Posted in family, life, love, stories on February 26, 2008 | No Comments »
A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them.
Then she said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.”
“Is the man of the house home?”, they asked.
“No,” [...]
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A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag’s side door!
He [...]
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There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper to hammer a nail in the back fence.
The first day the boy had driven thirty-seven nails into the fence. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was [...]
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A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He climbed to the tree top, ate the apples, took a nap under the shadow. He loved the tree and the tree loved to play with him.
Time went by. The little boy had grown [...]
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A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and a four-year old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his step faltered. The family ate together nightly at the dinner table. But the elderly grandfather’s shaky hands and failing sight made eating rather difficult. Peas rolled off his [...]
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The carpenter I hired to help me restore an old farm house had just finished a rough first day on the job. A flat tire had caused him to miss an hour of work, his electric saw quit, and now his ancient pick-up truck refused to start.
As I drove him home, he sat in stony [...]
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Posted in heartbreak, life, love, stories, women on November 22, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A friend asked a gentleman how it is that he never married ?
Replied the gentleman, “Well, I guess I just never met the right woman … I guess I’ve been looking for the perfect girl.”
“Oh, come on now,” said the friend, “Surely you have met at least one girl that you wanted to marry.”
“Yes, there [...]
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“A young widower, who loved his five year old son very much, was away on business when bandits came who burned down the whole village and took his son away. When the man returned, he saw the ruins and panicked. The took the burnt corpse of an infant to be his son and cried uncontrollably. [...]
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Posted in family, letters, life, love, stories on October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
French philosopher Andre Gorz wrote his terminally ill wife a moving letter before their joint suicide last month. This love letter that he wrote to her has turned into a surprise bestseller. The following is an excerpt from the letter:
“You will soon be 82. You have shrunk six centimetres and you weigh just 45 kilos [...]
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Posted in humor, life, love, stories on October 16, 2007 | 5 Comments »
A girl quickly punches a number into her phone and waits until she hears the other line pick up.
“Becky, I don’t know what to do, I really don’t. I love him so much and I don’t think he thinks of me that way. I mean, whenever I see him or think of him, I can’t [...]
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A man fell into a pit and couldn’t get himself out.
A subjective person came along and said, “I feel for you down there.”
An objective person came along and said, “It’s logical that someone would fall down there.”
A Christian Scientist came along and said, “You only think you’re in the pit.”
A Pharisee said, “Only bad people [...]
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I once participated in a small workshop on public speaking. Each of us was presented with the goal of deeply connecting with all eight attendees. We were to speak from the heart on a specific topic, and the audience was to connect back with the speaker. And while the workshop was indeed interesting, what really [...]
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Posted in heartbreak, love, poems, stories, women on September 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I once knew a man. His eyes stared into my soul and the weakness sank into my body as if I’d lost all control. We’d lay there and watch the moon as he’d caress me with his warm fingertips and everything I’d ever known was forgotten. We talked about nothing…yet it meant so much. And [...]
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After 21 years of marriage, I discovered a new way of keeping alive the spark of love. A little while ago I had started to go out with another woman. It was really my wife’s idea.
“I know that you love her,” she said one day, taking me by surprise.
“But I love YOU,” I protested.
“I know, [...]
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ART OF LETTING GO
It’s definitely hard letting go of someone you love so much, but you have to LEARN. Please ask yourself. Did your ex boyfriend ever try to contact you? While you’re wondering about him, is he wondering about you? While you’re feeling depressed and confused, is he feeling the same way? Or [...]
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By the time the Lord made mothers, He was into the sixth day working overtime. An Angel appeared and said “Why are you spending so much time on this one?”
And the Lord answered and said, “Have you read the spec sheet on her? She has to be completely washable, but not [...]
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