W is for Work

W is for Work.  Raise your hand if you are itching to get back to work.

For every man's work, whether it be 

literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else

is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler

Far and away the best prize that life offers

is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

If a man love the labor of any trade,

apart from any question of success or fame,

the gods have called him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To do what you love and to feel that it matters,

how can anything be more fun.

Katherine Graham

V is for Volunteers

V is for Volunteers.  People are volunteering to help others at this time.  We thank them.

Help others.  There's no time like the present

and no present like the time.

James Durst

Volunteers are paid in six figures: S M I L E S.

Gayla LeMaire

Those who can, do.  Those who can do more, volunteer.

Author Unknown

Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless,

but because they're priceless.

Sherry Anderson

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time. 

they just have the heart.

Elizabeth Andrew

Stay safe,

Thelma

Workshop on Zoom this Tuesday

You're Invited to

a Legacy Letter program

on Zoom

Session 1:  Tuesday, April 28 at 1:00

Session 2:  Tuesday, May 5 at 1:00

sponsored by

YMCA Houston

Leave a legacy for your children and theirs

Write a letter to share

your life experience, values, wisdom and love

This workshop will begin with exercises to get you started.

To register
Go to www.ymcahouston.org 
Click on the blue rectangle under Stay Connected,
scroll down to Tuesday, April 28 and find the workshop
Writing Your Life
Click on Description
A little square will come up with a link to register.
You don't have to be a member of the Y.  
List Weekley Family Y as your branch.
You don't have to be in Houston.

Hope to see you Tuesday.

U is for Understanding

U is for Understanding.  We need to be understanding of others and of ourselves in this stressful time.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find

in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman:

straightway all their words and actions lie in light before us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We can sometimes love what we do not understand,

but it is impossible completely to understand

what we do not love.

Anna Jameson

In the sick room, ten cents worth of human understanding

equals ten dollars worth of medical science.

Martin H. Fischer

How can you expect a man who's warm

to understand one who's cold?

Alexander Solzhentsyn

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T is for Television

T is for Television.  How much time do you spend watching television these days?  A lot, I imagine.

It is our latest medium--we call it a medium because nothing's well done.

Ace Goodman

It is a medium of entertainment which permits

millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time

and still remain lonesome.

T.S. Elliot

Television is a medium which permits you

to be entertained in your living room

by people you wouldn't have in your home.

David Frost

S is for Solitude

S is for Solitude.  We probably have more than we want now.

I love people.  I love my family, my children...
but inside myself is a place where I live all alone
and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl Buck

Solitude is as needful to the imagination

as society is wholesome for the character

James Russell Lowell

Our language has widely sensed these two sides of man's being alone.
It has created the word "loneliness" to express 
the pain of being alone.
And it has created the word "solitude" 
to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

R is for Reading

R is for Reading.  Books have always been my pleasure, my education, my escape...and now more than ever.  I remember the poster on the wall of my elementary school library:

Books are keys to lands of pleasure.

Books are gates to wisdom's treasure.

Books are paths that upward lead.

Books are friends.  Come, let us read.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Joseph Addison

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert

but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

Clifton Fadiman

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

I don't think we should read for instruction

but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Henry Miller

Happy reading, 

Thelma