Down the road.
There are a lot of things down the road.
You just never really know what you will find, once you start heading in one direction or another.
It could be a fence, with a long line of pine trees beyond. And when those trees drop their needles…. well… some fall to the ground. Others, get caught, on the cross lines of the fence. Some remain on the branches, intact, on the tree.
Which of them fall to the ground, and which catch the fence? It could be how the wind was blowing at the moment. OR perhaps, the pine needles decide for themselves, where they will stay, or where they will go.
But there they are.
In their own little place.
Just.
Down the road.
“Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
“Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future.” – Arnold H. Glasow
I love the quote by Arnold H. Glasow (who is he anyway?) but it is a daunting task sometime…..to be happy. Although, mostly I am.
Happiness is…. WHAT? If I could figure that one out…. LOL.
AND….
Arnold Henry Glasow was born in Fond-du-lac, Wisconsin, USA, in 1905, and died in Freeport, Illinois in 1998 age 93. He graduated from Ripon College, and started his own business when he moved to Freeport just after the Great Depression. His business was a humour magazine that he marketed to firms nationally, which firms would turn into their own “House Organ” to send to their own customers. He ran this business for over sixty years but didn’t publish his first book until aged 92. The book was titled “Glasow’s Gloombusters”, one of the many titles he put to his work during his career. He was cited frequently in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Chicago Tribune and many other major publications. He was a regular contributor to the humour sections of Reader’s Digest. Sixty years of productive work. Many accolades. A real American thinker, self-effacing and generous of spirit, he shunned the national spotlight.