09Aug11

A well known, but shy, actor, dropped into a Broadway restaurant very early the other morning.
He sat at a table and waited--- and waited. Three waiters, at a table in the rear were earnestly playing pinochle. Finally, after long minutes, the proprietor sauntered through and caught the situation at a glance.
“That’s how it is!” he roared. “I got three waiters and they can’t even wait on one lousy customer!”


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1962, Marilyn Monroe dies.

1936, Jesse Owens wins fourth gold medal at Summer Olympics in Berlin.

1945, The United States drop the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

1957, Melanie Griffith is born.

1963, Whitney Houston is born.

1969, Sharon Tate actress, killed by Charles Manson's gang

1974, Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th president.

1988, Alan Napier (Alfred the Butler on Batman), dies at 85

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Tuesday and it’s gonna be another scorcher outside. Another 100 degree plus day. Who can change the weather nowadays??

IT WAS SO HOT, the cows were giving evaporated milk.

Here is another Vernon Howard story:

Edward Arlington Robinson sums up the desperate predicament of man in his classic poem, Richard Cory.
Everyone in town admired Richard Cory’s princely manners. They envied his apparently exalted station in life. He seemed the very ideal of the successful individual. But it was all a stage performance. No one knew it better than Richard Cory. In his despair, he finally fled the stage in the only way he knew, in self-destruction.
Genuinely happy people are much rarer than one supposes. People wear a variety of masks: smiling masks, wise-appearing ones, excited ones, masks of worldly success, all in a frantic attempt to convince themselves and others that the act is real. But, sooner or later, the play must come to its end, leaving the actor alone and afraid on his little stage.
What does every man want? He only senses what he wants. He wants to be free. From what? From his heartache and suffering, from his compulsive desires, from his fear of what other people can do to him, from secret shames and guilts carried over from past folly.
He wants self-liberty. But he doesn’t know what it is, or where to find it. Still, he anxiously seeks, and almost always in the wrong places. In despair over finding the right needle in the haystack, he doesn’t even see he is searching in the wrong haystack.
He hopefully comforts himself, “Well, tomorrow will be different.” But it won’t. And he knows he will look back and find himself in the same old despair. The only change will be in a few exterior surroundings. But it’s still the same old haunted house.
The famous prisoners-in-the-cave allegory of Socrates, as told by Plato, explains man’s condition: A number of men are chained in a dark cavern. A fire blazes around them, producing fearful shadows. Falsely assuming that the shadows are real, they cringe in terror and hostility.
But one prisoner gets tired of it all. Taking courage, he decides to risk all in an attempt to escape. Fighting his way through the darkness, he emerges into the sunlight of the real world. He finds himself a free man.
And what happens if he goes back to tell others of his wonderful discovery? What if he explains that their agonies result from their illusions, that an entirely new world exists on the outside? Will they welcome his message? They will not. What!-and give up their smug assumptions that they already know what is real? And disturb their ego-centered ways? No! They will scorn and resent him, call him a deluded fool-and remain in their secret despair.


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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

When practicing law in Illinois, Lincoln wrote upon a subscription
paper passed to him in behalf of the worn-out trouser-seat of
his opponent:
"I refuse to subscribe to the end in view."



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