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Kindness is
Everything
You
looK
to bE
each daY
If there's a key of success, it's not wealth or poverty, there are rich and poor good people as well as rich and poor jerks.
It's not status or possessions or job title, you can have or not have these things and still be someone that other people like and want to be with, or be someone others want to avoid.
How you do what you do is as important to this kind of success as anything else. Doing things for people while keeping a bad attitude will only leave them feeling as if they were a bother.
The best success is in your control of your thoughts and actions, letting other people know just how important and special they truly are.
Kindness is the best key to success of the kind that keeps you alive in people's hearts even long after you are gone.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Key.
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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!
This red fence and gate are impressive.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
We're not at all impressed,
In fact, we're mad as we can be!
For every game one of us wins,
That hussy, she wins three!
She flirts with the number calling man
And he's in love with her, hat to boots.
We're absolutely certain that
Those two are in cahoots!
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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful that vacation is coming up, it can't be soon enough. Getting ready to leave wears me out!
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Today is:
Accession Day -- Jordan (King Abdullah's accession to the throne in 1999)
Community Day -- LO, MU, Spain
Donald Duck Day -- his screen debut was today in 1934
La Rioja Day -- La Rioja, Spain
Meezer's Colors Day -- celebrating the many colors of "meezer" (Siamese) cats
National Heroes Day -- Uganda
National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
Profess Your Love Day -- promoted by ecard companies which think you need to say "I love you" more often
Purple People Eater Day -- Sheb Wooley's hit reached #1 this date in 1958
Remembrance for Sigurd the Dragonslayer -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan (in some traditions called Siegfried)
Sjalvstyrelsedagen -- Aland Islands (Self-Governing Day)
St. Columbia of Iona's -- Celtic Christian, today is one of the luckiest days of the year to superstitious Highland Scots, especially propitious if it's a Thursday (Apostle to the Picts; Patron of bookbinders, poets; Ireland; Scotland; Pemboke, Ontario, Canada; against floods)
St. Ephraem's Day (creator of hymns; Patron of spiritual directors, spiritual leaders; Syria)
World APS Day -- spreading awareness of Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Anniversaries Today:
Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito marries Masako Owada, 1993
Nero marries Claudia Octavia, 53
Birthdays Today:
Natalie Portman, 1981
Johnny Depp, 1963
Michael J. Fox, 1961
Dick Vitale, 1940
Jackie Mason, 1928
Les Paul, 1915
Robert Cummings, 1910
Cole Porter, 1891
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Congo(Film), 1995
What's Love Got To Do With It(Film), 1993
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier(Film), 1989
Today in History:
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, 68
Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse, 721
Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River, 1534
The Harvard Corporation is established as the first corporation in the Americas, 1650
James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia, 1732
The Congress of Vienna, forerunner of the League of Nations and the UN, ends with much of Europe's borders redrawn and settled, Switzerland's neutrality confirmed, and free navigation guaranteed on many rivers, 1815
Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts, 1856
Alexandra Palace in London burns down after being open for only 16 days, 1873
China agrees to lease Hong Kong to Britain for 99 years, 1898
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States, 1909
Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, 1958
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria, 1967
Secretariat wins the Triple Crown, 1973
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) opens its priesthood to black males after 148 years, 1978
The British lease of Hong Kong expires, 1997
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty, 1999
In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road, 2011
In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road, 2011
The World Health Organization suggests women delay pregnancy in areas where the Zika virus is very active, 2016
In the largest ever protest in the city of Hong Kong, over one million people gather to take a stand against new laws regarding extradition to mainland China, 2019
General Charles Q. Brown becomes the first African American to lead a US Armed Forces branch when the US Senate confirms him as the Air Force Chief of Staff, 2020