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The Clock Poem

9/1/2025

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The Clock Poem

I’m in the clock crew and I’m okay!
     I tick all night and I tick all day.
I’ve got two hands, I’m having a ball,
     Because I’ve got no arms at all!
My big hand can move sixty minutes in one hour,
     I’m the one with the strength and power.
My small hand isn’t quite as fast.
     If they were in a race, it would come last!
It takes so long just to get around (12 hours you know),
     It’s careful, small, and slow.
Now meet my friends that help me tick-tock,
     Half past, quarter past, quarter to, and o’clock.

By Author Unknown

Our Greatest Benefactor

6/16/2025

Our Greatest Benefactor

We all think of time as our enemy . . . how foolish! For in reality, time is not our enemy but our friend. It is an anodyne for our suffering. It is a philosopher’s staff on which to lean. It is the magic that lifts the crushing burden from our shoulders and makes smooth the rough places in life.

To women, time is kinder than they think. It offers itself to them as an ally instead of an adversary if they will meet it in the right spirit, and if it takes from them the fleeting beauty of youth, it will give them instead a charm that will never fade. For no women are so fascinating as those whom age and experience have ripened and perfected and given sophistication and taught every art of pleasing. And age gives beauty to many women who never had it in their youth . . . Many an old woman’s face is luminous with the goodness of her soul that shines through like light through an alabaster vase.

Time is the greatest solver of all our problems, if only we had intelligence enough to trust it. We lie awake at night and worry over our difficulties, wondering, if this or that contingency happened, what should be the best way to act. How much anxiety we might spare ourselves, if we would lay our problems on the knees of time. For when the hour comes, we find that time has solved it all and our course is perfectly obvious.

Time is the strengthener. Sometimes we are confronted with conditions that turn our souls sick. Sometimes the tasks appointed seem more onerous than we can perform. At first our courage ebbs . . . Then time begins to blur the harsh outlines of our background, to strengthen our backs to bear the burdens, and to breathe into us new hope and spirit.

Time brings with it the blessing of forgetfulness. It turns the memory of hardships into piquant reminiscences. It makes our mistakes something to laugh over, and makes our fellow creatures condone our transgressions because they were committed so long ago.

And time is the great peacemaker. Time robs old feuds of their enmity and old hatreds of their bitterness and makes us forgive those who have wronged us. Time teaches us how senseless it is to sour our own lives with a grudge.

Best of all, time is the great consoler. When we lose those we love, we feel that the sun has set for us. We find no cheer in anything, no interest. No words, sympathy, philosophy lighten our sorrow. Nothing can help but time. For it has been mercifully ordained that the wound must heal and the ache grows less poignant. Time brings us fresh interests, other joys, duties to other people, work that absorbs us, and so by degrees turns the grief into a sorrow that can be borne. Blessed be time that heals us.

By Dorothy Dix

Dorothy Dix is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, who was born on 18 November 1861 in Woodstock, Tennessee, United States of America. She became an advice columnists and a journalist. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer passed on at 90 years of age on 16 December 1951 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America.

Mornings And Dawns

1/3/2025

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“It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.” -Aristotle (284 B.C.E. - 322 B.C.E.)

“I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.” -Monica Baldwin
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“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” -John Graham: letter (10 April 189-) to his son Pierrepont, as quoted in George Lorimer (George Horace Lorimer (1867 - 1937)), editor: “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son” (1902)

“Wake up every morning and tell yourself, ‘I can do this!’” -Author Unknown
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“The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.” -Sarah Addison Allen

“There is a close connection between getting up in the world and getting up in the morning.” -Author Unknown
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“In the morning, everything is new.” -Author Unknown

“A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset.” -Author Unknown
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“In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting, up let this thought be present: I am rising to a man’s work.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180)): “Meditations,” verse 1

“Each dawn is a new beginning.” -Author Unknown
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Sunrise

A sunrise is
     a lovely way
          to begin a day.

By David Hugh Beaumont (Born 1966)

“When in the fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake,
I go for the time being into perfect happiness.” -Cecilia Thaxter
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Getting Up

When I get up in the morning
     I’ll tell you what I do
I wash my hands and wash my face
     Splishety-splash, splishety-splash
I clean my teeth till they’re shining white
     Scrubbity-scrub, scrubbity-scrub
Then I put on my clothes and brush my hair
     And runnity-run, I run downstairs.

By Author Unknown
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This is the tower . . . you are cleared for takeoff . . .

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” -E. B. White (Elwyn Brooks White (1899 - 1985))

“Start the day with a joke . . . because there’s no better way!” -Author Unknown

“Upon waking, let your first thought be, ‘Thank you.’” -Author Unknown
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“How beautiful, how buoyant, and glad is morning! The first sunshine on the leaves: the first wind, laden with the first breath of the flowers-that deep sigh with which they seem to waken from sleep; the first dew, untouched even by the light foot of the early hare; the first chirping of the rousing birds, as if eager to begin song and flight; all is redolent of the strength given by rest, and the joy of conscious life.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 - 1838): “Heath’s Book of Beauty, 1833” (1832), ‘Rebecca’

Al: Good morning.
Fred: And a great morning to you!

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Sunrise

This
     is the only gold
          I’ll ever possess . . .

I treasure it,
     counting its glory
          each dawn.

By Pollyanna Sedziol (Pollyanna Rogers ‘Polly’ Sedziol (born 1935))

“If you get up in the morning, you’re a morning person.” -Author Unknown

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A crowing rooster tells all the barnyard, “It’s time to get up, you sleepyheads!”

