![]() Staring at photos on the computer doesn’t stir me as much as peering at them in an open album on my lap. Facebook is now offering a service called Past Book where, for a fee, they’ll create a physical album of photos you’ve uploaded to Facebook along with what you wrote in that box labelled “What’s on your mind?” They create it by the year. You have the setting staring you in the face. ![]() Peruse them and reflect on the circumstances of the pictures within. Therefore, for inspiration, leaf through a tome of quotations.Ĭrack open a photo album-the older the better. A story crafted from this kernel of inspiration might turn poignant, funny or simply interesting. A quotation like this humorous one gets my cerebral juices pumping, and I tick back to all the worst days of my life and how things did get better. Mark Twain said, “Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” Now that’s a visual image which illustrates that once you’ve experienced the worst, things are bound to improve. So the quote isn’t extolling family ties at all-and was more in keeping with my sentiments. Then one day, I learned the entire quote: “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.” In other words, blood shed in battle bonds soldiers more tightly than shared DNA. Yet the proverb led me to believe I was wrong. ![]() My late mother-in-law used to admonish us: "Blood is thicker than water." I’d counter that I felt close friendships were tighter than the happenstance relationship of being kin. ![]()
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