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If you find that, you would like to forget the events of the past year or decade, all you may need is a shredder. On the last Monday of 2009, organizers invited New York residents seeking a fresh start in 2010 to come to Times Square and shred their bad memories of the old year. The Times Square Alliance…

An actuary is someone who always drives by looking in the rear-view mirror. Source: Magazine Name, January 1, 2006

"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O Lord, my strength and my redeemer." "Down By The Riverside" (Genesis 1:1-5, Mark 1:4-11) INTRODUCTION: In one of my favorite commentaries, the comic strip "Peanuts", Linus says to Charlie Brown: "I guess it's wrong always…

SPEECH FAST Saturday I did something that many people feel is impossible for me-I didn't talk. Why? With the slip of a surgeon's scalpel, several years ago, I lost the ability to speak--a fairly important skill to a preacher. My world crashed in around me. As weeks became months, I drifted into depression…

Feeling Old??? — 2003 ..... ..... Just in case you weren't feeling too old today, this will certainly change things. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a list to try to give the faculty a sense of the mind set of this year's incoming freshmen. ..... Here's this year's list:…

Old man Woodruff loved golf, but his age was making it increasingly difficult for him to play. He complained to the clubhouse man about his eyesight. “I can’t play with my glasses on because they keep falling off,” he said. “And I’m too nearsighted to play without them.” “Why don’t you play with Hughes?”…

Speaking of Senior Moments: WHERE IS MY SUNDAY PAPER? The irate customer calling the newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her Sunday edition was. Ma'am, said the newspaper employee, today is Saturday. The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday. There was quite a long…

Speaking of Senior Moments: WHERE Is My SUNDAY Paper? the irate customer calling the newspaper office loudly demanded, wanting to know where her Sunday edition was. Ma'am, said the newspaper employee, today is Saturday. The Sunday paper is not delivered until tomorrow, on Sunday. There was quite a long…

Mom was at home when the kids got home from school; When nobody owned a purebred dog; When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter a huge bonus; When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny; When all of your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done and wore…

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. From the television show The Wonder Years A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Edward de Bono Every man's memory is his private literature. Aldous Huxley…

\\ Remembering the past is critical to our survival and to our identity as persons and as a people. This was brought home to me again while reading the book Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. He tells the story of the first Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth, the community they developed and the Indian wars…

Eleven Requests from People with Alzheimer’s Please… 1. Be patient with me. My brain disease is beyond my control. 2. Accept me the way I am. I still have something to offer you. 3. Talk with and listen to me. I can’t always answer but I do understand the tone of your voice and your expression of interest.…

A Sunday school teacher decided to have her young class memorize one of the most quoted passages in the Bible: Psalm 23. She gave the youngsters a month to learn the chapter. Little Rick was excited about the task, but he just couldn't remember the Psalm. After much practice, he could barely get past…