“When you do something nice for somebody, forget it immediately. When someone does something nice for you, never forget it.”
Lesson from Jim Haynes – The Guardian
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We Are Not Broken
Sister Monica Joan steals the show again (s7 e8) with this apposite moment:
We are leaping into grief as if we had embraced it as a form of recreation. We are not what we have lost. We are not what has been taken from us. You are all too willing to embrace the void. If you do not cherish what remains you will all become as nothing. You will be nothing. We are not broken. We are each as whole as we will ever be again. And in the end when we cease to be we will all become memories.
As usual Sister Monica Joan, the character with the most clouded vision, cuts through the confusion with the greatest of clarity.
Standards
I can’t believe that this has been sat in my inbox for six years. That speaks a lot to the simplicity and strength of the sentiment.
“The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”
This came from the Chief of the Australian Army, Lt Gen David Morrison, as a publicly released address to the Australian Armed Forces. This address was prompted by the findings of investigations into allegations of unacceptable behaviour by Army members.
Via: Skepchick and Brisbane Times
The hobby is dying …
It interesting sitting across multiple hobbies / interests and seeing the parallels and difference. In this case dog showing and railway modelling. Both have their fair share of deep thinkers
Mike at OST Publications, one of the model railroaders who seems to look at things in a different light, just blogged this:
Sorry Mike, you had already boiled that post down to the absolute essence of the matter, there’s no room to just skim a morsel out of it!
Could this possibly apply to dog showing? Of course it can, we hear enough of the crisis mode not too much of the “opportunities” mode. We were helped and encouraged into the community and hope that we can do the same.