Through It All

All the water in the world could never sink a ship unless it gets inside. Just same with all the pressure of the world can’t tear you apart and can never hurt you unless you let it in.

Narcotics

HEROINE

Street Names: Blanco, brown, sugar, kabayo, kengkoy, gamot, matsakao, pulbos, sapsap, tinik.

Dangers: Dependence liability is high, dependence usually develops more rapidly and sensitivity to respiratory depressant effects.

  

Streets of Neyveli

Apparently, the founding fathers of the industrial township of Neyveli, India, had a hard time choosing names for their hundreds of avenues, streets and lanes. Apart from political leaders, Indian states, a variety of flora and fauna, and professions and trades, such as engineer, there are roads named after countries, such as America, Italy and Australia, and after mining machinery such as bulldozer and dumper. The power station is duly honored by streets names Power, Boiler and Turbine. Chemical units get their share: Nitrogen, Oxygen and Ammonia. Nor are Ohm and Ampere forgotten. Ruby, handcraft, lamp, coconut, lime, and pumpkin – you name it. Neyveli has a street named after it.

  

Question of Age

Writer Willie Morris remembers the time he was on a college lecture tour during the Vietnam War years.

A student at one school taunted him. “I don’t trust anyone over 30,” he said. “What do you think of that?”

Morris replied, “I didn’t trust anyone under 30 – they lacked experience, were self-righteous and ignorant of the rhythms of history. Furthermore, I trusted no one over 30, obsessed as they were with material things.”

“How old are you?” the young man wanted to know.

“I’m 30” Morris said.

Famous Vegetarian

“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconvenience, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but with this lighter repast I made the greater progress, from greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.”

– Ben Franklin

“Flesh foods are not the best nourishment for human beings and were not the food of our primitive ancestors. There is nothing necessary or desirable for human nutrition to be found in meats or flesh foods which is not found in and derived from plant foods.”

– Dr. J. H. Kellog

“It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

“Whenever I injure any kind of life, I must be quite certain that it is necessary. I must never go beyond the unavailable, not even in apparently insignificant things. Then man is truly ethical who shatters no ice crystals as it sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from a tree…”

– Albert Schweitzer

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

– Albert Einstein

Guardian Angels

Thank You, my God in Heaven, for our Guardian Angels dear. They’re a token of your love to help us overcome life’s fears. May they guide us all to what is right in all our acts, thoughts, words and plans. Amen.

Civilization

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing and doing things historian usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry.

The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.

Will Durant

Death Files

A reporter spent 90 minutes conducting an interview with an attorney. “When will this run in the paper?” the attorney asked.

“Well, that’s sort of up to you,” the reporter said. “I keep the obituary files.”

Blessed Memory

Everything I’ve done will be someone else memory; they might forget the exact words I’ve said or exact things  I’ve done but there’s no way for them to forget the way I made them fell loved.

Friends in Capiz

Traveling by car, Kaye, who wants to attend the annual Ati-Atihan Festival got hopelessly lost in Capiz. After wee hours of driving in circles, she found a native who wears a friendly smile and tried to explain the complicated route to Kalibo. Seeing the confused look on Kaye’s face, the man rephrased the directions. “Don’t listen to anything I say,” he told her. “Just watch my hands!”

Kaye got to her destination.