“You’ve made your bed, now go bounce on it.” -Peter Scott

“How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!” -John Muir (1838 - 1914)

“One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.” -Author Unknown
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“He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is a like a ray of life which darts itself through all his occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.” -Victor Hugo (Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885))

“The sunrise never failed us yet.” -Celia Thaxter: “Drift-Weed” (1878), page 64, ‘The Sunrise Never Failed Us Yet’ poem
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Good Morning Mr. Sun

Good morning Mr. Sun,
Our day has just begun,
We love to see your shining face,
Good morning Mr. Sun.

By Author Unknown

“The morning is the rudder of the day.” -Author Unknown
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“I awaken in the morning with confidence, rejoicing in whatever work is given to me to do. Whatever that work is, I do it, not in order to earn a living or in a sense of performing an onerous duty; but, with joy and gladness, I let it unfold as the activity of God’s expression through me.” -Joel S. Goldsmith (Joel Solomon Goldsmith (1892 - 1964))

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.” -Richard Whately (1787 - 1863)

“Dawn begins at midnight.” -Author Unknown

“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.” -Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860): “The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims” (originally published 1851; as translated by T. Bailey Saunders (June 1890)), chapter 2

“Those who do not get up in the mornings to work diligently at the business of life are fated to forever mourn over a lifetime of lost mornings.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

Mick: Top of the morning to you!
Mack: And the rest of the day to yourself!

“Don’t start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every day is a fresh start. Each day is a new beginning. Every morning we wake up is the first day of our new life.” -Author Unknown
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“Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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“Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.” -Elbert Hubbard (Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 - 1915))

“We must take great care never to do anything before having said our morning prayers . . . The Devil once declared that if he could have the first moment of the day, he was sure of all the rest.” -John Vianney (Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (1786 - 1859))
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“Invest the first hour of the day, the ‘Golden Hour,’ in yourself.” -Brian Tracy (born 1944) at https://www.briantracy.com

Morning Windows

The brightest thing a house can do,
     When morning fills the skies,
Is just to catch the sun’s first rays,
     And flash the brilliant prize.

No eighty-candle lights within
     Can match the dazzling sight,
And every window-pane becomes
     A fusillade of light!

Thus, thus it is when households kneel
     In humble morning prayer.
The very Sun of Righteousness
     Is caught and captured there:

And all the day, in all its ways,
     However dull they be,
The happy windows of that home
     Are scintillant to see!

By Author Unknown

Morning has broken,
Like the first morning,
Blackbird has spoken
Like the first bird.
Praise for the singing!
Praise for the morning!
Praise for them springing
Fresh from the Word!
-Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965): “Thanks for a Day” hymn song, stanza 1; as published in “Songs of Praise” (1931) hymnal; later varied renditions of the hymn song are known by the titles “A Morning Song” and “Morning Has Broken”

“The difference between rising at five and seven o’clock in the morning, for the space of forty years, supposing a man to go to bed at the same hour at night, is nearly equivalent to the addition of ten years to a man’s life.” -Philip Doddridge (1702 - 1751): as quoted in W. J. and J. Richardson: “The Works of Philip Doddridge” (1804), volume 1
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“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))

“Morning is the best of all times in the garden. The sun is not yet hot. Sweet vapors rise from the earth. Night dew clings to the soil and makes plants glisten. Birds call to one another. Bees are already at work.” -William Longgood
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“If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once!” -Walter Scott (1771 - 1832): “Diary” (2 March 1826)

“Good morning. Have an amazing day.” -Author Unknown
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“Awaken each day with the expectation that something wonderful is about to happen.” -Charles F. Glassman

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’

Oh, what a beautiful mornin’,
     Oh, what a beautiful day,
I’ve got a wonderful feeling,
     Everything’s going my way.

There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
     There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow,
The corn is as high as an elephants’ eye,
     And it looks like it’s climbing right up to the sky.

Oh, what a beautiful morning,
     Oh, what a beautiful day,
I’ve got a wonderful feeling,
     Ev’rything’s going my way.

By Oscar Hammerstein II (1895 - 1960): “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” (1943) as presented in the musical “Oklahoma”
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“The stillness of the early morning scene enables me to take in and enjoy many things which pass me by during the bustle of the day. First, there are the scents, which seem even more generous with their offerings than they are in the evening.” -Rosemary Verey

“Colors change; in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by evening the reds lose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.” -Rosemary Verey: “The Scented Garden” (1981)

“Start each day with an attitude of gratitude.” -Author Unknown
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Good Morning Song

Oh, the duck says, “Quack,”
and the cow says, “Moo,”
the old red rooster says,
“Cock-a-doodle-doo!”
The sheep says, “Baa,”
and the cat says, “Meow,”
but I say, “Good Morning!”
when I see you.

By Author Unknown
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“Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind, and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.” -Author Unknown

“With each sunrise, we are given the gift of another chance to make a difference.” -Author Unknown

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Past - Present - Future

11/3/2024

“If we make every day better than the one before, today will be the best day yet, and the greatest days ever will await us in every tomorrow.” -Wes Fesler

“The past is present in our lives and forms our future, unless we act in the present to change our lives and destinies.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966) Except where we choose to alter the present

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” -Author Unknown

“Today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.” -Author Unknown
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“Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.” -Petra Nemcova

“What you had yesterday is only memories; what you will have tomorrow is your dreams, and what you will do today will make tomorrow’s dreams come true.” -Author Unknown

“Today is tomorrow’s yesterday.” -Author Unknown

“Don’t let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or the future. By living one day at a time, you’re living all the days of your life.” -Author Unknown
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“People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they did yesterday.” -Author Unknown

“Accept your past without regrets, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear.” -Author Unknown

“Today is yesterday’s effect and tomorrow’s cause.” -Phillip Gribble

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” -Author Unknown
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“Tomorrow never comes. As soon as it does, it becomes Today.” -Author Unknown

Learn from the past.
Look to the future.
Live in the present.
-Author Unknown

“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.” -Aulus Persius Flaccus (also known simply as Persius (C.E. 34 - C.E. 62))

