Daily Whine & Shine - June 30, 2008

Daily Whine & Shine - June 30, 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.

First.....let's celebrate!!!!!!!!

Today is Meteor Day and Please Take My Children To Work Day (stay-at-home mom talking to dad, maybe?)

Can you believe that this is the last day of June?  Already?

Tomorrow - July 1 is Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day, Build a Scarecrow Day and Canada Day (Canada Day is a celebration of Canadian nationalism, heritage and pride.)

July 2 is I Forgot Day 

July 3 is Stay Out of the Sun Day and Compliment Your Mirror Day

July 4 is Independence Day, National Country Music Day, Tom Sawyer Fence-Painting Day and Sidwalk Egg Frying Day

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So, are you ready to rant about something?  This is the place to tell all. 

It's also the place to tell all about the happy events in your life. 

What's happening in your world today?  Are you grumpy about something?  Or 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!"

Wait! Don't go away. Do you have some good news to share? Great. This is the place for that as well. 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.

Whether you're shouting, "Oh shuckie darn!" or yelling, "Yippee skippy!" - this is the place to be.

Food for thought:

It's a long quote, so get ready.....

The true greatness of a nation is not measured by the vastness of its territory, or by the multitude of its people, or by the profusion of its exports and imports; but by the extent to which it has contributed to the life and thought and progress of the world. A man's greatness is not estimated by the size of his body or of his purse; not by his family connections or social position, however high these may be. He may bulk large in public estimation today, but tomorrow he will be forgotten like a dream, and his very servants may secure a higher position and a name lasting possibly a little longer.

A man's greatness is estimated by his influence, not over the votes and empty cheers of a changing and passing crowd, but by his abiding, inspiring influence in their bidden thoughts, upon their ways of thinking, and consequently of acting. That is why the Wycliffes, Shakespeares, Miltons, Newtons, Wesleys, and Gladstones of English history live, and will live, in everlasting memory, while lesser men are remembered only through them, and the crowd of demagogues, pretenders, and self-seekers are named, if ever named, only to "point a moral, or adorn a tale."

So with nations. A great nation is not one which, like Russia, has an enormous territory ; or, like China, has an enormous population. It is the nation which gives mankind new modes of thought, new ideals of life, new hopes, new aspirations; which lifts the world out of the rut, and sets it going on a cleaner and brighter road.   L. E. Blaze

 

Think about that one a minute.  Will the US be remembered because of its new thoughts?  New ideals?  Does it matter if no one likes the US today...if she is to be remembered for helping to explain freedom to the world?  Just a thought...