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Things Worth Remembering

The three habits that lead to success are: Patience, Application, and Vision.

Take care: The person who will tell others' faults to you - will tell yours to others.

It is always better to be underestimated.

There are three things that are better than riches: Health, Freedom, and Honor.

Think swiftly, speak softly, act wisely.

"The world is neither Scottish, English, nor Irish, neither French, Dutch, nor Chinese, but human, and each nation is only the partial development of a universal humanity." - James Grant on founding the National Association for the Vindication of Scottish Rights, 1862

All from: The Book of Celtic Wisdom

I don’t care what universe you’re from, that’s got to hurt.

[a pod racer crashes and explodes into a billion pieces] 
“I don’t care what universe you’re from, that’s got to hurt.” – Fode, Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace

 

Take one ice skating teenager, add in a bit of speed, introduce a metal railing and you’ve got yourself one seriously jammed thumb. Although it happened last Wednesday, writing is still a no-go since it hurts too much to bend his thumb to create a tri-pod grip. Thankfully, Padawan’s thumb is no longer shaped like a hotdog, but the black, blue and yellow coloring around the knuckles is a dead give-a-way that something is still not right in there. We shifted lessons around a bit to accommodate and, hopefully, he’ll be back to normal soon.

May the Force be with us all, Share!

    5 comments to I don’t care what universe you’re from, that’s got to hurt.

    • Ouch! That sounds painful, but I hope you had fun ice skating anyway. I guess this is a time for narration and dictation. Do you have any speech to text software? I’m just throwing out ideas.

    • topsytechie

      When my son broke his right arm last year, homeschool got very interesting. I was chief scribe and bottle washer for three whole months. No one was happier for that kid to heal than mom!!! Hope he feels better soon!

    • Meg

      Poor kid. I hope it continues to improve.

    • hjdong

      Yikes! A couple of years ago I had a teenaged babysitter who ended up with stitches after ice skating. I considered grounding her after that but apparently I didn’t have that power.

    • therealmotherlode

      Hey- he’d look great next to my hubby who made a fingernail sandwich out of one of his fingers. A concrete block and a HEAVY board got him. It looks really, REALLY nasty.