Published 1911, The Book of Good Cheer, p. 31 (last entry was from p. 23)
“There is only one way to be happy and that is to make somebody else so.”
-Sidney Smith
p. 36
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the tale of Orpheus. It moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.”
-Bulwer
Jane this, Jane that. Jane then, Jane now. Here are some women who really Janed it! Can you add to my Janeology?
Zephyr. Bad gas? Distant cousin to sulphur? How about something related to dinosaurs? The big toe of a brontosaurus? Louis L’Amour sidekick?
I’ve always thought that one of the most profound ways I can show gratitude for the good things in life is to GO FOR IT.
For what?
Girls, let’s talk about our babies’ or in my case, my grandbabies’ butterbeans.
What? You didn’t think this journal was all about discretion, did you?
Published 1911, The Book of Good Cheer, p. 23
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor.”
-Robert Louis Stevenson
“There has not been a single day since the world began when the sun was not shining. The trouble has been with our vision.”
With a wink and a grin, old timers love telling kids about the long, arduous paths they walked to school waaay back when. You know the stories. They often involve deep snow, threadbare shoes, and steep hills (both to and from the schoolhouse).
But I bet you haven’t heard one that boasts a hurricane.
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