Mother's Day 2011

Dear Son and Dear Daughter with me on Mother's Day 2011

On Mother's Day 2011, I had ALL of my children--my children, my children's spouses, my children's children--with me. I was quite happy.

Audio Books 2010

JAMES BALDWIN
The Fire Next Time
CHANG-RAE LEE
The Surrendered
ANITA DIAMANT
The Last Days of Dogtown
GERALDINE BROOKS
Year of Wonders®
People of the Book®
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
The time traveller's wife
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
What you owe me ®
72 Hour Hold
JENNIFER CHIAVERINI
The Master Quilter
The Lost Quilter
The Winding Way Quilt
JOHN GRISHAM
Skipping Christmas
Playing for Pizza
The King of Torts
The Appeal
The Broker
ROBERT LUDLUM
The Bourne Betrayal
the Bourne Deception
The Bourne Legacy
The Bancroft Strategy
PHILIP MARGOLER
The Fugitive
NEVADA BARR
Blind Descent
Hunting Season
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
Kindred-®
RON CARLSON
The Signal
KRIS RADISH
Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA
JHUMPA LAHIRI
The Namesake
DONNA LEON
Through a glass darkly (#15) - A Guido Brunetti book -20 in the series
Blood from a Stone (#14) - A Guido Brunetti book -20 in the series
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Half of a Yellow Sun®

Wiser on Wednesday - The Paradoxical Commandments

The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.

© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

Wiser on Wednesdays - Contentment

Do not spoil what you have

by desiring what you have not;

remember that what you now have

was once among the things you only hoped for.

- Epicurus