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Subject: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:27 PM Back when I was older, I used to get ridiculously upset about things I had no control over. Now, I know my limitations, do what I can to resolve a problem and then try to accept whatever happens. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:29 PM Ten to one someone quotes Twain or Dylan on this thread. The older I get, the more I know I don't know. That I do know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:32 PM I ain't betting on that one, Peace.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: freda underhill Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:36 PM I hope I grow older soon! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:51 PM LOL Good one, Freda. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Dec 05 - 12:55 PM Hmmm. Reminds me of an Art Thieme CD, The Older I Get, The Better I Was. If everybody would buy Art Thieme CD's, this world would be a better place. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Mingulay Date: 23 Dec 05 - 01:52 PM Now I'm younger again, I want to grow old disgracefully!! Maybe I like the sound of "tutting" lol. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: gnu Date: 23 Dec 05 - 02:08 PM I'd like to be young again. I knew everything then. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Janie Date: 23 Dec 05 - 03:13 PM When I was older I took myself and others alot more seriously than I do now. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 03:19 PM Back when I was older, I thought that every question had an answer.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: gnu Date: 23 Dec 05 - 03:29 PM What? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 03:35 PM Some questions don't have definitive answers.... they are beyond the capacity of the human mind to comprehend. Some questions seem to have multiple answers... each of which is the one true answer for the person who thinks it is the only one. That's definitely in evidence on Mudcat. If there was only one true answer to every question, threads would only be two or three posts long. Plenny of opinions, not as many answers.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: gnu Date: 23 Dec 05 - 03:40 PM Wouldn't be much fun if we had all the answers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: bobad Date: 23 Dec 05 - 04:09 PM I thought people who were of the age at which I now am, were old, I don't think that now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: leftydee Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:16 PM The world is gray as a youth, seems to be black and white in our middle years and turns back to gray as we age. Will someone please pass the paisley crayon? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: leftydee Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:19 PM or maybe the tie-dyed crayon again? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: GUEST,Wesley S Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:35 PM When you finally know that you don't know - that when you begin to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:36 PM I didn't know that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 23 Dec 05 - 08:47 PM ObSongs: I have never cut throats, tho I often yearned to, Never sung the dirty songs that my fancy turned to. I have been a good boy, and done what was expected. I shall be an old bum, loved but unrespected. -- Carl Sandburg --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Bobert Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:12 PM Ah, I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now... Yeah, Jerry, the older I get the better I understand what was mesnt in the line of that song... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:21 PM I don't suppose anyone took me up on the ten to one bet, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:35 PM I was waiting for it, Peace... and the reference to Art's album, too. We got 'em both... I never claimed to have an original thought :-) Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:37 PM Back when I was older, I was always concerned about what people thought of me. Now that I am younger, I am more concerned about what I think of myself. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:41 PM If I knew then what I know now, and if I could do now what I could then . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 23 Dec 05 - 09:55 PM You can, Peace, you can.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: leftydee Date: 23 Dec 05 - 10:34 PM Back when I was older I didn't have much of a sense of humor about myself, now I see my everyday life with great hilarity as what a silly man I am. Feels good too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 01:04 AM Hey, lefty: Isn't it a relief, not to have to be so important? Man, talk about freedom! Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: GUEST,KT Date: 24 Dec 05 - 04:16 AM If I knew then what I know now! But I didnt and now I do and I am too flamin'old to do anything about it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Janie Date: 24 Dec 05 - 05:53 AM Back when I was older I had to be the 'best' at anything I did, or I wouldn't keep on doing it. Janie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 08:31 AM Back when I was older, I took a lot of things for granted that now seem like blessings. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Amos Date: 24 Dec 05 - 08:46 AM KT: Yer never too old to do something about it, especially with a heart like yours! Ahhh, but I was ooooo much older then.... I'm younger than that nooooow.... I think Abraham Lincoln said that... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 08:51 AM Back when I was older, I thought it was about me. Now that I'm younger, I realize it's about us. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Amos Date: 24 Dec 05 - 09:03 AM Back when we were in our youth Justice, Beauty and the Truth Was what we thought that Life was all about. But now we have run our race We can see that Life is based On water coming in, and going out. "The Plumber is the Man", from A Prairie Home Companion, NPR, as sung by Garrison Keeler. