The Impossible<\/b><\/p>\n
Start by doing what\u2019s necessary; then do what\u2019s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.<\/p>\n
St. Francis of Assisi<\/p>\n
Tragedy of Life<\/b><\/p>\n
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.<\/p>\n
Richard L. Evans, Bits & Pieces, March 4, 1993, p. 2<\/p>\n
World Record<\/b><\/p>\n
Kim Linehan holds the world record in the Women\u2019s 1500-meter freestyle. According to her coach, Paul Bergen, the 18-year-old is the leading amateur woman distance swimmer in the world. Kim does endless exercises and swims 7 to 12 miles a day. The hardest part of her regimen? \u201cGetting in the water,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
From Texas Monthly, quoted in Reader\u2019s Digest, June 1981<\/p>\n
Humble <\/p>\n
\u2022 The first electric light was so dim that a candle was needed to see its socket.<\/p>\n
\u2022 One of the first steamboats took 32 hours to chug its way from New York to Albany, a distance of 150 miles.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Wilbur and Orville Wright\u2019s first airplane flight lasted only 12 seconds.<\/p>\n
\u2022 And the first automobiles traveled 2 to 4 miles per hour and broke down often. Carriages would pass them with their passengers shouting, \u201cGet a horse!\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
What\u2019s New?<\/b><\/p>\n
On a plaque marking Abraham Lincoln\u2019s birthplace near Hodgenville, Kentucky, is recorded this scrap of conversation:<\/p>\n
\u201cAny news down \u2018t the village, Ezry?\u201d \u201cWell, Squire McLain\u2019s gone t\u2019 Washington t\u2019 see Madison swore in, and ol\u2019 Spellman tells me this Bonaparte fella has captured most o\u2019 Spain.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s new out here, neighbor?\u201d \u201cNuthin\u2019 nuthin\u2019 a\u2019tall, \u2018cept fer a new baby born t\u2019 Tom Lincoln\u2019s. Nothin\u2019 ever happens out here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some events, whether birthdays in Hodgenville (or Bethlehem) or spiritual rebirth in a person\u2019s life, may not create much earthly splash, but those of lasting importance will eventually get the notice they deserve.<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Resource<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 Holy Sweat, Tim Hansel, Word, 1987, p.69<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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