Daily Whine & Shine - June 13, 2008

Daily Whine & Shine - June 13, 2008 

by Marilyn Mackenzie

 

Whether you agree with the concept or not, everyone needs to be able to vent from time to time. That's especially true if you're one of the many who suffer from an invisible illness. We have whines and rants about pains, medical professionals and prescriptions, just to name a few. Perhaps our families listen; perhaps they don't. Even if they do, they get tired of our complaining, even if they claim to understand our constant struggles. Or if they don't get tired of our "negative energy" we think they do or will.

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy and grouchy about something?  Are you "bellyaching" (as my parents used to say)?  Are you so angry that you could spit?  Tell it here.  Here at the Daily Whine & Shine, it's acceptable to rant, vent, complain, stomp your feet, throw a tantrum and shout, "Oh shuckie darn!"

But don't go away. Surely you have some good news to share.  Then this is the place. If you're celebrating, dancing, and yelling, "Yippee skippy!" please share. Sometimes knowing about someone else's happiness gives us a bit of hope for ourselves.

Happy National Juggling Day and Kitchen Klutzes Of America Day and Blame Someone Else Day.  It's also Sewing Machine Day.  And it's Work at Home Fathers Day.  It's Friday the 13th.  Did you know that this is the only Friday the 13th in all of 2008?

Tomorrow is Pop Goes The Weasel Day and Flag Day.  (And it was my Dad's birthday.  I should put a flag out so that he can look down from Heaven and know that I'm thinking about him.) 

June 15 is Smile Power Day                      and Nature Photography Day

June 16 is National Hollerin' Contest Day and Fudge Day

June 17 is Fresh Veggies Day

June 18 is International Panic Day

June 19 is World Sauntering Day

 

 

Food for thought:

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.  You have to catch it yourself.  ~  Benjamin Franklin

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.  ~  Robert Brault

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.  ~  George Bernard Shaw

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.  ~  Charles L. Morgan

Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.  ~ Gretta Brooker Palmer

Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world.  Don't go through life creaking.  ~ H.W. Byles

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.     ~  Bertrand Russell

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.  ~ Henry Ward Beecher

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.  ~ Author Unknown

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.  ~ Berke Breathed

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~ Frederick Keonig

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.                  ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.  ~ St. Augustine