Monthly Archives: April 2006

Look carefully!  This is a true sign of spring!

Sometimes a phrase just captures you!

I’ve been reminded more than once recently of a quotation from a friends who just passed away.  She spent a lot of her time with people.  As a counsellor she could be counted on to arrive when the hospital had someone to deal with a drunk or a person coming down from an addiction.

Not that she didn’t have things!  She loved gadgets and electronic items. 

But when it came down to the crunch she would take people over material things anytime.

So put this one in your memory box – “The best things in life aren’t things!”

We started at 2:00 this afternoon.  By 3:30 the funeral service was completed. 

I’m not used to 1 1/2 hour funerals.  Sounds boring to me!!

But you have to understand Mary. 

She was a born storyteller and an intense listener.  When you were with her you knew she was concentrated on  you.  And she would keep your funny bone tickled!

Imagine those she gathered around her!  Born storytellers and intensely interested in you!

Put them on the platform to speak and you have laughter and crying and not a moment wasted!

Did I enjoy the funeral?  As Mary would have said, with two thumbs up — “You betcha!!”

I can see God, whom she loved, sitting down with Mary and sharing a laugh right now!

So what are some of the old sayings you remember?

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.  (But if no one flushed the bushes we’d never be able to invite company over!)

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you!  (Might work on a nine year old, but talk to anyone at the half century mark and see if that applies!)

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.  (OK, most of the time except with toast — then its just burned!)

A penny saved is a penny earned.  (I’m not so sure.  The effort to earn a penny in a business transaction has become a negative investment balance nowadays!)

Try your hand at some old sayings.  Do they still ring true?