectant Faith

(bold emphasis added by me)

The Heart of Healing, George Bennett, 1972

Chapter X   Three Healing Qualities
Looking back on interviews that brought great blessing, and trying to analyze the inner dispositions of the sufferers at the time, I can see three qualities whose presence appears to be vital to the power of the ministration. They are acceptance, expectant faith and surrender. They do not come all at once.
(p. 84)
It is clear from the Gospels that expectant faith is important if any healing work is to be done. (p. 85)
This quality, when present, provides the necessary environment for an incoming of creative energy. All life is the outward manifestation of God’s creative energies continuously flowing into and sustaining our created order. Where expectant faith is present the creative energies of God have free flow.
There is a significant phrase in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews—“faith is the substance of things hoped for.” It suggests that faith produces an energy which can be transmuted into material form. (p. 86-87)
I believe that . . . a new act of creation enters into our human life where the quality of the environment is dominated by the presence of expectant faith. If it is present in an interview then the Lord Christ is able to supply a divine energy which He makes available for the release and healing of the sick one. (p. 87)
Where faith is present, there is an outpouring of creative power that can change everything. . . .
The whole onus of faith in an interview is on the minister or helper. It is he, because of his own knowledge of what the Christ can do and because of that other unseen conversation in which he is engaged, who should unconsciously invoke this quality. Yet, when faith comes into the interview, it comes not only to the sufferer. The minister also shares in it and both are affected by it. On the human level it is the encounter between Christian helper and suffer which has brought it into being. On the level of the divine, it is a gift poured in by the Holy Spirit for the needs of that occasion.
A spiritual triangle has been created. The minister and the sufferer form the base and the Holy Spirit is the apex. When the triangle is made complete the atmosphere becomes vibrant with expectant faith. In such circumstances anything can happen. (p. 88)

~ George Bennett, The Heart of Healing. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1972.
(First edition 1971 published by Arthur James Limited of Evesham, Worcs., England.)

Rev. George Bennett, President of the Divine Healing Mission, Warden of Crowhurst Christian Healing Centre, Crowhurst, Battle, East Sussex, England  (associated with the Anglican Church)

God is all Love and wills to do all

Julian of Norwich
Two sins & Love

It is proper for us to have three kinds of knowledge: the first is that we know our Lord God; the second is that we know ourselves, what we are by Him in nature and grace; the third that we know humbly what we ourselves are as regards our sin and our weakness. And the whole showing was given for these three, as I understand it.
All this blessed teaching of our Lord God was shown in three parts: that is to say, by bodily sight, and by word formed in my understanding, and by spiritual insight....
God showed two kinds of sickness of soul that we have: the one is impatience or sloth (for we bear our labor and our pains gloomily); the other is despair or doubtful fear (as I shall say later)....And these two are those which most trouble and tempt us (according to what our Lord showed me), from which He wills that we be put right....
And the cause why we are troubled with these sins is because of our ignorance of Love, for though the three Persons of the Trinity are all equal in themselves, the soul received most understanding in Love; yes, and He wills that in everything we have our contemplation and our enjoyment in Love.
To this knowledge we are most blind; for some of us believe that God is all Power and is able to do all, and that He is all Wisdom and knows how to do all, but that He is all Love and wills to do all, there we stop.
This ignorance is that which most hinders God's lovers, as I see it, for when we begin to hate sin and amend ourselves by the command of Holy Church, still there persists a fear that hinders us....And we do not know to despise it as we do another sin which we recognize (which comes through lack of true judgement) and it is against truth, for of all the properties of the blessed Trinity, it is God's will that we have most confidence and delight in Love.

from Chapters 72 and 73, Revelations of Divine Love
https://www.orderofjulian.org/Two_sins_and_Love

Julian of Norwich (c. 8 November 1342 – c. 1416) was an English anchoress who is regarded as an important Christian mystic. She is venerated in the Anglican and Lutheran churches. Written around 1395, her work, Revelations of Divine Love, is the first book in the English language known to have been written by a woman.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich

Use me, God, in Thy great harvest field. . .

                              Send Me

Use me, God, in Thy great harvest field,
Which stretcheth far and wide like a wide sea;
The gatherers are so few; I fear the precious yield
Will suffer loss. O, find a place for me!

A place where best the strength I have will tell:
It may be one the older toilers shun;
Be it a wide or narrow place, ‘tis well
So that the work it holds be only done.