“Yesterday: The tomorrow that got away.” -Author Unknown
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“Do not be afraid of tomorrow, for God is already there.” -Author Unknown

“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.” -Arnold H. Glasow (Arnold Henry Glasow (1905 - 1999))

“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.” -Author Unknown

“People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.” -Author Unknown
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“I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.” -Paul Auster

“Let not the mistakes of yesterday - nor the fears of tomorrow - spoil our today.” -Author Unknown

“If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.” -Author Unknown

“Dear Past, thank you for all the lessons you have given me. Dear Future, I’m ready!” -Author Unknown
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“One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone: and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” -Ida Scott Taylor (Ida Scott Taylor McKinney (1855 - 1932))

“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform.” -Edward Young (1683 - 1765)

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“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” -H. Jackson Brown (Horace Jackson Brown, Junior (1940 - 2021)): “Life’s Little Instruction Book” (1991)

“Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.” -Author Unknown
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“The past can only be known, not changed. The future can only be changed, not known.” -Stewart Brand

“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” -Golda Meir

“Appreciate what you have while you have it. Don’t dwell on the past, don’t worry about the future, just live in the present and make the most of it.” -Author Unknown

“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today and yesterday.” -Author Unknown
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“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” -Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)

“Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.” -Author Unknown

“The future turns to present, and present turns to past. Thus it seems that time is ever-ending, yet never-ending.” -Richard van der Merwe

“Learn from the past, live in the present, plan for the future.” -Audrey Farrell
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“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow - you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975) at https://stevemaraboli.net/

“You must study the past carefully if you want to predict the most likely outcome in the future.” -Author Unknown

“Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.” -Dale Carnegie (Dale Harbison Carnegie (born Dale Breckenridge Carnagey (1888 - 1955))): “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living” (1948), page 237, Part 8: ‘How I Conquered Worry’

“We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past.” -Chiang Kai-shek (1886 - 1975)
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“Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events, and in today already walks tomorrow.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

“I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)): “The Moon and Sixpence” (1919), Chapter 21

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” -Roy T. Bennett

Riddle: Can you name three consecutive days without using the words Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday?
Solution: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

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Hours of Regret

If we fill our hours with regrets
over the failures of yesterday,
and with worries over the
problems of tomorrow,
we have no today in which to be thankful.

By Author Unknown
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“One faces the future with one’s past.” -Pearl S. Buck (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (1892 - 1973))

“Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may never come; today is here - get busy!” -Author Unknown

“We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.” -Epeli Ganilau
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“Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your wildest ambition.” -William Osler (1849 - 1919): address (1899) at McGill University, as quoted in the “The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal” (16 November 1899), volume 141

The past is behind, learn from it.
The future is ahead, prepare for it.
The present is here, live it.
-Thomas S. Monson (Thomas Spencer Monson (1927 - 2018))

“By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.” -Thích Nhất Hạnh (born Nguyễn Xuân Bảo (1926 - 2022))

“Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” -Author Unknown
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“Focus on the present and make use of it on it. The past and the future can take care of themselves, for now.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“What is the present after all, but a growth out of the past.” -Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

“You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future.” -Zig Ziglar (Hilary Hinton ‘Zig’ Ziglar (1926 - 2012))

“There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.” -Lillian Eichler Watson: “Light from Many Lamps”
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“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” -Roy T. Bennett

Learn from the past . . .
Hope for the future . . .
Live in the present . . .
-Ken Lancaster

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

“Yesterday is a cancelled cheque*. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is the only cash you have, so spend it wisely.” -Kim Lyons
*cheque: check
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“I invite you to the world of no past. It’s the only sane place to be.” -Byron Katie

“Look not mournfully into the Past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882): “Hyperion” (1839), Book IV, Chapter 8

“There are two days about which nobody should ever worry and these are yesterday and tomorrow.” -Robert Jones Burdette: as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
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“Past events are locked in the past, and future events are partly unknowable; only the present is ours for planning, doing, and living.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s where the fun is.” -Donald Trump (Donald John Trump, Senior (born 1946)) with Tony Schwartz: “The Art of the Deal” (1987), page 2

“You can’t change your past, and your future has not happened, focus your energy on enjoying the moment you are living right now.” -Rod Williams
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“Keep from the past what is useful, and discard the rest; live in the present to the best you know, while continuing to try new things and continuing to learn; in so doing, you will head into a better future, which, in time, will become a better present-day.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“He that fears not the future may enjoy the present.” -Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

“Look to the past, the present, and the future.” [translation to English]
“Respice, adspice, prospice.” [original Latin]
-Author Unknown
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“Remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.” -John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła (1920 - 2005)): open letter (6 January 2001) to the bishop clergy and lay faithful

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Time

5/6/2024

“If it weren’t for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn’t get done.” -Author Unknown
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Late

How did it get so late so soon?
     It’s night before it’s afternoon.
December is here before it’s June.
     My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?

By Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991))

Beverly: How is getting up at 4:00 a.m. like a pig’s tail?
Kimberly: It’s twirly!
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“Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.” -Denis Waitley (Denis Edwin Waitley, Senior (born 1933)) at https://deniswaitley.com/

“If I could have time in a bottle, I’d make it a glass bottle. That way, I could see the dinosaurs.” -Dick Bowden

“Time is eternity begun.” -James Montgomery (1771 - 1854): “A Mother’s Love,” stanza 8, line 6; type of work: poem
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“How you spend your hours equals who you are today.” -Stephen Bavolek (Stephen J. Bavolek)

Jonah: How many seconds are in a year?
Jonas: Twelve, starting with the second (2nd) of January.
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“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.” -Dinah Craik (Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock (1826 - 1887))

There Was a Man

There was a man who never was.
     This tragedy occurred because
His parents, being none too smart,
     Were born two hundred years apart.

by Dennis Lee

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it, you can never get it back.” -Harvey Mackay (Harvey B. Mackay (born 1932))

James: Where are you going?
Pauline: I’m going to the clock shop to buy some time.
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In the time a person says, “One hundred and one,” one second of time has passed.

