Kenneth Davis

TIME FOR ANOTHER 
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Joycelyn Lacy (Sommerville)

Kenneth Davis

    T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N   
TODAY'S WORDS - POSITIVE ATTITUDE 

     The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway. We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy. I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way. Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin. That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything. My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.
     I graduated high school, and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job. In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality. I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. You try not to hide from the world because you want to still participate and still be inspired by what's around you. I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. 

~Amy Adams~

Kenneth Davis

WELCOME TO 
SMOOTH
 CONTEMPORARY JAZZ 

     I admit, music is my first love.  We played, jazz, blues, dixie, and it all came from the church. When I went to church, I would see the sisters and brothers doing the same beat. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music. Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be at home with your family.

~Scatman Crothers~

Kenneth Davis

   T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N    
TODAY'S WORDS - SOLVE PROBLEMS

     Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.
     You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it? Everybody is given a Dream... you may have to work for it however. Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life. Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned. To learn anything, you must put aside the safety of your ignorance. There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
     Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences. If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
     If you want to meet someone who can fix any situation you don't like, who can bring you happiness in spite of what other people say or believe, look in a mirror, then say this magic word: 'Hello.' I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life - absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that. You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved. Every problem has a gift for you in its hands. You wait a lifetime to meet someone who understands you, accepts you as you are. At the end, you find that someone, all along, has been you. Don't fear change. It's always for the best.

~Richard Bach~

Estella Wright (Mayhue-Greer)

Kenneth Davis

    SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns

     December 29, 2024: Refuse to allow your exasperation to affect those around you. You must quiet your soul and find a place of peace where you can actually evaluate where you are and what you need to do. Going in circles is not the way to progress. Be still and know that I will show you the way, says the Lord. Psalm 25:4-5 Show me Your ways, O Lord; teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; on You I wait all day.

  T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N  
TODAYS WORDS - GOING IN CIRCLES

     Your soul is the whole world. The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself. Every experience has its element of magic. I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life. Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. Only within yourself exists that other reality for which you long.
     Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do. The only reality is the one we have inside us. What makes most people’s lives so artificial and unworthy is that they falsely regard outside images as reality, and they never allow their own inner world to speak. Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.
     We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

~Hermann Hesse~

Estella Wright (Mayhue-Greer)

God be in my head, and all my understanding;

God be in my eyes, and in my looking;

God be in my mouth, and in my speaking;

God be in my heart; and in my thinking.

                                     --Sarum Primer

Kenneth Davis

     T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N     
TODAY'S WORDS - IN A CRISIS

     You can do anything, but not everything. Procrastination is not about doing and feeling crappy. You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind. The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself. Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you and often does. Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined. Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started. What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
     Most often, the reason something is "on your mind" is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcomes is; you haven't decided what the very next physical action step is; and/or you haven't put reminders of the outcome and the action required in a system you trust. That's why it's on your mind. You can't manage time; you actually only manage what you do during time. So, the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do. It's easier to change directions if you are in motion. If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
     Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact. Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax. Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you. People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction. Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things. If we didn't have any stress, we'd never grow, and you'd probably wouldn't test your mettle and you'd probably wouldn't come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge. Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance. If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti. You don't manage priorities, you have them. Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. 

~David Allen~

Kenneth Davis

IT'S TIME FOR 
JUST JOKING MONDAYS

 Take two jokes and call me in the morning!

     A doctor tells his wife, “You’re a terrible cook, you spend too much money, and you’re a lousy lover!” Two weeks later, he comes home to find her making out with his partner. “What’s going on here?!” he demands. “Just getting a second opinion,” she replies.
 —Deborah Axelrod, MD, New York University Perlmutter Cancer Center

She can see clearly now, the urge is gone.

     Mr. Harper sued a hospital, saying that after his wife had surgery there, she lost all interest in sex. A hospital spokesperson replied, “Mrs. Harper was admitted for cataract surgery. All we did was correct her eyesight.” 
—Amar Safdar, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center

A nurse’s most awkward moment.

