Good friends are like quilts ... Thx Marge R!

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"Good friends are like quilts - they age with you, yet never lose their warmth."

I am forwarding this to those on my Seniors email list because it is so well written.

Please send back. (I did) It's neat. Don't delete this one, you'll laugh when you see the return message.

I have seen too many dear friends leave this world, too soon; before they understood the great freedom that comes with aging.

 

Whose business is it, if I choose to read, or play on the computer, until 4 AM, or sleep until noon? I will dance with myself to those 

Wonderful tunes of the 50s, 60s & 70s, and if I, at the same time, wish to weep over a lost love, I will.

 

I will walk the beach, in a swim suit that is stretched over a bulging body, and will dive into the waves, with abandon, if I choose to,

Despite the pitying glances from the jet set. They, too, will get old. 

        

I know I am sometimes forgetful. But there again, some of life is just as well forgotten. And, eventually, I remember the important things.  
 

Sure, over the years, my heart has been broken. How can your heart not break, when you lose a loved one, or when a child suffers, or even when somebody's beloved pet gets hit by a car? But broken hearts are what give us strength, and understanding, and compassion. A heart never broken, is pristine, and sterile, and will never know the joy of being imperfect.

 

I am so  blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep

Grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
 

As you get older, it is easier to be positive. You care less about what other people think. I don't question myself anymore.

I've even earned the right to be wrong.

  

So, to answer your question, I like being old. It has set me free. I like the person I have become. I am not going to live forever,

But while I am still here, I will not waste time lamenting what could have been, or worrying about what will be.

And I shall eat dessert every single day (if I feel like it).

 

MAY OUR  FRIENDSHIP NEVER COME APART, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S STRAIGHT FROM THE  HEART!
 

Forward this to at  least 7 people, and see what happens on your screen. You will laugh your head  off!

God bless this Australian dentist ... Thx Paul C!

You may have seen this but it is good to know that someone like this dentist speaks so highly of OUR NATION! 

Written by an Australian Dentist     To Kill an American       You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.      So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)   'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish , Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.   An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.      An American is Christian , or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in    Afghanistan      . The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses..   An American is also free to believe in no religion.. For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God. An American lives in the most prosperous land in      the history of the world. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.      An American is generous.. Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.   When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!   As of the morning ofSeptember 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan .. The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America   Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September 11 , 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and abetted the terrorists. So you can try to kill an American if you must.. Hitler did. So did General Tojo , and Stalin , and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty tyrants in the world.. But, in doing so you would just be killing yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.   Please keep this going!       Pass this around the World      .       Then pass it around again. It says it all, for all of us.       Please do not just delete.       Pass it on first      .