Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Saturday 9: Wouldn't It Be Nice

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Saturday 9: Wouldn't It Be Nice

1. What's the nicest thing a complete stranger ever did for you?
Let me go first at check-out counter.

2. What one thing always speaks deeply to you, to your spirit, no matter your mood or what else is going on in your life?
Just looking at all the beauty that sounds us every day. You can find beauty anywhere you look, you just have to look for it.

3. How many jobs have you held in your life? How many of those were part of your chosen career field?
Three (not counting summer jobs). All three of them were in my chosen career field.

4. Of those jobs, how many did you leave voluntarily?
One, my first employer went bankrupt. My second job I left voluntarily, my boss left for a new job and I gave him my resume, and that lead me to my final job. I worked at my last job for twenty-eight years and then they closed their doors and moved south.

5. How did you discover Saturday 9? How long have you played? (Thank you for joining in!)
Friends were playing Saturday 9 and I joined in, that was back in April 2008

6. What's the worst beverage you've ever tasted?
Anything “Sugar Free”, cannot stand the taste of artificial sweeteners. They leave a horrible after taste, yuck!

7. Is there anything in life you are "certain" about? Firm in your beliefs? Strong in your convictions?
Yes, that some day I am going to die.

8. How did you come up with the title of your blog's posts?
Good question! Well the name of my blog was the name of my Geocities web-site and a friend suggested that I start a blog and I kept the name. The name came about because Connecticut is the Nutmeg state and the “Little Corner” came about because it gives a “folksy” feel to the tile, I wanted a blend of a soapbox and coffee-shop images where people could gather and discuss what’s on their mind.

9. Would you consider yourself a good cook?
I think so, except for pastries.

3 comments:

I am Harriet1/15/11, 10:26 AM
I'm always letting people in front of me in line if they only have a few things and I have a cart load.

Have a great weekend!
http://harrietandfriends.com/2011/01/how-did-you-come-up-with-the-title-of-your-blogs-posts/
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Bud Fisher1/15/11, 10:31 AM
I cannot wrap my brain around a 28 year job! Wow. Good for you! :)
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Kwizgiver1/15/11, 12:29 PM
I agree with the diet soda answer, some of them have such a nasty aftertaste.
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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

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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