Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Manic Monday

Monday, June 09, 2008

Manic Monday

Lisa’s Manic Monday #120

What is your ideal age?
Sixty, since that is how old I am going to be this year and it will be my best year yet.

What is your best excuse for being late?
No excuse, if you are late you shouldn’t make excuses and this is from a person who is always chronically late. I am always running around looking for stuff that I should have had gotten ready earlier instead of the last minute.

If you had to give yourself a nickname what would it be?
Dee, that is what my brother calls me. It is hard for him to call me Diana after fifty years of calling me Don, so we informally settled on Dee.

5 comments:

Anonymous6/9/08, 5:33 PM
Nice answers - I love your positive attitude to your upcoming 60th birthday. I think society has such a negative attitude to age - and it's just a natural process we all have to go through. I prefer to think of myself as nicely maturing, rather than ageing, LOL - like a good wine :). Happy MM!
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Unknown6/9/08, 7:47 PM
I must agree that you're having a fantastic year!

I happen to like Dee or D even. It's short and sweet and to the point. :)
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Kwizgiver6/9/08, 8:29 PM
Great answers. It's wonderful that you're having such a great year.
:-)
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MiLeT6/9/08, 9:32 PM
you've come a long way. i'm only half your age and I know i would still be experiencing a lot.

hope you could drop by mine!
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Tiffany Aller6/10/08, 12:01 AM
Ok, looking at your profile picture, I have a hard time believing that you're turning 60! 40, maybe, but 60? Dang, girl!

I think "Dee" is a great nickname - a good compromise for your brother and yourself.

Happy Monday!
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Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers