After getting Sean off to school this morning and things together, I took a ride over across the river with Mom to pick up Elda & the kids to come over for the day. It was a nice ride.
Once I got home I spent a short amount of time tooling around the yard to see if anything was interesting. Mrs. Chong found this critter and a few of his friends eatting away at her azealas. She let me snap a photo before happily committing "insecticide".
Walter came by to visit before his dentist visit. Afterwards he picked me up to take me out to lunch and the afternoon for my upcoming birthday. We had a nice time together.
It has been looking like rain all day and we could use some more, I just wish it would make up it's mind whether it is going to come down or not.
Click on the image to the left to be directed to actual footage shot on 9/11 by a couple only 500 yards away from the twin towers. They have entitled the footage "September 11, 2001: What We Saw".
Newsletter Gleanings:
Quotes:
- The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts;
- You have power over your mind - not outside events; and
- Your life is what your thoughts make it. [all three from Marcus Aurelius, emperor of Rome]
Thought for the Day: "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius
Thought of the Week: If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to prove yourself, your money will never bring you happiness. - T Harv Eker
An Insight from The PatriotPost: Rome fell September 4, 476AD. It was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals, who at first assimilated and worked as servants, but then came so fast they did not learn the Latin Language or the Roman form of government. Highly trained Roman Legions moving rapidly on their advanced road system, were strained fighting conflicts worldwide. Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced most of its grain production to North Africa, and when Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have the resources to retaliate. Attila the Hun was committing terrorist attacks. The city of Rome was on welfare with citizens being given free bread. One Roman commented: Those who live at the expense of the public funds are more numerous than those who provide them. Tax collectors were more terrible than the enemy. Gladiators provided violent entertainment in the Coliseum. There was injustice in courts, exposure of unwanted infants, infidelity, immorality and perverted bathhouses. 5th-Century historian Salvian wrote: O Roman people be ashamed... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us. William Federer
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