Change

We all have to deal with changes in life, we get older, move home, change jobs, lose our jobs, lose loved ones, we get sick, we get stuck...
How we adapt to change, how we react to change will determine how smoothly that transition occurs.
If we resist change, we moan, we grumble, we find no good.
If we embrace change, we find hope, we can look forward.

Beer

Words

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. "
Buddha

Practical Life

A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life:

1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.

2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

3. Never spend your money before you have it.

4. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

6. We never repent of having eaten too little.

7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

8. How much pain have cost us the evils which never have happened.

9. Take things always by their smooth handle.

10. When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.

(letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825)