This is a test of the Emergency Friendship System 
 

A Friend…. 

(A)ccepts you as you are 
(B)elieves in “you” 
(C)alls you just to say “HI” 
(D)oesn’t give up on you 

(E)nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts) 
(F)orgives your mistakes 
(G)ives unconditionally 
(H)elps you 
(I)nvites you over 


(J)ust “be” with you 
(K)eeps you close at heart 
(L)oves you for who you are 
(M)akes a difference in your life 


(N)ever Judges 
(O)ffer support 
(P)icks you up 
(Q)uiets your fears 
(R)aises your spirits 



(S)ays nice things about you 
(T)ells you the truth when you need to hear it 
(U)nderstands you 
(V)alues you 


(W)alks beside you 
(X)-plains things you don’t understand 
(Y)ells when you won’t listen and 
(Z)aps you back to reality 

And the 200+ illustrations add greatly to the story telling.

It’s got everything: Savvy. Witty. Loving. Bitchy.  And often, surprisingly moving.

This is a remarkable portrait of an era, of the man himself, and a world he lived in and enchanted.

Oh to have been a friend or acquaintance and get a letter from him!  What a delight it would have been.

Bernard Shaw. T.E. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, the Churchills, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, FDR ..They are all here.  Close encounters with close friends and with the great and the gifted.

The Letters of Noel Coward – Edited and with Commentary by Barry Day

2007

ISBN 978-0-375-42303-1

What era do you belong in?

http://www.playbuzz.com/cassandralewis10/which-time-period-do-you-belong-in

14 wolves were released and the astonishing things happened next

Don’t be confused.  Two different titles but the same story.

“The Yukon is a wonderful country for men and dogs, but it kills women and horses.” At least that was what Amy Wilson was told.

Entitled When Days are Long: A Nurse in the North, by Wilson, who was a registered nurse in the Yukon from 1949 to 1951. In its original release in 1965, the book was titled No Man Stands Alone, and the American release came out under the title A Nurse in the Yukon many years later.

Regardless of which version you might be reading, the story remains the same.

Amy Wilson, who had been a practitioner in various isolated communities in northern Alberta, was hired to fill the job of public health nurse along the Alaska Highway and in the Yukon caring for 3,000 indigenous people in an area covering 50 million hectares.

In 1950, northern roads were crude; Aircraft weren’t as reliable as they are today, and communications were far less sophisticated. Despite all these drawbacks, she provided care for the sick and ailing to the best of her ability, delivered with compassion and understanding.

This book is a great read, and I heartily recommend it.

You know you are on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.

What would you try if you had no fear?

“Never underestimate a child’s ability to get into more trouble.” – Martin Mull“

Age and Corruption beats Youth and Beauty every time.” …Tony Bourdain 

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.” – Pete Seeger“

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”- Frank Wilczek

ELECTION REVEALS SIMPLE TRUTHS

The election results for 2013 have borne out two simple truths:  Nice guys finish last and polls are for exotic dancers.

The hardest thing in life is knowing which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. — Herbert Hoover

The problem with designing something that’s totally idiot proof is that society is always designing a better idiot ~Steve Jobs

Don’t hire a person with single digit handicap in golf.  They will never have time to work.

Shouldn’t there be a course taught on how to read the handwriting on the wall?