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| AuthorsAdd J. Grisham to my favourite author list.
I've read most of the books by Dick Francis, all by Erle Emerson, quite a few by Earl Stanley Gardner, and a # of books written by Agatha Christie and Lisa Gardner.
Now, i'll start reading Grisham's novels. All of them.
It'll take me a while, but i've got a lot of free time until September, '08.
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| Bucking the trendSmall Forwards are rarely given the MVP Finals trophy.
After LeBron came to the scene in '03, i thought that he'd be the first SF to get the trophy, but Paul Pierce (The Truth!) beat him to it.
The last time a SF was given the trophy was exactly 20 years ago when James Worthy won it.
I wonder who'll hold the trophy next year?
Good win by the Celtics; and i've a feeling that next year they won't get past both Cavaliers *and* the Pistons next year, unless they get a favourable match-up.
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| Rajon's injury - Blessing in disguiseRajon and Kendrick's injury were vital for Boston's win in game # 4.
Had they not been injured, Coach Rivers would've stuck to his original theory of playing Rondo (who can't shoot) and Perkins (who clogs up the lane).
Instead, he went with Posey and House to spread-up the floor.
The better team deserved to win, and that was Boston Celtics.
With that being said, when Lakers next loose (probably game # 6), Kobe will not be a very happy camper. He'd work ultra-hard in the off-season and with Andrew Bynum back, the Lakers would be the favourite to win it all next year.
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| Happy Mother's Day!I got this in an e-mail yesterday, and I'd like to share it with you all.
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MOMS
For those lucky to still be blessed with your Mom, this is beautiful.
For those who aren't, this is even more beautiful.
For those who are moms, you'll love this.
The young mother set her foot on the path of life. "Is this the long way?" she asked. And the guide said: "Ye
s and the way is hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning."
But
the young mother was happy, and she would not believe that anything
could be better than these years. So she played with her children, and
gathered flowers for them along the way, and bathed them in the clear
streams; and the sun shone on them and the young Mother cried, "Nothing
will ever be lovelier than this."
Then
the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark, and the children
shook with fear and cold, and the mother drew them close and covered
them with her mantle, and the children said, "Mother, we are not
afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come." And the morning came,
and there was a hill ahead, and the children climbed and grew weary, and the mother was weary.
But
at all times she said to the children, "A little patience and we are
there." So the children climbed, and when they reached the top they
said, "Mother, we would not have done it without you." And the mother,
when she lay down at night looked up at the stars and said, "This is a
better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude in the
face of hardness. Yesterday I gave them courage. Today, I have given
them strength."
And
the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of
war and hate and evil, and the children groped and stumbled, and the
mother said: "Look up. Lift your eyes to the light." And the children
looked and saw above the clouds an eve r lasting glory, and it guided
them beyond the darkness. And that night the Mother said, "This is the
best day of all, for I have shown my children God."
And
the days went on, and the weeks and the months and the years, and the
mother grew old and she was little and bent. But her children were
tall and strong, and walked with courage. And when the way was rough,
they lifted her, for she was as light as a feather; and at last they
came to a hill, and beyond they could see a shining road and golden
gates flung wide. And mother said: "I have reached the end of my
journey. And now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my
children can walk alone, and their children after them." And the
children said, "You will always walk with us, Mother, even when you
have gone through the gates." And they stood and watched her as she
went on alone, and the gates c losed after her.
And
they said: "We cannot see her, but she is with us still. A Mother like
ours is more than a memory. She is a living presence."
Your
Mother is always with you. She's the whisper of the leaves as you walk
down the street; she's the smell of bleach in your freshly laundered
socks; she's the cool hand on your brow when you're not well. Your
Mother lives inside your laughter. And she's crystallized in every
tear drop. She's the place you came from, your first home; and she's
the map you follow with every step you take. She's your first love and
your first heartbreak, and nothing on earth can separate you. Not
time, not space...not even death!
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otes : On Mother
"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."
-- Marion C. Garretty
"A
mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows
no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all
that stands in its path."
-- Agatha Christie
"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
-- Mark Twain
"A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest."
-- Irish Proverb
"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother."
-- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
-- George Eliot.
"Most
of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by
dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows,
brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the
whole world."
-- Kate Douglas Wig
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in
"My mother was the
most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I
attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and
physical education I received from her."
-- George Washington (1732-1799)
"There
is no velvet so soft as a mother's lap, no rose as lovely as her smile,
no path so flowery as that imprinted with her footsteps."
-- Archibald Thompson
"Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs ... since the payment is pure love."
-- Mildred B. Vermont
"If I had a flower for each time I thought of My Mother, I could walk in my garden forever."
-- Unknown
"Men are what their mothers made them."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A
mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden,
fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when
friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles
thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endea v or by her
kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and
cause peace to
return to our hearts."
-- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
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