It’s amazing how such a sweet life change can make hearing bad news even worse.
What the hell is wrong with some people in this world?
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They Say It Changes You. They’re Right.
Posted on April 13, 2007 by Jorge
Exceeding Expectations
What a rollercoaster week it has been.
It started off as a fast (yet controlled) car trip to a hospital, and is now an ongoing adventure.
A good portion of my life before this point has been spent thinking about this very thing.
But no matter how much you read about it, or mentally prepare for it, I belive there is a part of it that you will never, ever be able to understand until long after it has happened.
That path to that understanding is an adventure.
You Think You Know Someone…
I am immensely proud of Mrs. J.
I am in awe of what she did and consequently, have even more respect for all of my female friends who have kids.
I could take all of the pain I’ve ever had in my life, and wrap it all into one moment, and I doubt that it is interest on the tax of the pain that my wife went through.
But if you ask her for her opinion, she would tell you that it was all worth it.
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The Sun Rose Twice Today
Posted on April 7, 2007 by Jorge
What a roller coaster of a day.
Many people have sent us wonderful notes, but this one, from my friend Nick, always gets me…
Hallow your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out ‘Olivia!’
– Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
I.v.261-263
The planet was feeling a bit nicer when I woke up this morning. Now I know why.
Nicholas Rice
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On Patience…
Posted on April 2, 2007 by Jorge
These quotes mean something to those who know me…
Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.
– Dr. Robert Anthony
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
– Matthew Arnold
Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience.
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
Patience comes to those who wait.
Patience is a virtue.
Patience is the mother of will.
– Gurdjieff quotes
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
– George Savile
Patience is the art of hoping.
– Marquis de Vauvenargues
My favourite…
The greatest prayer is patience.
– Buddha
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Inappropriately Lost
Posted on March 30, 2007 by Jorge
Inappropriately Stated
On a regular basis, I go for lunch with Shatton. We usually go to the food court located in his building to a place called Manchu Wok.
Shatton came up with the verb Manchu-wokking to describe this activity.
As always, with the good and the funnay, I shared this info with Mrs. J.
Last night, we were talking about our plans for today. She wanted to use this magical verb, but ended up leaving out a section of the root word, creating a completely different word…
Mrs. J: So tomorrow I’m going to check out Sears.
Jorge: Sure.
Mrs. J: And for lunch, you’ll be…[Trails off.]
Jorge: I’ll be what?
Mrs. J: I was going to say that you’ll be Manchu-ing with Shatton.
Jorge: That just sounds wrong.
[They both laugh.]
Lost and Found
I posted an article about Lost a while ago. You can read that post here.
How do people feel about this show now?
I remember at the beginning when I would salivate at the mere mention of the word Lost.
Now I don’t care about it at all. I watch it for the sake of seeing how they’re going to rescue the show rather than the folks on the island.
Thoughts?
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