Seymour: What time is it?
Rosemary: It is now.

Why do the hours drag on endlessly, while the years seem to fly past?

In 1984, the “Eldorado Daily Journal” newspaper of Illinois, United States of America, announced a contest to see who could save the most daylight for daylight savings time. The rules of the contest were simple: beginning with the first day of daylight savings time, contestants would be required to save daylight. Whoever succeeded in saving the most daylight would win. Only pure daylight would be allowed - no dawn or twilight light, though light from cloudy days would be allowed. Moonlight was strictly forbidden. Light could be stored in any container. The contest received a huge nationwide response. The paper’s editor was interviewed by correspondents from television news shows and was featured in papers around the country.

Overheard: She’s always late. Her ancestors arrived on the June Flower.

How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
-Matt Haig (born 1975)

“We all start out in life with one thing in common: we all have the same amount of time. It’s just a matter of what we do with it.” -Harvey Mackay (Harvey B. Mackay (born 1932))

Overheard: In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

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Lost time is gone forever? Look, we just found some discarded time! Whoo-hoo! Think of all the things we can do with it!
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“Those who know the value of time use it in preparation for eternity.” -Dugnet (also variously attributed to Duguet and Dugnat)

“Time devours all things.” [English translation]
“Tempus edax rerums.” [original Latin]
-Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.E. - C.E. 17))

“Don’t say, ‘There’s still time,’ or ‘Maybe next time,’ because there’s also the concept of, ‘It’s too late.’” -Author Unknown
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“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they are gone forever.” -Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)

Julianne: What time is it?
Julius: Early September in the year of our Lord 2021.

Chronophobia is a persistent fear of time. Perhaps at the root of this fear is yet another fear, a fear of having all of one’s most beautiful dreams going forever unrealized. Let’s do something about that today by getting started on dreams and goals and plans, even if only in the tiniest of ways, like writing them down on paper or typing them out on your computer, and re-reading them at the start of each day.

Bill: What time would it be if it were not the time it is now?
Tim: Some other time.

“Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” -Havelock Ellis (Henry Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939))

“I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.” -Bernard Berenson (1865 - 1959)
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“The supply of time is a daily miracle. Each day twenty-four hours are given to us to do with as we wish. It is the most precious possession we have, so live it daily and take advantage of every opportunity.” -Author Unknown

“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” -Thomas Mann (Paul ‘Thomas’ Mann (1875 - 1955)): “The Magic Mountain” (1924), Chapter 5

“Time is a circus always packing up and moving away.” -Ben Hecht (1894 - 1964)

“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.” -Baltasar Gracián (1601 - 1658)

Riddle: What flies without wings?
Solution: Time.
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” -Michael Altshuler at http://michaelaltshuler.com

“Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond.” -Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873))

Overheard: Just think, tomorrow at this same time, we will all be living exactly one day in the future . . .

“Time revealeth all things.” -Thomas Draxe (unknown - 1618)

“Each moment, as it passes, is the meeting place of two eternities.” -Madame Swetchine (Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782 - 1857))
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“By losing present time, we lose all time.” -W. Gurney Benham (William Gurney Benham (1859 - 1944))

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” -Charles Darwin (Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882))

Time Facts
- 60 seconds make up a minute.
- 60 minutes make up an hour.
- 24 hours make up a day.
- 7 days make up a week.
- 28 to 31 days make up a month.
- 12 months make up a year.
- 10 years make up a decade.
- 100 years make up a century.
- 1,000 years make up a millennium.
- An infinite number of years make up an eternity.

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“Time flies whether you’re having fun or not. The choice is yours.” -Author Unknown

“Lost time is never found again.” -John H. Aughey (John Hill Aughey (1828 - 1911))

Candace: What time is it?
Wallace: $682.99.
Candace: Your prices are really high.
Wallace: That’s because time is really valuable.
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Have you ever noticed that when someone says there is no more time, time pays no attention to what that person says and continues to flow right along as usual?

“Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don’t know if it even exists . . .” -Clifford D. Simak (Clifford Donald Simak (1904 - 1988)): “Shakespeare’s Planet” (1976)

“Time is like a snowflake - it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.” -Author Unknown
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May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
-Delmore Schwartz (1913 - 1966): “Calmly We Walk Through This April’s Day” (1937), also found in Delmore Schwartz: “For Rhoda” (1938), stanza 1

“Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.” -Jim Bishop

“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not.” -Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

“The time on either side of now stands fast.” -Maxine Kumin (born Maxine Winokur (1925 - 2014)) at https://maxinekumin.com/

“When it’s three o’clock in New York, it’s still 1938 in London.” -Bette Midler (born 1945): as quoted in the “Jerusalem Post” (24 February 1989) newspaper
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“You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the magic tissue of the Universe of your life. No one can take it from you. No one receives either more or less than you receive. Waste your infinitely precious commodity as much as you will, and you cannot draw on the future. Impossible to get into debt. You can only waste the passing moment. You cannot waste tomorrow; it is kept for you.” -Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 - 1931))

“God hath given to man a short time here upon Earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.” -Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667): “Holy Living” (1650)

“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.” -Samuel Smiles (1812 - 1904): “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct” (2009) page 389

“Time is not a reality, but a concept or a measure . . .” -Antiphon the Sophist (479 B.C.E. - 411 B.C.E.): “Truth”

“You will never have more time than you do right now.” -Author Unknown

More Time Facts
- According to the old English time system, a moment is one and a half minutes.
- A jiffy is an actual unit of time, equaling 1/100th of a second.
- A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
- The smallest unit of time is a yoctosecond, or 1 septillionth of a second, being 10 to the power of negative 24.
- A million seconds is about 11 days.
- A billion seconds is about 31 years.
- 31,536,000 seconds is about one year.
- 168 hours are in a week.

“Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009)) at https://www.JimRohn.com

“Time is not measured by clocks but by moments.” -Author Unknown

“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (Arthur ‘Art’ Buchwald (1925 - 2007)): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)

“Time eases all things.” -Sophocles (496 B.C.E. - 406 B.C.E.): “Oedipus Rex,” line 1515

Time Quiz
- What time is it?
- What time would you rather it be?
- Is it the same time for everybody?
- Does anybody really know what time it is?
- What is time?
- Do you have enough time?
- If you do not have enough time, where can you get some more?
- When people borrow some of your time, do they ever pay you back?

“Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.” -Euripides (about 480 B.C.E. - about 406 B.C.E.): “Æolus,” Fragment 38

Tim: May I borrow some of your time?
Tom: Only if you promise to return it.

“There is only one time that is important - Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” -J. R. R. Tolkien (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892 - 1973)): “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954), words of character Gandalf

Wow, where did all the time go? Apparently, time flies when you are having fun! And, since that is all the time we have to cover the topic of Time, we will now go on to our next topic . . . on MFOL!

November

11/1/2023

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November

The leaves are fading and falling,
     The winds are rough and wild,
The birds have ceased their calling,
     But let me tell you, my child,

Though day by day, as it closes,
     Doth darker and colder grow,
The roots of the bright red roses
     Will keep alive in the snow.

And when the winter is over,
     The boughs will get new leaves,
The quail come back to the clover,
     And the swallow back to the eaves.

There must be rough, cold weather,
     And winds and rains so wild;
Not all good things together
     Come to us here, my child.

So, when some dear joy loses
     Its beauteous summer glow,
Think how the roots of the roses
     Are kept alive in the snow.

By Alice Cary

Alice Cary was born on 26 April 1820 in Mount Healthy, Ohio, United States of America. She was an older sister of the poet Phoebe Cary (1824 - 1871). Alice Cary became a writer and a poet. She passed on at 50 years of age on 12 February 1871 in New York City, New York, United States of America.

October’s Party

10/26/2023

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October’s Party

October gave a party;
     The leaves by hundreds came -
The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples,
     And leaves of every name.
The Sunshine spread a carpet,
     And everything was grand,
Miss Weather led the dancing,
     Professor Wind the band.

The Chestnuts came in yellow,
     The Oaks in crimson dressed;
The lovely Misses Maple
     In scarlet looked their best;
All balanced to their partners,
     And gaily fluttered by;
The sight was like a rainbow
     New fallen from the sky.

Then, in the rustic hollow,
     At hide-and-seek they played,
The party closed at sundown,
     And everybody stayed.
Professor Wind played louder;
     They flew along the ground;
And then the party ended
     In jolly “hands around.”

By George Cooper

Take Time - For Life

1/21/2021

Take Time - For Life

Take time to work -
It is the Price of Success.

Take time to think -
It is the Source of Power.

Take time to play -
It is the Secret of Perpetual Youth.

Take time to pray -
It is the Greatest Power on Earth.

Take time to read -
It is the Fountain of Wisdom.

Take time to worship -
It is the Highway to Reverence

Take time to be friendly -
It is the Road to Happiness.

Take time to dream -
It is Hitching Your Wagon to a Star.

Take time to love and be loved -
It is the Most of All Privileges.

Take time to laugh -
It is the Music of the Soul.

Take time to give -
It is To Be an Angel.

by Author Unknown

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

1/1/2021

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

There are two days in every week
about which we should not worry,
Two days which should be kept free of fear and apprehension.

One of these days is yesterday,
With its mistakes and cares,
Its faults and blunders,
Its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
We cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone.

The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow
With its possible adversities, its burdens, its larger promise.
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow, the sun will rise,
Either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds,
But it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow
For it is as yet unborn.

This leaves only one day - today.
Any man can fight the battles of just one day.
It is only when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
- Yesterday and tomorrow -
That we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives men mad.
It is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday
And the dread of what tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live but one day at a time.

by Author Unknown

Going! Going! Gone!

2/16/2020

Going! Going! Gone!

The other day, as I was walking through a side street in one of our large cities, I heard these words ringing out from a room so crowded with people that I could but just see the auctioneer’s face and uplifted hammer above the heads of the crowd.

“Going! Going! Going! Gone!” and down came the hammer with a sharp rap.

I do not know how or why it was, but the words struck me with a new force and significance. I had heard them hundreds of times before, with only a sense of amusement. This time they sounded solemn.

“Going! Going! Gone!”

“That is the way it is with life,” I said to myself; - “with time.” This world is a sort of auction-room; we do not know that we are buyers: we are, in fact, more like beggars; we have brought no money to exchange for precious minutes, hours, days, or years; they are given to us. There is no calling out of terms, no noisy auctioneer, no hammer; but nevertheless, the time is “going! going! gone!”

The more I thought of it, the more solemn did the words sound, and the more did they seem to me a good motto to remind one of the value of time.

When we are young we think old people are preaching and prosing when they say so much about it, - when they declare so often that days, weeks, even years, are short. I can remember when a holiday, a whole day long, appeared to me an almost inexhaustible play-spell; when one afternoon, even, seemed an endless round of pleasure, and the week that was to come seemed longer than does a whole year now.

One needs to live many years before one learns how little time there is in a year, - how little, indeed, there will be even in the longest possible life, - how many things one will still be obliged to leave undone.