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: *daylia* Date: 24 Dec 05 - 09:26 AM Back when I was old and strong it was easy to take my family for granted. But now that I'm becoming more fragile, I see this is not so. My father was taken to the hospital by ambulance Wed morning, with all the symptoms of a stroke. His own doctor is on holidays, cannot be reached. So a different doctor has seen my dad every day. Each one pretty well has to start again from scratch, ordering more tests, delaying diagnosis. They are all very kind, and do their best, but none of them know him, or know his history. He's feeling better today, but still weak. And still no answers. Unless they let him out today -- which doesn't look too likely --- he will be spending Christmas in the hospital. This is a first for the whole family, and I feel so very ... young. And vulnerable. And selfish for saying so too. Thanks for listening, daylia |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 10:03 AM We'll keep you and your family in prayer, daylia. I remember a Christmas long ago where my oldest sister who was a teenager at the time was in a near-fatal accident and was in the hospital for Christmas. I was about 11 then, and because we wanted to have Christmas with her, we opened our gifts at the hospital early in the day on Christmas Eve. I thought was cool... I was the first kid I knew to open his gifts that early. We spent Christmas "Eve" that afternoon at the hospital. When it finally was Christmas Eve, and my father and mother and my other sister and I were home, it his me real hard. It was Christmas Eve, the excitement and joy of opening presents had passed and the night seemed empty. At 11, Christmas revolves around what you get for presents. Looking back now, I see that the gift is being together. So, back when I was older, I thought the best gifts were those that were wrapped and tied with ribbons. Now that I am younger, I realize that the best gifts are around us every day. And that's never clearer than it is when they are missing. Here's wishing that your Father is home for Christmas, and that if he isn't you'll all realize what a gift it is that you are still all together. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: GUEST,Wesley S Date: 24 Dec 05 - 10:08 AM "Here's wishing that your Father is home for Christmas, and that if he isn't you'll all realize what a gift it is that you are still all together." Daylia - What Jerry said goes for me too. My best wishes for your whole family. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Azizi Date: 24 Dec 05 - 10:15 AM daylia, "Here's wishing that your Father is home for Christmas, and that if he isn't you'll all realize what a gift it is that you are still all together." I second that emotion. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Azizi Date: 24 Dec 05 - 10:17 AM Back when I was older, I used to want to be important. Now that I'm even older, I realize that it is important to be wanted. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Amos Date: 24 Dec 05 - 10:51 AM I once thought the best thing would be to Be Interesting. I have learned that to Be Interested is richer, more fun, more rewarding, more helpful and healthier by far. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 24 Dec 05 - 11:25 AM "I think Abraham Lincoln said that..." I'll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours . . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 12:51 PM When I was older, I couldn't get a Senior Discount. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: leftydee Date: 24 Dec 05 - 01:36 PM I'm old enough for the senior discount, but with my senior memory I always forget to ask for it. Life's just like that, ain't it, Jerry? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 24 Dec 05 - 02:21 PM Maybe you could wear a button saying "I'm A Senior, Please give me the Senior Discount"? Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Peace Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:06 PM I have been getting asked if I wanted the discount since I turned thirty-seven. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 Dec 05 - 03:25 PM Back when I was older I thought (as someone above did) that every problem had a solution. Now I know that for every complicated problem there is one, single answer which is clear, simple, easy of execution-----and WRONG! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: gnu Date: 24 Dec 05 - 05:12 PM Well said, Amos. Old German saying... We get too soon old, and too late smart. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:41 AM Back when I was older I could hear better, but I understood less. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:42 AM Back when I was older I could hear better, but I didn't listen as much. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: *daylia* Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:55 AM Back when I was older I heard less because I talked more. Now the world seems so much noisier. Maybe it's cuz I'm getting quieter -- but not half as quiet as I'm gonna be! Jerry, Wesley, Azizi - thank you for your kindness and your prayers. My dad is feeling better! They gave him a day pass yesterday. Having him home for Christmas dinner was the best gift of all! I'm on my way to the hospital to see him now. Thank you so much again, and may everyone here have a peaceful, joyful holiday! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Back When I Was Older From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 26 Dec 05 - 12:00 PM That's wonderful news, daylia. We talked to one of my sisters yesterday... she was really cracking up, telling us about my Mother, who will be 99 in June. Mom has really liked an elderly gentleman in the retirement complext where she lives. She's in Assisted Living now, and her friend Phil came to visit her. Mom was in bed, and Phil brought her a rose which he placed next to her on the bed. Then her got down on his knees and kissed her. Mom jokingly chided him saying that people were starting to talk. Could there be a wedding in the future? Jerry |
