Apiarians

Were I to be the founder of a new sect, I would call them Apiarians, and, after the example of the bee, advise them to extract the honey of every sect."  

- Thomas Jefferson

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”

Kahlil Gibran - The Prophet

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

-Geronimo

'May we live in peace without weeping.

May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing.

And may our love fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.'

Owen Waters

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

~ Sufi Saying (Hafiz)

  “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

― Richard Bach

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is a crack in everything.

That's how the light gets in.

~ Leonard Cohen

When Love breathes life through dry branches, young leaves begin to grow.

~ Rumi

""[Ubuntu is] a concept that we have in our Bantu languages at home. Ubuntu is the essence of being a person. It means that we are people through other people. We cannot be fully human alone. We are made for interdependence, we are made for family. When you have ubuntu, you embrace others. You are generous, compassionate. If the world had more ubuntu, we would not have war. We would not have this huge gap between the rich and the poor. You are rich so that you can make up what is lacking in others. You are powerful so that you can help the weak, just as a mother or father helps their children. This is God's dream."

~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Night Music ~ Louis Armstrong - Danny Kaye

Saturday Matinee,

Night Music ~ Agony | Into the woods 2014 | Chris Pine & Billy Magnussen

Encore

Found For Friday

I don’t care how much you love turkey, we don’t allow that kind of fowl language at the dinner table.

A married couple went to the hospital together to have their baby delivered. Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pain to the father. He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very much in favor of it.

The doctor set the knob to 10 percent for starters, explaining that even 10 percent was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced before. But as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine, so he asked the doctor to go ahead and bump it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20 percent pain transfer.

The husband was still feeling fine. The doctor checked the husband's blood pressure and pulse and was amazed at how well he was doing. At this, they decided to try for 50 percent.

The husband continued to feel quite well. Since it was obviously helping out his wife considerably, he encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic.

When they got home, the mailman was dead on their porch.

A job circumcising elephants isn't so bad.

The salary is small but the tips are big.

In democracy, it's your vote that counts.

In feudalism, it's your count that votes.

I think there are about 1-2 million baseball fields in the world but that is just a ballpark guess.

When the gastroenterologist retired, he threw in the bowel.

Ruth and Johnny side by side

Went out for an auto ride

They hit a bump; Ruth hit a tree

And John kept going, ruthlessly.

Arranging Goliath's funeral was a giant undertaking.

Smartly dressed poultry would be called chic hens.

Now that they allow us to wear jeans at the office everyday, I am no longer a slacker.

There was a boating accident between the yacht,

Red Dawn, and the schooner, Blue Lagoon.

It left the survivors marooned.

The weather forecast was for freezing rain

and sure enough it was an ice day.

Two attractive female birds were showing off in front of some males. Both had spent two hours at the hairdresser, but it was the curly bird that got the perm.

HT/ John Klaus

Night Music ~ Via, da brava - Netrebko, Kwiecien, Del Carlo (Don Pasquale)