But there is one thing, boys and girls, that you can realize if you will try - if you will stop and think about it a little; and that is, how fast and how steadily the present time is slipping away. However long life may seem to you as you look forward to the whole of it, the present hour has only sixty minutes, and minute by minute, second by second, it is “going! going! gone!” If you gather nothing from it as it passes, it is “gone” forever. Nothing is so utterly, hopelessly lost as “lost time.” It makes me unhappy when I look back and see how much time I have wasted; how much I might have learned and done if I had but understood how short is the longest hour.

All the men and women who have made the world better, happier or wiser for their having lived in it, have done so by working diligently and persistently. Yet, I am certain that not even one of these, when “looking backward from his manhood’s prime, saw not the specter of his mis-spent time.” Now, don’t suppose I am so foolish as to think that all the preaching in the world can make anything look to young eyes as it looks to old eyes; not a bit of it.

But think about it a little; don’t let time slip away by the minute, hour, day, without getting something out of it! Look at the clock now and then, and listen to the pendulum, saying of every minute, as it flies, - “Going! going! gone!”

by Helen Hunt Jackson: “Bits of Talk, In Verse and Prose, For Young Folks” (1876)

Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.

Father Time

2/15/2020

Father Time

Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow’s hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.

by Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (chärlz jŏn hŭfꞋəm dĭkꞋənz) was born on 7 February 1812 in Landport (a part of the city of Portsmouth located on Portsea Island), Hampshire, England. He was a Victorian novelist, and commonly regarded as one of the greatest English writers. He wrote novels including “Pickwick Papers” (1837), “Oliver Twist” (1837 - 1839), “A Christmas Carol” (1843), “David Copperfield” (1849 - 1850), and “Great Expectations” (1860), among other classics. His writings expressed his deep compassion for the poor in Victorian England. Charles John Huffam Dickens passed on at 58 years of age on 18 June 1870 in Higham, Kent, England.

September

2/14/2020

September

The golden-rod is yellow;
     The corn is turning brown;
The trees in apple orchards
     With fruit are bending down.

The gentian’s bluest fringes
     Are curling in the sun;
In dusty pods the milkweed
     Its hidden silk has spun.

The sedges flaunt their harvest,
     In every meadow nook;
And asters by the brook-side
     Make asters in the brook.

From dewy lanes at morning
     The grapes’ sweet odors rise;
At noon the roads all flutter
     With yellow butterflies.

By all these lovely tokens
     September days are here,
With Summer’s best of weather,
     And Autumn’s best of cheer.

But none of all this beauty
     Which floods the earth and air,
Is unto me the secret
     Which makes September fair.

’Tis a thing which I remember;
     To name it thrills me yet:
One day of one September
     I never can forget.

by Helen Hunt Jackson: as published in Lida Brown McMurry and Agnes Spofford Cook, editors: “Songs of the Tree-Top and Meadow” (1899), page 11

Helen Hunt Jackson was born as Helen Maria Fiske on 15 October 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a writer and a poet. Helen Hunt Jackson passed on at 54 years of age on 12 August 1885 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.

The Great Clock

10/31/2019

The Great Clock

The clock of life is wound but once,
     And no man has the power
To tell just when the hand will stop.
     At late or early hour.

Now is the only time you own;
     Live, love, toil with a will,
Plan no faith in tomorrow for
     The clock may then be still.

Wear today a cheerful face
     In everything you do.
The sunshine that you radiate
     Will shine right back at you.

Speak today a word of hope
     To someone in distress;
When you lift another’s load
     You make your burdens less.

Do today a gracious deed
     And do it with a smile;
It’s little daily acts like these
     That make your life worthwhile.

by Author Unknown

Today And The Present

10/14/2019

“Nothing is worth more than this day.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

The Gift of a Day

Every day’s a perfect gift
     of time for us to use,
Hours waiting to be filled
     in any way we choose.
Each morning brings
     a quiet hope
That rises
    with the Sun.
Each evening brings
     the sweet content
That comes with work
    well done.

by Author Unknown

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” -Author Unknown

Today is your day!
     Your mountain is waiting,
          So . . . get on your way!
-Doctor Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 - 1991)): “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” (1990)

“The living moment is everything.” -D. H. Lawrence (David Herbert Lawrence (1885 - 1930))

Garth: Do you know what today is?
Heath: No - what is it?
Garth: It is the day after yesterday!

“I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn’t know, I held opportunity.” -Hazel Lee (Hazel Crutcher Lee (1917 - 2006))

“What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.” -Alexandra Stoddard (born 1941)

“Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.” -May Sarton (pseudonym of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995))

“Remember what was. Anticipate what will be. But live in the moment that lies in between.” -Author Unknown

“Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower (Dwight David ‘Ike’ Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)): as quoted in Louis Filler: “The President Speaks: From William McKinley to Lyndon B. Johnson” (1964)

“Act in the precious present.” -Author Unknown

“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” -Alice Morse Earle (1851 - 1911): “Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights Which Are Here Displayed in Very Truth and Are Morever Regarded As Emblems” (1902)

“Let today be the start of something new.” -Author Unknown

“Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” -Author Unknown

Today

Today is mine. It is unique.
Nobody in the world has one exactly like it.
It holds the sum of all my past experiences and all my future potentials.
I can fill it with joyous moments or ruin it with fruitless worry.
If painful recollections of the past come into my mind,
or frightening thoughts of the future, I can put them away.
They cannot spoil today for me.

by Author Unknown

“Today is a brand new day. My past does not define me. My future is mine to create.” -Author Unknown

“There is only one time that is important - now! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power.” -Leo Tolstoy (Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 - 1910))

“If not now, when will you begin living your life?” -Jack Borland

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” -Mohandas Karamchand ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

“On a day no different than the one now dawning, Leonardo drew the first strokes of the Mona Lisa, Shakespeare wrote the first words of Hamlet, Beethoven began work on his Ninth Symphony, and Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. What are you going to do today?” -Author Unknown