     After discussing a patient, the doctor ended his conversation by telling me, “I love you.” Following an awkward pause, he said, “I’m sorry, you were telling me what to do, so it made me think I was speaking with my wife.” 
—Source: Scrubs magazine

Joycelyn Lacy (Sommerville)

Kenneth Davis

SMALL STRAWS IN A SOFT WIND by Marsha Burns

     December 31, 2024: This is a time when it will be vital to exhibit the fruit of the Spirit. Rise about your carnal nature and give those around you a break from scrutiny and judgment, whether it is expressed outwardly or just in your thoughts. Either way, it is a curse. Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

  T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAY'S WORDS - FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT

     A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you. There is nothing as tragic as being alive and not enjoying life... Life should be celebrated! Positive minds produce positive lives. Negative minds produce negative lives. Positive thoughts are always full of faith and hope. Negative thoughts are always full of fear and doubt. No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out. If you want to get over a problem, stop talking about it. Your mind affects your mouth, and your mouth affects your mind. It's difficult to stop talking about a situation until you stop thinking about it.
     Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for. Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person. Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence, and they will always be glad to see you coming. Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely, we become better people. Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule but always work your schedule around Him.
     In the midst of your battles, never forget that God loves you and He has a plan for you. Stop being tormented by everyone else's reaction to you. Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround. You have the power to make the world a better place by being kind to someone today. Stop focusing on what's wrong with everyone else and start focusing on how blessed you are. Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up.
     You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God. You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be. If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else. Don't be too concerned about what others think of you. It's what you think about yourself that matters! Each time we cooperate with God; we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.
     God is the Source of real love, joy, peace, wisdom and everything else we all need to be the people He has created us to be. If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word. God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned. Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over. Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart. We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them. People can't see what's in your heart - they can only see what you do. Make sure you are doing what is important to God-not just what is important to everyone else you know.

~Joyce Meyer~

Kenneth Davis

BIRTH  ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
 TO 
CARL   O'NEAL

     In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. 

~Robert Hall~

Joycelyn Lacy (Sommerville)

Kenneth Davis

   T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N
TODAY'S WORD - CREATIVITY

     Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity. You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper. Thinking is the ultimate human resource. Yet we can never be satisfied with our most important skill. No matter how good we become, we should always want to be better. Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven. Our existing thinking habits are excellent, just as the rear wheels of a motor car are excellent, but not enough. Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value. We may need to solve problems not by removing the cause but by designing the way forward even if the cause remains in place. If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
     Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured. We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So, we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving. Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad. Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.
     We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting. Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.

~Edward de Bono~

Kenneth Davis

WELLNESS WEDNESDAY

Want To Live 10 Years Longer? 

Add These 3 Foods to Your Diet, New Study Says

By Meaghan Cameron, MS

Updated on Sep. 28, 2024

https://www.thehealthy.com/ 

     Medical researchers pinpointed longevity trends thanks to dietary patterns across Europe, Asia and the United States. Longevity is a popular topic, thanks in part to the Blue Zones research on the best ways to live longer. It’s an idea so fascinating, and so inspiring, partly because there’s a growing awareness in our culture that extending your lifespan can be achieved through some of the simplest, and most pleasurable, things you do. One of those is eating. A new study analyzed data on diets in seven countries after a team of doctors predicted that they’d observe an increase in life expectancy among populations that had transitioned “from typical national dietary patterns to longevity-optimizing dietary changes, more feasible dietary modifications, and optimized vegan dietary changes.”

     Published in the April 29, 2024, issue of the peer-reviewed American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the study was led by public health and medical researchers who drew upon data from the Global Burden of Diseases and Injuries study, which is an ongoing initiative that monitors dietary habits and health metrics across multiple nations. The research combined statistics from China, France, Germany, Iran, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Adjusting for height, weight, and physical activity level, the researchers identified some broad-sweeping trends:

⦁ Adopting a vegan diet could add five to seven years to one’s life.

⦁ Even modest dietary adjustments, particularly the inclusion of whole grains and legumes while curbing sugary beverages, could contribute up to four additional years of life.

⦁ Overall, they say the research suggests the public would likely boost their health and potential for future health by adding these three foods: legumes, whole grains and nuts.

⦁ Skipping processed meat was also associated with a longer life.

     The United States emerged with the greatest opportunity to increase longevity, due to Americans’ widespread consumption of foods like processed meat and added sugars, combined with low intake of longevity-promoting foods like whole grains, nuts, legumes, and fish. To our collective credit, Americans ate a decent amount of vegetables and consumed enough fruit, but this didn’t fully offset the bad choices in other parts of the American diet. The study also suggested that men stand to benefit from dietary modifications more than women, likely because across countries it was observed women already follow healthier diets.

