13: Do Tell
1. I don’t like it when people precede their sentences with the word “Look,” unless, of course, it’s my 2 year old grandson Liam.
2. Carolyn Kennedy lost her chance to run for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat in 2008 largely because she came across poorly in interviews, using the term “you know,” 12 times in less than a minute.
3. Roger Ulrich demonstrated the power of having a connection with nature in his classic 1984 study with patients recovering from surgery in a suburban Pennsylvania hospital. He manipulated the view from the convalescents’ windows so that half were able to gaze at nature while the others saw only a brick wall. Those with trees outside their window recovered faster, and requested fewer pain medications, than those with a brick view. ~ From When Trees Die, People Die HERE.
4. More dumb than trying to classify ketchup as a vegetable or taking down the solar panels that Jimmy Carter put up on the White House: “Trees, how many of ’em do we need to look at?” Ronald Reagan
5. My four-year-old grandson Bryce is so sweet that he had to look away and hide his eyes when we were watching a nursery rhyme on youtube and the farmers wife cut of the tails of the three blind mice.
6. Yesterday, while in the middle of getting my teeth cleaned, the hygienist asked if I was okay. “I’m mentally shopping for shoes,” I answered.
7. “Now is the time to confront the conspiracy of silence on climate change. It is time for complacency to yield to common sense, and narrow interests to bend to the common good. Future generations are counting on us. We all herald our mothers and fathers’ “Greatest Generation.” But we should also ask what our kids will say about our generation if we don’t wake up to reality.” ~ John Kerry
8. A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. Greek Proverb
9. “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.” ~ Sister Joan Chittister, a Benedictine nun
10. I could care less if Beyonce lip synced that national anthem at Obama’s inauguration.
11. I did care about Gabby Giffords’ statement at a hearing on gun violence yesterday HERE.
12. When my son Dylan was 6 years old he said, “If they come and say you have to go to war, I’ll say ‘why don’t you?’”
13. His brother Josh said “I wish war was extinct, like the dinosaur age.”
January 31st, 2013 12:51 am
#2: you know I noticed that as well, eh! (Canadian).
#4: no comment, as it is bad karma to speak poorly of those whom have passed on. But I would like to crack one off….no no, must show restraint.
#6: Alex I’ll take ‘Things You’re Not Likely To Hear a Male Say’ for two hundred, please.
#12 and 13: starts to hum Graham Nash’s ‘Teach Your Children’…….ya done did good.
January 31st, 2013 10:08 am
#13 oh please yes
January 31st, 2013 11:02 am
#4 – unfortunately, that is the attitude of many short-sighted individuals today, too. Ugh!
#7 – Amen to that!
#9 – Sadly, she’s hit the nail square on the head.
#10 – I don’t understand what difference it would make, anyway.
January 31st, 2013 11:36 am
I’m afraid future generations won’t have anything good to say about my generation – I’m on the tail end of the baby boomers. I suspect the words “selfish” and “stupid” might come up frequently.
January 31st, 2013 11:47 am
Very inspirational 13.
January 31st, 2013 11:50 am
Nursery Rhymes can be violent and weird what are 3 men doing in a tub anyway??
I love your answer to the dental hygienist and I bet he/she did too.
#9 and #10 are Right on!! and both say a lot about are media and what makes news!
I loved Gabby Gifford’s statement and she looks like a child of innocence again!!!
January 31st, 2013 3:35 pm
#9 gives me the words that I needed to really understand why I feel the way I feel. I like the idea of shopping for shoes when getting teeth cleaned…or shopping for truffles perhaps?
February 1st, 2013 1:44 am
2 — “You know” and “I mean” are two phrases that really irritate me in celebrity interviews. Athletes especially (pro and amateur alike) need to tape and listen to themselves. These were both taboo in my HS senior English class, along with “like.” Like, you know what I mean?
Agree with all you said here regarding nature and climate control. I was saddened late last fall when I discovered they had mowed down about 75 percent of the trees and bushes along a nearby bike path. I can understand thinning out dense undergrowth, but cutting down healthy young trees?
Also agree with 9 and 11.
February 1st, 2013 11:07 pm
Why do hygienists (and dentists) always ask you questions when your mouth is full of grit, fingers, and tools and you can’t answer??
February 2nd, 2013 12:14 am
I have wondered that too, Jeff!
February 2nd, 2013 11:19 am
Resonating … Numbers 3, 8, 9, and 10