                                ~ Christina G. Rossetti

Superhuman vitality and magnetism as a teacher

"Western mystics have rarely shed much light on the subject of sexuality.
Eastern mystics, on the other hand, talk openly about sexual desire as a force in consciousness. It is not good or evil in itself, they insist, any more than an electric storm is. Rather, it is energy, raw power, and our task as human beings is to come to terms with that power—not to try and destroy it or suppress it, but to claim it and draw upon it for the good of all life.
The Eastern tradition maintains that the individual who succeeds in tapping into that force will have superhuman vitality, on the one hand, and tremendous magnetism as a teacher, on the other. It is interesting to reflect that Catherine of Siena was notable in both regards."

~ Carol L. Flinders, Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics (p. 235). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.

Pray first before doing anything worthwhile

"Listen, Child of God, to your teacher’s wisdom. Pay attention to what your heart hears. Make sure you freely accept and live out the loving Father’s directions.
Working at obedience is the way to return to Christ when the carelessness of disobedience has taken you off-path. Follow Christ by wearing the strong, sacred shield of submission.
Pray first before doing anything worthwhile. Then persist and never falter in prayer. God loves us as his own children, and forgives us, so we must not grieve him by rejecting that love and doing evil.
We must always make the best use of the good things God gives us."

~ St. Benedict, c. 480-550 AD in Italy, a patron saint of Europe and students

The strengthening dialogue of community

"St. Basil stresses in his Rule that the dialogue of community nurtures the individual: 'In this communal conversation, whatever is twisted in us will be straightened and whatever is good will be strengthened, and it will help us avoid being condemned with those who are only wise in their own eyes.'"

~ Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Man of Blessing: A Life of Saint Benedict
(Kindle Locations 589-591). Paraclete Press. Kindle Edition.

Questions

"Questions are not scary.
What is scary is when people don't have any.
What is tragic is faith that has no room for them."

~ Rob Bell, one of the most controversial figures in contemporary Christianity

comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep
pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the
heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes
wisdom to us by the aweful grace of God."

~ Aeschylus
Greek tragic dramatist and poet (525 BC - 456 BC)

the pain of discipline and the pain of regret

“There are two types of pain you will go through in life, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces while regret weights tonnes.”
~ Jim Rohn

The News - Companion Fear

           THE NEWS

Companion Fear is at my side,
   I cannot make him leave,
He whispers horror in my ear,
   He twitches at my sleeve.

He presses down upon my heart,
   He catches at my breath,
He does not need to put in words
   The hovering of death.

Companion Fear is at my side,
   I cannot make him go,
For we are bound in common dread
   Of what we do not know.

~ Sec

Sparing the Fire

Sparing the Fire

Each night I spare the fire,
my last act before retiring.
I bury two fresh lumps of peat
Deep within the embers.
Then tomorrow when I wake
I can poke the fire to life.

At death may God spare me.
When they bury my body
Deep within the boggy peat,
May my soul continue to glow.
So when the last trumpet sounds
I can rise with Christ to life.

~ Celtic Poem

Heaven Now

Heaven Now

If I were in heaven
I would play my harp,
     and sing songs of praise
     with the angels.
If I were in heaven,
I would dance with joy,
     and fill the air with laughter.

Let earth be like heaven,
     and people like angels;
Let all sing songs of praise.
Don’t wait to die,
     enjoy heaven now;
Don’t argue or cavil –
     just dance.

~ Celtic Poem

"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other"

Merkel in US for talks with Trump

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to meet President Donald Trump in Washington, with transatlantic trade and Nato ties high on the agenda. . . .
Ahead of Friday's talks, Mrs Merkel told a German newspaper she was looking forward to her first meeting with President Trump.
"It's always better to talk with each other than about each other," she told Saarbruecker Zeitung.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39300452

What does that word really mean?

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Can Man Live Without God? No! But we try all the time....

following quoted from http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

An excerpt from Ravi Zacharias’ book “Can Man Live Without God?”
Steve Turner says “No!”…But we try all the time….

Creed - by Steve Turner
a satirical poem on the modern mind

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then its compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind.
Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

quote above is from
http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"
~ Steve Turner

"They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation"

quote:
This reminds me of Steven Turner’s satirical observation of this sort of thinking in his poem “Creed.” “We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation.”
This is, as C. S. Lewis called it, “patronizing nonsense.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/reza-aslan-doesnt-get-religion-cnns-tour-de-farce

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The Merchant of Venice  William Shakespeare

SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats; well.
BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
. . .
SHYLOCK
I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
But note me, signior.
ANTONIO
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.1.3.html

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”
~ Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, the first female mayor of a major Canadian city

"the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth"