“If you haven’t found something strange during the day, it hasn’t been much of a day.” -John A. Wheeler (John Archibald Wheeler (1911 - 2008))

“Every day is a gift.” -Author Unknown

“The passing moment is all that we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it . . .” -W. Somerset Maugham (William Somerset Maugham (1874 -1965))

“Days are expensive. When you spend a day, you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.” -Jim Rohn (Emanuel James ‘Jim’ Rohn (1930 - 2009))

“I think, what has this day brought me, and what have I given it?” -Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” -Author Unknown: “The Holy Bible” (King James Version, Cambridge Edition (1769)), ‘Psalms,’ Psalm 118, verse 24

Live in the Present

One day at a time
this is enough.
Do not look back
and grieve over the past
for it is gone;
and do not be troubled
about the future
for it has not yet come.
Live in the present
and make it so beautiful
that it will be worth
remembering!

by Author Unknown

“Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953)

“If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.” -Pete Goss (born 1961)

“No day passeth, without something we wish not.” -Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734): “Gnomologia” (1732), number 3,558

“Never underestimate the value of a day.” -Author Unknown

“What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. There’s quite a lot we don’t know about them.” -Melanie Benjamin (pseudonym of Melanie Hauser (born 1962))

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” -Karen Lamb (born 1956), website www.karenlamb.com

“Make good use of today.” -Author Unknown

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Today

Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a love letter. Share some treasure. Give a soft answer. Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or deed.

Keep a promise. Find the time. Forego a grudge. Forgive an enemy. Listen. Apologize if you were wrong. Try to understand. Flout envy. Examine your demands on others. Think first of someone else. Appreciate, be kind, be gentle. Laugh a little more.

Deserve confidence. Take up arms against malice. Decry complacency. Express your gratitude. Worship your God. Gladden the heart of a child. Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the Earth. Speak your love. Speak it again. Speak it still again. Speak it still once again.

by Author Unknown

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“One today is worth two tomorrows.” -Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790): “The Way to Wealth” (1758)

“Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.” -Og Mandino (Augustine ‘Og’ Mandino II (1923 - 1996))

“One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one’s reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.” -S. N. Goenka (Satya Narayan Goenka (1924 - 2013))

“Now is all there is.” -Author Unknown

“Day, noun: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.” -Ambrose Bierce (Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 - 1914))

“Just for today let us live this one day only, forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not trying to solve the whole problem of life at once.” -Joseph F. Newton (Joseph Fort Newton (1878 - 1949))

“No time like the present.” -Mary de la Rivière Manley (also known as Delarivier Manley (1663 - 1724))

“Today is a perfect day to just be happy.” -Author Unknown

“You will never have this day again, so make it count.” -Author Unknown

“As long as the day lasts, let’s give it all we’ve got.” -David O. McKay (David Oman McKay (1873 - 1970))

“One must never be in haste to end a day. There are too few of them in a lifetime.” -Author Unknown

“The past was. Tomorrow may be. Only today is.” -Sonya Friedman

“Our days are like identical suitcases, all the same size, but some can pack into them twice as much as others.” -Author Unknown

“Today . . . spend more time with people who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.” -Author Unknown

“The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours.” -Woody Hayes (Wayne Woodrow ‘Woody’ Hayes (1913 - 1987))

“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.” -Alice Walker (born 1944)

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki (Robert Toru Kiyosaki (born 1947))

“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.” [English translation]
“Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” [original Latin]
-Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 B.C.E. - 8 B.C.E.)): “Odes” (23 B.C.E.), book 1, number 11, final line

“There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day.” -Alexander Woollcott (Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (1887 - 1943))

“Is it today yet?” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

“Right now counts forever.” -R. C. Sproul (Robert Charles Sproul (1939 - 2017)): title of article in “Tabletalk” (May 1977) magazine

“Think that this day will never dawn again.” -Dante Alighieri (about 1265 - 1321)

“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life big, broad, significant, and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.” -Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953): “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day” (1918), ‘August Twenty-Eighth’

“Now is the only time anything happens.” -Sylvia Boorstein (born 1936)

“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald (1925 - 2007): as quoted in “The Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association” (1979)

“The man who waits until tomorrow, misses the opportunities of today.” -Author Unknown

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.
“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day.”
-A. A. Milne (Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956)): “Winnie the Pooh” (14 October 1926)

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” -Annie Dillard (born 1945 as Meta Ann Doak): “The Writing Life” (1989)

“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” -Ralph Marston (Ralph S. Marston, Junior (born 1955))

“Every man’s life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.” -Marcus Aurelius (also known as Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (C.E. 121 - C.E. 180))

“There’s only now.” -Bill Murray (William James ‘Bill’ Murray (born in 1950))

This is MFOL! . . . encouraging you to go out today to make great memories . . .

Clocks And Timepieces

8/30/2019

What time does the clock show?

Before clocks and watches were invented, people planned their days by the rising and setting of the Sun. We continue to use sunrise and sunset as the most obvious reference points in our days.

“The first and original clock or timepiece known to humankind is still all around us even now: the Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the movements thereof, which creates our days and nights and tides and seasons.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

Sundials were invented more than 2,000 years ago and were among the first instruments used to tell the time. Small sundials, similar to the one built into the pocket compass shown above, were once very popular, and are still made and available for purchase even now. They require no batteries or winding.

Lessons from a Sundial

Ignore dull days; forget the showers;
Keep count of only shining hours.

by Author Unknown

After the invention of sundials came hourglasses. Though they do not show the time of day, they do allow people to know when a period of time is up, as the sand finishes pouring out of the top half of the glass into the bottom half. Hourglasses come in different time measures, such as 1 minute, 30 minutes, or 1 hour, and for specific purposes, such as egg timer hourglasses to time the cooking of hard-boiled eggs. Some hourglasses allow users to put in more sand or remove sand to let them to choose how much time will be measured. Hourglasses are even made that contain liquid rather than sand to mark the passage of time.

