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Penman Lounge Highlight
::: Goodbye Michael :::
A star has been plucked from the sky.
The sky is now dimmer.
It happened on June 25th.
A day, we will always remember...
(See more on the Lamar Cole Page) |
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Breathing and Yoga by Lia Hall
Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action by letting things take their course.
Lao Tzu
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The Man Behind The Iron Mask by Rolando Rosario
Last night I had a dream of a world where my daughter hated me. She despised me with such a grudge that it could not help but remind me of her mother. A bitter chill relished in her eyes, as her words stabbed like daggers through my heart. I was never a great farther. I was never the man that kept a family shrine around his desk at work, or scheduled family events for every weekend. I was never the type of person to run around with a wallet full of pictures screaming to the world “ Look at my baby!!!!”...
(Read the Full Story) |
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Michael Jackson dies
Michael Jackson has died due to cardiac arrest...
RIP |
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Carpe Diem by Kevin J
The media has once again cast its dark shadow over another news story. A story repeatedly played on by every news channel and has now stepped up to get it's own special. A story that sooner or later will have protesters, politicians, and maybe even Jesus speak out against what the media promotes to be the problem. But in all truth it's not the problem, it's only the fall man...
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Thought of the Day
You block your blessings when your fear grows bigger than your faith!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
When life becomes a revolving door, It's time to find a window.
~ Rolando Rosario |
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Thought of the Day
Too often we over estimate how quickly our feelings are going to change because we underestimate our ability to change them!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
If you lose your ability to laugh at life. Than its quite possible, you’ve lost your ability to live it.
~ Rolando Rosario |
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Thought of the Day
What drives you? If you know great… If not, figure it out, you’re wasting your time by not knowing!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
It is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
The men who wish for death, are the smartest of us all.
~ Rolando Rosario |
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Thought of the Day
Square your shoulders to the world; be NOT the kind to give up. It's not the LOAD that weighs you down but the way you CARRY it.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
The mark of true greatness is not how good you are at your BEST, but how good you are at your worst.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Seize the day, live today as if it's your last, however don't live life so reckless that you'll have to clean up tomorrow!!!
~ Jblu |
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Thought of the Day
The only thing I'm sure of is that I don't know much, and what I do know will probably turn out to be wrong in a few years. So I try not to hold on to anything too tight. That way, my hands are free to catch some things that are a little closer to the truth.
~ Kevin J |
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Thought of the Day
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get RUN OVER if you just SIT there.
~ Luck |
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Fingering The Scapegoat by Rolando Rosario
The media has once again cast its dark shadow over another news story. A story repeatedly played on by every news channel and has now stepped up to get it's own special. A story that sooner or later will have protesters, politicians, and maybe even Jesus speak out against what the media promotes to be the problem. But in all truth it's not the problem, it's only the fall man...
(Read the Full Story) |
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Thought of the Day
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
People become attached to their burdens sometimes MORE than the burdens are attached to THEM.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Physical strength is measured by what we can CARRY; Spiritual by what we can BEAR!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
The beauty of life does not depend on how happy you are, but on how happy others can be... because of you!
~ Luck |
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Awkward Encounters by Rolando Rosario
Two lonely lovers on opposite sides of the Atlantic fall into the arms of another. Each wake up the next morning with fear of what the other will think and if they should tell them.
Six months go past and the lovers...
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Thought of the Day
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such life changes with composure has deprived misfortune of its power.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
To attain knowledge one must add things every day to life. To attain wisdom, one must remove things everyday from life.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
The person who really wants to DO something finds a WAY; the other person finds an EXCUSE!
~ Luck |
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The Poet in Exile by Ben Nardolilli
You can take the poet out of the city certainly. But can you take the city out of the poet? I suppose I will soon find out. This week I left New York City after living there for five years. First I was a college student, and then I was on my own, trying to find work in the very bowels of a recession. Needless to say I was not successful and have had to flee the metropolis of Manhattan for the much greener environs of Arlington, Virginia, my old home town, or more appropriately, county.
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Thought of the Day
You don't love a book for it's cover or pages. You love a book because of it's words and meaning.
~ Rolando Rosario |
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Thought of the Day
If you were too perpendicular to ever meet more than once, appreciate the crossing. But don’t try and go back – keep on truckin’
~ Kevin J |
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Thought of the Day
My riches consist NOT in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my WANTS.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Success does not consist in never making mistakes, but in never making the same ONE a second TIME!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Success comes before WORK only in the Dictionary!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to ADD, but when there is nothing left to take AWAY.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
If you have one soul goal in life, and that goal is deceived. There’s now nothing left, so always have a plan B.
~ Rolando Rosario |
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Thought of the Day
What you GET by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what YOU will BECOME by reaching YOUR destination.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
Unless you change HOW you ARE, YOU will always have what you’ve GOT!
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
If you want to FLY you must accept that you may FALL. The crows that you're around in the beginning may be the same ones that eat you if you FALL from grace.
~ Jblu |
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Thought of the Day
Maturity is that TIME when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see OTHERS.
~ Luck |
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Thought of the Day
What we think or what we believe, in the END, doesn’t really Matter. The only thing of real Importance is what we actually DO!
~ Luck |
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That One Colleague
You ever have that one co-worker that you are always on the verge of either slapping or shaking the crap out of? Heck I must attract them because I’ve had at least one at all my the jobs I’ve had...
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