“[Jackie Kennedy] is such an amazing woman… Really having the understanding of history to very strongly and quickly define her husband’s legacy after the assassination. She knew that the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth.”
~ author unknown

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 ESV
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.
When a man's ways please the LORD,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 NRSV
By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one avoids evil.
When the ways of people please the LORD,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

the best fake Lincoln quote

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that is difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Aviation Quotes

Aviation Quotes from www.airborne-aviation.com.au/resources/aviation-quotes.php

• Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
• Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.
• The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
• In a twin-engine aircraft, the purpose of the second engine is to supply the pilot with enough power to fly to the scene of the crash.
• When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible.
  - Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II.
• When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.
• Try to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
• If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.
• You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.
• Airspeed, altitude or brains: Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
• When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something may be forgotten.
• Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.
  - Layton A. Bennett
• Never fly the 'A' model of anything.
  - Ed Thompson
• A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.
  - Jon McBride, astronaut
• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
  - Bob Hoover
• Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
  - Richard Herman, Jr., 'Firebreak'
• There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
  - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.
• Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
• The three most common expressions in aviation are, "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh Crap".
• Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
• A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
• Helicopters are for the rich... or the enlisted.
• We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!
• Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries.
• Helicopters don't fly... they just beat the air into submission.
• Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
• What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
  If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
  If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.
• Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.
  - Captain A. G. Lamplugh
• In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900
• The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward and wish.
• Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
• If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage / classic helicopter fly-ins?
• A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away.
• A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the aeroplane again.
• Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory... in other words, for every take-off, there WILL be a landing.
• If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
• Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
• One of the most important skills that a pilot must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.
• A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.
• It's always better to be down on the ground wishing you were up in the air than up in the air wishing you were down on the ground.
• The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
• Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another aircraft going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
• Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal the number of take-offs you've made.
• A meteorologist is just a common person who went to school long enough to be paid to guess what the weather is going to be.
• You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
• In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
• Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
• Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
• Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.
• There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. However, there are no old, bold pilots.
• Always remember you fly an aeroplane with your head, not your hands.
• "Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
• Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.
• Flying the aircraft is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.
• It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.
• You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
• Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.
• Things which do you no good in aviation:
  The sky above you.
  The runway behind you.
  The fuel still in the truck.
  Half a second ago.
  Approach plates in the car.
  The airspeed you don't have.
• What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
• Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.
• An aircraft may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
• There are only two things required to fly a modern airliner: a pilot and a dog. It's the pilot's job to feed the dog. It's the dog's job to bite the pilot if he touches anything in the cockpit.
• Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
• There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
• It's a good landing if you can still get the doors open.
• Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.
• The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
• It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
• If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter... and therefore, unsafe.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter... it's about to.
• Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase head wind.
• A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
• I know there's a lot of money in aviation because I put it there.
• It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune.
• A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
• A fool and his money are soon flying more aircraft than he can handle.
• The last thing every pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
• Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.
• Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
• Fly it until the last piece stops moving.
• It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
• Believe your instruments.
• Think ahead of your airplane.
• I'd rather be lucky than good.
• The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.
• If we are what we eat, then some pilots should eat more chicken.
• Without fuel, pilots become pedestrians.
• Regards engine power: Lots is good, more is better, and too much is just enough.
• If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn 'em back off.
• A checkride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
• Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• No one has ever collided with the sky.
• Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
• Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.
• Never let an airplane take you somewhere you brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
• Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.
• Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
• Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man.... Landing is the first!
• The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
• If you've got time to spare, go by air.
• IFR: I Follow Roads.
• If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.
• In thrust I trust.
• Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
• The future in aviation is the next 30 seconds. Long term planning is an hour and a half.
• I'm not speeding officer — I'm just flying low.
• The only thing that scares me about flying is the drive to the airport.
• Young man, was that a landing or were we shot down?
• It is far better to arrive late in this world than early in the next.
• Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
• You can land anywhere once.
• I want to die like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
• The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
• The real value of twin engine aircraft is it will double your chances of engine failure.
• CAUTION: Aviation may be hazardous to your wealth.
• If it ain't broke, don't fix it; if it ain't fixed, don't fly it.
• The worst day of flying still beats the best day of real work.
• It at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.
• It is said that two wrongs do not make a right, but two wrights do make an aeroplane.
• Without ammunition the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.
• Nothing flies without fuel, so let's start with some coffee.
• Any comment about how well things are going is an absolute guarantee of trouble.
• A terminal forecast is a horoscope with numbers.
• I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richtor scale.
• Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down.
• Aviation has created many millionaires, primarily from the ranks of multi-millionaires.
• Some pilots will make an emergency out of a bad magneto check. Others, upon losing a wing, will ask for a lower altitude.
• Remember, you’re always a student in an airplane.
• Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
• Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.
• Never trust a fuel gauge.

