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VOTT IF ... 
you could get a short, humorous, informative e-mail each week that was insightful and meaningful to your life?
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Valuing Ourselves  
We have all heard about spending "quality time" with our children, our spouses, our friends, or even our dog or cat. What about the quality time we need to spend with ourselves?

People are so 'busy', they forget all about that very important person they live their entire life with. It is important to acknowledge that being who needs consideration and kindness as much as anyone else; that being who has limitless dreams and infinite potential; that being who came to this planet to fan the divine spark, which resides within us all, into a bright and beautiful flame. So, how are you going to find out all these things unless you get to know yourself?

Each day spend some time in solitude. You will learn who you are - not  someone with superficial short-comings and inadequacies, restrictions the so-called real world tries put on us - but, another child of the cosmos dancing in companionship to the eternal rhythm.


Time Tippies
There is a rhyme about a young lady who swallowed her watch and then took a potion to pass the time away. We maintain this is a gross misuse of time. Our point being that as time per se is a fiction, we should be careful how we use it. Take time to be creative, take time to plan, but leave time to act. 


Inspiration  
Once upon a time, Monday night was roller-blade hockey for the children in our village. Unisex and competitive! 

There was one child, an eight-year old, a fair skater, and absolutely new to the game or competition of any kind. At first he watched. Then he started moving to the ball if no one else had it. Soon he was passing to the best player on his team. Eventually, he realized that it was not impolite to take the ball from an opponent or to shoot it at the goalie. At each little victory, there was a quick glance to see if mother had noticed. The highlight of the game was when he beat the goalie, his father, with a really great shot. 

This week our heroes are all the little folk that venture out into that big world. We salute their courage. 


Funecdotes
John Philpot Curran (1750-1817), an Irish lawyer and judge, was renowned as an orator and known for his sharp wit. His speeches on behalf of the accused in state trials were particularly famous.

During Curran's last illness, his doctor made an early morning call, and remarked that his patient was coughing with some difficulty. "That is surprising," retorted Curran, "for I have been practicing all night."