Volume 23 No. 34
August 19, 2016
"the river of dreams" excerpt
In the middle of the night
I go walking in my sleep
From the mountains of faith
To a river so deep
I must be looking for something

And even though I know the river is wide
I walk down every evening and I stand on the shore
And try to cross to the opposite side
So I can finally find out what I've been looking for

We all end in the ocean
We all start in the streams
We're all carried along
By the river of dreams
In the middle of the night

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law of the garbage truck
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. 
 
We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. 
 
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!  The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. 
 
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.  And I mean, he was really friendly.
 
So I asked, "Why did you just do that?  This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"
 
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."
 
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks.  They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.  As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you.  Don't take it personally.
 
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.  Don't take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
 
The bottomline is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
 
Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so...love the people who treat you right and pray for the ones who don't.
 
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
 
Have a blessed, garbage-free day!
 
David J. Pollay




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"Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."  -Unknown

"Constant kindness can accomplish much.  As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." -Albert Schweitzer

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"Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower."  -Shigenori Kameoka

"All of us have two educations - one which we receive from others; another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves."
-John Randolph 

"In all these years I've learned, I hope, not to take what is not given." -Brother David Steindl-Rast 

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