So far I’m learning lots about the history of this religious war we think we are going to win. The whole thing started in 1900 B.C.!!! What are we doing over there? That is the way they live…who does george think he is fooling? The book is confirming my opinions and that is always refreshing. I’ll keep reading.

Oh and there are those requirements for work such as “The Fred Factor” or one of hundreds by John Maxwell or Steven Covey….they remind me of diets: We all know what to do to get the results we want, it’s just doing it day in and day out that’s the problem. But, good for them….they are capitalizing on our inability to practice simple but obvious rules, just like the diet industry.

I pick one or the other up daily to keep the rhythm in my life with a little rhyme or verse…it keeps me sane.

For example:

Lending Out Books 

You’re always giving, my therapist said.

You have to learn how to take.  Whenever

you meet a woman, the first thing you do is lend her your books.  You think she’ll

have to see you again in order to return them.

But what happens is, she doesn’t have the time

to read them, and she’s afraid if she sees you again

you’ll expect her to talk about them, and will

want to lend her even more.  So she

cancels the date.  you end up losing

a lot of books.  You should borrow hers.

                                                                 ——-Hal Sirowitz 

True story about the leper colonies in Hawaii. That was America’s doing only 150 years ago! They shipped these ill people, and those they thought were ill, out to a rock in the ocean, without food or shelter, to die. I have to stop and put it down for awhile because the idea of it disgusts me so. It’s difficult to believe this country would do such a thing and not only once but several times in the history of America. Disturbing, but it makes you realize that there is a reason we have a system to change laws….some should never be set in stone.