     This is for information purpose only and should not be considered as a substitute for medical expertise. These are opinions from an external panel of individual doctors. Please seek professional help regarding any health conditions or concerns.

Kenneth Davis

         T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N    
TODAY'S WORDS - REORIENT YOURSELF

     Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of value is the core experience of powerlessness. Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly. You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them. Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question, 'How do you choose to learn love?', 'How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment-through doubt and fear, or through wisdom?' Every action, thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect In this most profound way, we are held responsible for every action, thought, and feeling, which is to say, for our every intention.
     The circumstances of your life are neither good nor bad. They are appropriate to the needs of your soul. They may or may not be what your personality desires. Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it. Your destination is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. When you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Be aware of emotional toxins as well as physical toxins. Be aware of what you are thinking. Clear yourself at the end of every day. Try not to go to bed angry or distressed or anxious or jealous or envious. There would be no accumulation of strength inside if the choices that you make did not require discipline and intention.
     When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice. As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself. It's a reorientation that occurs toward yourself as more than a mind and a body; it's a reorientation that occurs toward others; toward your life as meaningful, rather than predetermined. It's a reorientation that occurs toward the universe as alive, wise and compassionate, instead of inert (which means dead) and random. When someone fears losing your affection, he or she will strive to keep it. Perhaps you have strived to keep someone's affection, too. Fear of loss is not love. Until you can say what is most difficult for you to say, you cannot speak from your heart, live unafraid, create health, or receive support from others. He who sees his soul is more than his life, does not confuse the two. Humble spirits are free to love and to be who they are. They have no artificial standards to live up to.

~Gary Zukav~

Kenneth Davis

BIRTH  ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS
 TO
 PATRICIA  KENT  SWIFT

     Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. 

~Edith Wharton~

Kenneth Davis

 TIME FOR ANOTHER 
THROWBACK
 THURSDAY

Joycelyn Lacy (Sommerville)

Kenneth Davis

     T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N     
TODAY'S WORDS - THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF

    You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline. Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Who you become is infinitely more important than what you do, or what you have. The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage. Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves. The way we see the world determines the way we live our lives. Let your life be guided by greatness. Thought determines action. Do not let your whole life be a reaction to the things that happen around you each day. Let your life be an action.
     The world is full of men and women who work too much, sleep too little, hardly ever exercise, eat poorly, and are always struggling or failing to find adequate time with their families. We are in a perpetual hurry-constantly rushing from one activity to another, with little understanding of where all this activity is leading us. . . . The world has gone and got itself in an awful rush, to whose benefit I do not know. We are too busy for our own good. We need to slow down. Our lifestyles are destroying us. The worst part is, we are rushing east in search of a sunset. It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.
     Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation. It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings. Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you. The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self-God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.

~Matthew Kelly~

Kenneth Davis

WELCOME TO 
SMOOTH
 CONTEMPORARY JAZZ 

     I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie. I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded. 
 
~Molly Ringwald~

Kenneth Davis

     T H O U G H T   F O R   C O N S I D E R A T I O N     
TODAY'S WORD - PURPOSELY

     'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it. I like being absurd. Being silly. I like to see people laugh who are normally serious. Live your life by doing activities that are beneficial. Listening is more important than talking. Just hit your mark and believe what you say. Just listen to people and react to what they are saying. There's always going to be someone out there... who doesn't believe in you or who thinks your head is too big or you're not smart enough. But those are the people you need to ignore, and those are the times you need to just keep doing what you love doing.
     I just feel like people like a little break. Especially at 12:37 at night, you go, like, 'I'm just tired of the snarky right now. I just want to lie down and have somebody make me laugh for an hour. Entertain me, and then I'm going to sleep with a smile on my face.' That's my job; that's what I do. Everyone looks so much better when they smile. I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep. Honestly, I just want to keep people awake. Or at least give you one joke to go to bed with. I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'
     The 'Tonight Show' didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire. I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?' I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic. I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

~Jimmy Fallon~

Kenneth Davis

BIRTH ANNIVERSARY GREETINGS

 TO  

ELIZABETH MARZETTE PACE

     When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

~William Arthur Ward~

Joycelyn Lacy (Sommerville)