I lived with my "Big Mama", my maternal grandmother, who was Cherokee Indian, until I was close to nine years old, when Mama remarried.
Big Mama was just a storehouse of knowledge, and she is the one who told me that you can catch more flies with honey, than you can with vinegar.
In fact, she is the one who instilled in me the fact that life is just like that...sometimes, honey, and sometimes, vinegar.
For some folks it is more one than the other, and sometimes it's just plain not fair the way it lands on them, either.
I'd really like to hear about some of your experiences with either one, and I'll be happy to share mine with you.
Come back anytime, and let's talk.
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. ~Theodore Dalrymple
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~Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919)
~Amelia E. Barr (1831-1919)
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~William Shakespeare~
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4 comments:
Oh you don't want me to tell ya! LOL just kidding, Welcome to blogging! Looking forward to this!
Oh, you know I do, too!
Thanks for the welcome..and do drop by just any old time! LOL
Welcome, welcome! Boy oh boy, was I thinking about both honey and vinegar today.
But...funny thing is, I have good use for both. HMMMM.
I'm SO glad to see you up and running! It just makes me happy.
And I hope it works out that way for you, too. Time will tell for sure.
You're off to a great start. Jumping in is often the only hard part. For me at least, it was pretty easy after that.
I find it interesting that you had a Cherokee grandmother.
I had a Jewish grandmother from Riga/Latvia, and she was full of wisdom,too.
About the honey and vinegar.
You sound more like honey than vinegar, no bitterness there.
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