Messages in a Cyber Bottle
From: Dale Newton
To: marie brittain
Funny stuff. How are you doing? I got your text late last night about Ashley snapping... Are you okay?
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From: marie brittain
To: Dale Newton
She calmed down, ( I sent you a text earlier...) I definitely need to get myself in a more positive position so I am not at her mercy.
Sorry I missed out on the truffles. Damn it... FFFFF....
Some of the comments on the blog make me sad. I used to be your new possibility and fresh start. You wrote me many notes with content similar to the Robert Browning poem. We were supposed to grow old together and make the last part of our lives the best part. Remember the Don Henley song "On My Wedding Day" ? It played before I walked down the isle to you and made you cry. Part of the lyrics were: What makes us different from all the rest? Maybe nothing, maybe nothing at all but I pray we are the lucky ones, I pray we never fall. Maybe nothing indeed...
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glad she calmed down. take care. it's always good to hear from you.
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That's it? No comment on what I wrote to you? Why are Brad, Gretchen and Steffs comments so worthy of a reply and mine are not?
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I'm at work right now. I write longer answers when I'm at home.
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Marie,
I would have loved to have grown old with you. I would have loved to be with you and have your company and companionship. I miss you every day. But you and I fell, and fell repeatedly, and so far we haven't made it back to our feet.
If I could be with you I would buy you truffles every day. I've filled the world wide web with my longing and desire for you. You're still not convinced, and we are still apart. I grieve for you and miss you. I wish things were different, with all of my heart.
Dale
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From: marie brittain
To: Dale Newton
Thank you...
Have you met, or are you interested or seeing someone else?
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From: Dale Newton
To: marie brittain
no, no and no.
Have you?
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(end of messages)
About 11:30 I called Marie and asked her. T-mobile dropped the call.
This is the Way the Transformation Begins
"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw, Robert F. Kennedy
This is the way the transformation begins.
It begins in me.
It begins now.
It begins with small incremental changes and shifts in attitude
it begins with positive action
failing forward
and suddenly I start looking at the world and my place in it in a new way. I speak differently and dress differently and project a different energy, and the world opens up like a glorious pink azalea bush, eight feet tall and blooming like mad.
Good morning!
An engineer builds a bridge and every bolt and weld has to be exactly right; every measure has to be perfect, or the bridge collapses or fails to take its place. Fantastically detailed blueprints have to be laid out. Impact statements have to be filed, sediment has to be studied, years of effort, months of planning, and a man-made marvel rises in the sky. Park somewhere and take a good look at a bridge, and think of all the skill and knowledge and hard honest work it took to create it. Consider how a few thousand years ago we were living in caves.
It is not so with a dream. Some people are remarkable dreamers and dreams spring whole from them, or they can leap up from bed and pages of creative genius flow out of their pen, intricate and perfect. Most of us though are baby dreamers, new at it and tentative to the trust the power of what we wish for.
Start the dream! Whether you want to go to nursing school or college or learn to play the guitar, take a first step, now, even in the wrong direction. Don't wait for the blueprint to come to you, the environmental impact statement, the permits and the 200-page budget and legislative dream approval. Rough it out, sketch it on a napkin, tell a friend, and take action. Your dream begins the moment you step out in first moment of believing, and the result can touch a thousand souls. Listen to Jim Valvano: never give up, never surrender. Believe in the audacity of action and your fantastic potential for change and new opportunity.
Genuine happiness and success start with an attitude of abundanceMake it a daily practice to begin your day with five minutes of thankfulness. You can even do it in your car on the way to work. Do it in your own way, whether it's thoughtful reflection or a prayer or singing out loud, but focus on your rich, amazing, abundant life.
Feeling grumpy or resentful or worried instead of thankful? Change direction! Consider the incredible gifts you have--mind, body, spirit, senses, your family, your friends, your clothes, your car, and the breakfast you enjoyed this morning. By the standards of 99% of the world, Americans are incredibly, amazingly rich. You truly have no idea how richly blessed you are until you start thinking about it. Even the heart that beats within you and the lungs that breathe your air are an intricate and amazing miracle.
Some of my favorite movies are ones that feature a once-defeated character waking up to an absolutely new day: "It's A Wonderful Life," the various versions of Dicken's "Christmas Carol" and "Groundhog Day." How exhilarating it is for George Bailey to wake up and realize his life isn't over, it's just beginning, and that today truly is a brand new day.
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