August 2002

Week One

"Cultivate good habits - all the bad ones grow wild."
~ Author Unknown

Week Two

"In any emergency in life there is nothing so strong and safe as the simple truth."
~ Charles Dickens

Week Three

A Friend's Greeting

~ Author Unknown

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me;
I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be;
I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day
As you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
I'd like to do the big things and the splended things for you,
To brush the gray from out your skies and leave them only blue;
I'd like to say the kindly things that I so oft have heard,
And feel that I could rouse your soul the way that mine you've stirred.

I'd like to give you back the joy that you have given me,
Yet that were wishing you a need I hope will never be;
I'd like to make you feel as rich as I, who travel on,
Undaunted in the darkest hours that I could repay
A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along my way;
And could I have one wish fulfilled, this only would it be,
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me.

Week Four

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
~ Cicero

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