Sometime in the 1400’s, also referred to as the 15th century, mechanical clocks were invented. The pendulum clock was invented in 1656, and continued as the most accurate clock type until the 1930’s, when quartz oscillators were invented. Digital clocks and wristwatches, and most analog clocks, are now built with quartz oscillators. After World War 2, atomic clocks were invented, and are at present the most accurate timepieces.

To synchronize your computer’s clock with the atomic clock, said to be the world’s most reliable timepiece, visit http://www.worldtimeserver.com/atomic-clock.

Have you ever noticed that by the time you have finished synchronizing all of your clocks, watches, timers, appliances, and devices, it’s time to start all over again . . .

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does: Keep going.” -Author Unknown

Before 1687, clocks were made with an hour hand only.

Why are the long thin moving parts on clock faces called hands and not fingers? After all, they are long and narrow like fingers, and they do sort of point at the numbers . . .

“Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand?” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))

Raymond: What did the big hand say to the small hand on the clock?
Myra: “Can you spare a minute?”

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Clock Song

The hands on the clock
     Go round and round,
     Round and round, round and round.
The hands on the clock
     Go round and round,
     To tell us the time.

The short hand on the clock
     Goes from number to number,
     Number to number, number to number.
The short hand on the clock
     Goes from number to number.
     To tell us the time.

The long hand on the clock
     Goes around by fives,
     Around by fives, around by fives.
The long hand on the clock
     Goes around by fives.
     To tell us the minutes.

by Author Unknown: can be sung to the same tune as that of “Wheels on the Bus”

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“My watch is three hours fast and I can’t fix it, so I’m gonna move to New York.” -Steven Wright (Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955))

The wristwatch was invented in 1904 by Louis Cartier.

Overheard: Let’s all synchronize our watches.

“My poor fellow, why not carry a watch?” -Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852 - 1917): comment made to a man in the street who was carrying a grandfather clock

Preston: How should you greet a grandfather clock?
Pierce: “Hello, old timer!”

Heloise: What did the digital watch say to the grandfather clock?
Louise: “Look Pops, no hands!”

“Timepiece: An indicator device of the progression of events relative one to another, though in itself holding no sway over them.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)

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The Sad Tale of Mr. Mears

There was a man who had a clock,
     His name was Matthew Mears;
And every day he wound that clock
     For eight and twenty years.

And then one day he found that clock
     An eight-day* clock to be;
And a madder man than Matthew Mears
     You would not wish to see.

by Author Unknown
*An eight-day clock is a clock that is wound once in every eight days.

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“You can’t turn back the clock but you can wind it up again.” -Author Unknown

Riddle: What runs but has no legs?
Solution: A clock.

Analog clocks and watches have hands that move around a dial, or clockface, and digital clocks and watches have numerical, or number, displays.

The tip of a 0.846666666667 centimeter (1/3 inch long) hour hand on an analog wristwatch travels at 0.000004425696 kilometers (0.00000275 miles) per hour. By comparison, the fastest-moving land snail, the common garden snail, has a speed of about 0.0503724672 kilometers (0.0313 miles) per hour. This must be the reason why so many pet snails are named Speedy, but so many wristwatches are named Old Reliable.

In many advertisements for analog watches, or watches with hands, the time shown is with the hands at 10 and 2 (the digital watch equivalent of 10:10), because the hand positions for this time are thought to subtly represent a smiling face in the minds of people who view the ads . . . and as we have been told, everybody likes a joyful timepiece.

Sign on a clock repair shop: Cuckoo Clocks Psychoanalyzed Here.

Olga: Why was the clock put in the tree?
Olaf: Because it was a little cuckoo.

Cuckoo clocks are not just for eccentric people anymore . . . but mostly they are. We are kidding - they are for anybody who wants one. You might need several of them, so that they keep each other company and do not get lonely . . . one for the kitchen, another for the living room, and one for the pack patio.

Cuckoo clock, noun: 1. A decorative clock with a little wooden bird inside it that comes out every hour and makes a two-note sound like a cuckoo.  2. A timepiece that drives some people crazy, or at the very least, to distraction.

Meanwhile, in a parallel Universe, a bird pops out of a cuckoo clock every hour and asks, “What time is it?!”

Clovis: What goes tick-tock, woof-woof?
Mavis: A watchdog.

“The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.” -Tillie Olsen: “Tell Me a Riddle” (1980)

Chronometrophobia is a persistent fear of clocks. Maybe it has something to do with that annoying tick, tick, tick, tick . . . or maybe it is the persistent bzzz-zzz or bbbrrrnnng or beep-beep-beep of the alarm . . . or the onward march of time . . .

Alarm clock, noun: 1. A device designed to scare the daylights out of you. 2. An electronic device used to wake up people who have no pets or children.

Rancher Rick: What do you get if you cross a clock and a chicken?
Farmer Fred: An alarm cluck.

Hickory, Dickory, Dock,

Three mice ran up the clock,
     The clock struck one and
That mouse hired a personal injury attorney
     And sued for assault-and-battery.

by Author Unknown

Riddle: What has a face but cannot talk?
Solution: A clock.

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The Clock

There’s a neat little clock, -
     In the schoolroom it stands, -
And it points to the time
     With its two little hands.

And may we, like the clock,
     Keep a face clean and bright,
With hands ever ready
     To do what is right.

by Author Unknown

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“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830 - 1916)

Rudy: What do people do in clock factories?
Rudolph: They make faces all day.

Tick Tock

Tick, tock, tick, tock,
     Merrily sings the clock.
It’s time for work,
     It’s time for play,
And so it sings
     Through all the day.
Tick, tock, tick, tock,
     Merrily sings the clock.

by Author Unknown

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