"I'm sorry"

a note about apologies from the New York Times, Jan. 30, 2017:

"Most times when we say, 'I’m sorry,' it’s for something trivial. But when it matters, watch your wording.
Psychologists and other experts say the best apologies are short and don’t include rationalizations or requests for forgiveness.
And 'I’m sorry you feel that way' really means 'I’m not really sorry at all.'"

Together

Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
~ Henry Ford

Thank-You Note Suggestions from "Ask Amy"

"A personal present from an individual requires a handwritten individual thank-you.
A gift presented at a party on behalf of a roomful of people can be acknowledged with a verbal thank-you to everyone at the party either individually or, acoustics and topography permitting, all at once.
A group gift delivered at home (or tossed in an inbox at work) can be acknowledged with a card posted in the lunchroom or an email.
Miss Manners agrees that those who are not thanked cannot reasonably be expected to participate in the future."

The Washington Post, January 24, 2017
Ask Amy column

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ask-amy-should-hurtful-mother-be-banned-from-her-childs-wedding/2017/01/22/5a308146-d8f1-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html

Did Martin Luther King Jr. steal the "I have a dream" part of his speech?

Yahoo Answers
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091209211248AAeJ209

Did martin luther king steal the I have a dream part of his speech?

Best Answer: 
Critics have charged that King plagiarized that too by borrowing from a speech given to the Republican convention in 1952 by an African-American preacher named Archibald Carey, Jr.
Some of them say he gave Cary's speech word-for-word.
It can probably be said that King borrowed from the idea of the speech by Carey (who was a friend of King's), but only the last couple of paragraph's resembled Carey's speech and little of it is word-for-word.
Both men spun their remarks off the words of the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee."

King's speech ended with:
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old ***** spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Carey's speech ended with:
We, ***** Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims' pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
That's exactly what we mean--from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain
in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!

“The second one is always harder.”

quote from a reader of the Carolyn Hax column:

Readers Dish on Family Dynamics

When my husband’s aunt died, I was devastated. Over the years we had become very close. She was kind to me and I admired and loved her.

When she died, my husband’s family closed ranks. I was not allowed to participate in planning the memorial service and no one seemed to understand how deeply I was grieving. It was especially hard because it was a few months after my mother died. In one summer I had lost a mother and a mentor.

At the funeral of my husband’s aunt, I broke down, and people were looking at me strangely and bypassing me to comfort the “real” family. The only one who understood was the minister who had officiated at the service. She pulled me aside and said, “The second one is always harder.” Those words meant a lot to me.

N.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/readers-dish-on-family-dynamics/2017/01/22/109c16fa-df43-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html

"This man has never had children."

Garrison Keillor: I think I need a new religion
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
Published 8:47 am, Thursday, January 19, 2017

. . . So I've been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. . . . I'm looking around for other options.
Buddhism involves way too much sitting still for my taste; the Dalai Lama basically says, "Be gentle. Listen to the universe. Live in the moment. Let happiness flow through you." And I think to myself, "This man has never had children."

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Garrison-Keillor-I-think-I-need-a-new-religion-10868744.php

“I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.”

Carolyn Hax: Don’t hurl online foulness back — stay polite and exit the cesspit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/carolyn-hax-dont-hurl-online-foulness-back--stay-polite-and-exit-the-cesspit/2017/01/10/290dee78-d455-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html

quote, bold added:

By Carolyn Hax Columnist January 11 
Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: My adult niece, 40, posted a very nasty comment about me to a social-media site because of my stance that women and girls should NOT be judged on their looks. This stance was never communicated to her specifically, it is just something I occasionally reference.
She said of me: “She’s totally nuts. She’s got a ton of money, no kids and clearly no joy in her life, either.”
How do I get over the hurt, since I have no idea where the hate originated?
Family Member

Family Member: This sounds like the tip of the storyberg here, but, just going on what you gave me, I suggest you comment on her original nasty post so she knows you know what she wrote. Utterly without inflection, write, “I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.” That’s it, then block her on that site.
Whatever you may or may not have done to offend her, the fact that she responded this way is cowardly and completely on her. It also hints at a profoundly unhappy person, which also is about her, not you. The hate is her damage, not yours.
And the onus is on her to rebuild a relationship with you if that’s what she wants. In the meantime, heal by devoting your time and concern to people who welcome you — and civility — in their lives.

"It will all be OK in the end. If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."

"It will all be OK in the end.
If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."
~ author unknown