Tea Time

One day my mother was out and my dad was in charge of me and
my brother, who is four years older than I am. I was maybe one
and a half years old and had just recovered from an accident
in which my arm had been broken, among other injuries. Someone
had given me a little tea set as a get-well gift, and it was
one of my favorite toys.

Daddy was in the living room engrossed in the evening news and
my brother was playing nearby in the living room when I
brought Daddy a little cup of "tea," which was just water.
After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy
tea, my mom came home. My dad made her wait in the living room
to watch me bring him a cup of tea, because it was "just the
cutest thing!"

My mom waited, and sure enough, here I came down the hall with
a cup of tea for Daddy and she watched him drink it up.

She then asked, "Did it ever occur to you that the only place
that baby can reach to get water is the toilet?"

By Anonymous

Until We Can Be At Peace

"We will never be at peace with the nations next to us
until we are at peace with the person who sleeps next to us."

~A MountainWings Original Quote by Nathaniel Bronner Jr.~

"Like wise, we will never be at peace with the person who sleeps
next to us until we can be at peace with the person we are."

~submitted by Moe Childs, Canada~

Can You See The Screen?

Stop

Can you see the screen?

Of course you can or else you wouldn't be reading this.




Be Thankful

His Name Wasn't Fleming

The story concerning Alexander Fleming and Winston Churchill
isn't really true. I wish it was because it's a beautiful story
and it does illustrate the principle that you reap what you sow

Actually you don't reap what you sow, you reap the fruits of
what you sow.

You don't sow a seed and reap a seed. You sow a seed and reap a
whole plant, be it quick, slow or in eternity.


~A MountainWings Original~

His Name Was Fleming

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.

One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard
a cry for help coming from a nearby swamp. He dropped his tools
and ran to the swamp. There, mired to his waist in black muck,
was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.

Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow
and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up
to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed
nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of
the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's
life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish
farmer replied, waving off the offer. At that moment, the
farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that
your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good
education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow
to a man you can be proud of."
And that he did.

In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's
Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known
throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming,
the discoverer of Penicillin.

Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with
pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman?
Lord Randolph Churchill.

His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

Husband Fact

No husband has ever been shot while doing the dishes.

The Obvious

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less
and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not
even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums.

There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

~Buckminster Fuller~


from The Mountain:
You do need to understand science to understand the truth of
Buckminster Fuller's statement.

No Psychiatrist

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one,
for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough,
he might become disturbed.
~James Thurber~


from The Mountain:
Although this was probably said as a joke, it has an underlying
truth. When you listen constantly to other's problems, those
problems have a tendency to permeate your world.

Be careful what you listen to on a constant basis.