Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons! ************ "Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." **************
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White
************ "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this… When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting. After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”. “Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy” But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place. So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts. But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”. And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss. But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.
20 comments:
nice pic love the flag
That is such a quiet photo, a wonderful way to end a Disney day!
Very nice shot! I've never been there.
it is little bit grey sky...nice.
Mine in here Thanks
is that in Disneyland...wow...nice
My SWF in here Thanks
Very nice photo! Great capture for sky watch.
Very nice! :)
I`ve been visiting Disney Land in paris. A fun and beautful place to visit.
Great shot and the flag flying what could be better than that?
Green calm below, sky quietness above.... hope to see you too at my corner...
Fantastic photo of a flag flying in the wind!
Lovely Sky Watch shot.
I always like to see flags in Sky Watch and this view is just great...
Let me guess... you were hoping it would cool things off but the rain just made it stickier?
Clouds retreating is always a lovely sight!
Sorry I didn't get you any good pictures of the huge storm before the reception... just not very good with a camera yet.
You have captured both moods; a sense of storm but also that of clearing. Very nice. I like the black and white format; it gives it drama.
nice one!
Great sky watch, great picture.
Marvelous pic of the Disney flag and the pix below are awesome! Looks like you had a real good time!
Come visit me as I celebrate my birthday on Sunday May 25. There'll be cake and balloons! :)
marcia, you asked if I was stopped when I took my Skywatch pix and no I wasn't but I was in the passenger seat! :D
A nice shot with the flag against the emerging sun.
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